WCP5455

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CORFE VIEW,

PARKSTONE,

DORSET.

Nov[embe]^r. 6th. 1891

My dear Sir

I must apologise for not replying to your letter sooner but I received it at a friend’s house & on my return here I found so many letters to reply to & other work to do that yours lay forgotten in my pocket book.

I am sorry to have to decline taking the chair at Prince Kropotkin’s¹ lecture, because I am living [2] 120 miles from London, & never come up except on pressing business. Had I been living in London I would have gladly shown my appreciation of Prince Kropotkin’s writings & sufferings in the cause of human progress.

Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace — [signature]

T. J. Cobden-Sanderson Esq.²

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