WCP5665

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Broadstone, Wimborne

June 15th. 1904

My dear Mr. Cockerell[,]

Whenever you can make it convenient we shall be much pleased to have a few days visit from yourself & wife. No doubt you will be some time near London which your wife will want to see in the height of the season, but after a week or two of that kind of sight-seeing perhaps a little change to the country will be pleasant & you can come down for a [2] week end from Friday to Monday or Tuesday. I suppose you will do a little touring to see the beauties of our little <islands?>, but old Dorsetshire is not to be despised for its rural charms, and Corfe Castle has few superiors in its way.

I would ask you to come for longer, but I have been very interrupted of late by visitors[,] interviewers &c. & have a book on hand which I want to be sure of finishing while I am able to keep [3] as well in health as I am now, but which I cannot expect to continue very much longer. As your wife is a botanist she will want to see as much as she can of our native flora & for that the time is now. We have also some interesting things in the garden.

Believe me │ Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]