WCP606

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[in ARW’s hand] Answd

[encircled in pencil by unknown hand] Yunck

8 Palmerston Rd

West Hamstead N.W.

January 23^rd 1913

To D^r. Alfred Russell [sic] Wallace, O.M, F.R.G.S &c.

The Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Dorset

Mr Oscar Alex Yunck¹ hopes much & expects that, this missive finds the doyén of the scientific world, Victorian, Edwardian & Georgian well, as can be expected, & that the last decade for centenarianship will be fortified with all the surrounding congenial family atmosphere, by & through which the illustrious minded recipient will be able to dedicate the remaining species of the animate to further enlighten the at present rulers & legislators of this planet to devote their consciences for the [2] amelioration of the respective multitudes located on the acknowledged geographical terra firma.

The writer has been pained to hear this morning from the remaining link of the past by & through which he had the everlasting honor of knowing the intellectual recipient, that made M^r. Thos Sims, & his very able & life long lieutenant Miss Florence Howell is now physically speaking passed working for others & after his convalescences (if she illeg.) after a few weeks a recipient of Lloyd Georges 7/6 it will be this the union in which to make the jumping ground to eternity.

Which is not Humanity [Letter is incomplete.]