WCP614

[1]

Broadstone, Dorset

March 2nd. 1904

Dear Mr. Sims,¹

Many thanks for the parcels of letters & drawings you have sent me. It will take me a good while to assort them all. I have looked through the drawings & find there are some of my own, with W. G. Wallace² put on them by my sister!³ There are also several little bits by my brother that I was wishing to see again, both only 2 or 3 out of the lot will be available to reproduce for my book.⁴ Also I see there are a lot of old letters agreements, bills &c. about [2] Mr. Websters⁵ affairs after his death which my sister had to settle. They are really of no interest now to any one except perhaps to Mrs. John Wallace⁶ in California. I think I will write and ask her if she cares to have them.

I have much pleasure in enclosing you a cheque for £.5. My last book just enabled me to clear off a debt on this house, so that I feel free again.

I shall be glad of any others old papers you have at your convenience. I suppose I [3] have now the bulk of them.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

P.S. There is a large pencil drawing of an old Elizabethan house with ivy all up the front, I think by my brother,⁶ do you know where ^{at what locality} it is? It looks like an old house at Hoddesdon, but it is too large for the one where my sister had her school.

A.R.W.