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Broadstone, Wimborne

Jan[uar]^y. 10th 1907

J. H. Jackson Esq.

Dear Sir

Thanks for your good wishes & kind appreciation. I am glad to say I am still in very fair health.

Miss Chant[?], The Studio, Parkstone, Dorset has the best & most recent portraits of me, & will no doubt send you specimens if you write.

I am very much surprised [2] at your enquiry as to my writing any reminiscences. In Oct[obe]^r 1905, I published 2 vols. entitled "My Life"¹ — & I think from that date till January & February last every newspaper in the kingdom, almost, had more or less lengthy Reviews of it. How you can have missed seeing any of those Reviews is very curious. If you have a good public Library in Croydon no doubt you can get to [3] see the book.

Only in last ^this week's "Reader" Jan[uar]y. 12th². Sir A. Conan Doyle³ in a post card about the books that have impressed him most in the past year — names 4, and concludes — "These have impressed me most, together with Wallace's autobiography".

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]