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Broadstone, Wimborne.

Oct[obe]^r. 31st. 1905

H. F. Jones Esq.

Dear Sir

Thanks for the memorials of S. Butler¹, especially as the contain two portraits of him.

"The Psalm of Montreal" has been a delight to me & to many friends to whom I have read it, and I therefore wished to make it known to a wider circle of readers by giving it in my book.

I read "Erewhon Revisited" [2] a few moths back, & found it even more fantastic & improbable but less instructive than "Erewhon" itself — which was a masterpiece of satire.

I never heard of "the way of all Flesh" —

Many thanks for the date of the of the séance at Mr. Marshman's which I had no note of — also for pointing at the stupid error in date of Butler's letter which was 1879 — 14 years after the séance, so that the impression, if it had made any. had probably died away. My recollection of it was ^such that, at the time, I hardly think he would have called it "imprudent humbug".

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]²