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Broadstone, Wimborne

July 24th. 1904

T. H. Thomas Esq.

Dear Mr. Thomas

My wife & son, have been with us for a week at "Castell Mellte" which Mr. Neale kindly lent us, and his son Simmons, took us about in the motor-car for several excursions, which we greatly enjoyed. I want to send the latter a book as a memento. Will you please tell me if his name is as I have spelt it above?

Many thanks for the Trans[cription]. of the C.N.S. I have read your paper on folk-lore &c. but wonder you [2] do not refer to the "Corpse Candle¹" which I found by for the most common of all the weird stories told by Welsh people. I had some from eye-witnesses, & though at the time I could not accept the as facts, I can now.

I see there are two papers on glacial action in S[outh]. Wales, & the Vale of Neath is specially mentioned. This is one of my favourite subject and I noticed many good examples of moraines and glacial gravel.

Among ^the forever, what is called the Earth-work above "Castell-coch" is, I am pretty sure, a small [3] terminal moraine of the retreating glacier, and if a section were taken across it I feel pretty sure it would be found full of boulders from top to bottom. The steep edged, but flat-topped wooded bank through which the foot-path goes to Ystradfellte — is also a very clear lateral moraine.

I shall be glad to know if the supposed "Earth-work" has been held to be a "moraine" by any of the local-geologists. When I have read carefully the articles I will return you the volume.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

P.S. I also now ^think that the curved groves on Dinas Rock, are glacial flutings & have nothing to do with "folding" of the strata. Is that the conclusion of your geologists?

A. R. W.

I was much interested in the inscription on Maen Madoc drawn by you. Can you let me have a reduced copy of it? I should like to reproduce it in my book, & what is its supposed age?

A. R. W.