WCP620

[1]

FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM,

CAMBRIDGE.

Mar 23 1909

Dear Dr. Wallace,

I have received your packet safely containing the MS of your address to the Linnean Society last year and 8 autograph letters from Darwin. These a[re] of the utmost interest and the committee will be very grateful to you for sending them. I am not sure[?] whether you realize that the Darwin Celebration may[?] not take place until the second half of June. When the exhibition of Darwinian will be arranged in Christ’s College. The [2] letters will remain meanwhile under lock and key in my desk here. Or, if you would prefer to have them back, I will send them and will ask for them again when the exhibition is being taken in hand.

If you really attach small importance to the manuscript of your address I wonder whether you would let me have it in exchange for a £5 note—I should price it very much in that cafe, and should have it nobly clad in the best [1 word illeg.].

Yours very truly | Sydney C. Cockerell [signature]