Parkstone, Dorset
Jul. 21. 1897.
My dear Mitten,
I send you the lot of Jamaica[?] moss,— & a little Singapore. We have got rain at last which we wanted bad. The red waterlilies are fine this year & the frogbird has filled up all the spaces & is flowering beautifully. It looks very pretty. I wish I could get the Villarsia to flower but have failed so far. My Burma lily which I thought was dead last year is now 6 feet high & showing buds. Also a small one. Some L. auratures I put in are showing finely for [2] flower. The Calochorth also have been finer than ever I have had them.
We did not have a letter from Will last week, but are expecting one today or tomorrow. They were working on a railway. I enclose his last postcard & letter, which please return by Flora, if not before.
I thought the land was actually purchased or agreed to be purchased by the Parish. How is it that there is any difficulty now? After all [3] the trouble & expense you have had it will be too bad if you do not put it after all. With such a high & airy situation I do not see that there can be any possible injury to health with reasonable precautions.
I put on a lot of roots of the Convoloules[?] but all the leaves have died & I hardly expect to see them again.
Yours very sincerely | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]
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