WCP6527

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset

Oct^r 7th, 1892

Dear Mr Davies

If I were still living at Godalming I sh^d have <had> much pleasure in giving you another lecture, but to come to you, on purpose, and in the winter, is really more than I can promise.

I have also had to refuse invitations to lecture at Haslemere, & at other places, all for very good reasons to the inviters. I hope you [2] and Mrs Davies, & all your family, are in good health. Violet is at Liverpool in charge of a Kindergarten attached to a Girls' High School & Will is at Newcastle-on-Tyne learning the practical work of Electrical Engineering with a large firm — Mess^rs Holmes — where he is apprenticed for two years, & seems to like the place, the work, & the workmen very much. He has to [3] be at the Shops every morning at 6 o'clock, & work the regular hours, which itself is a good training in real work.

With best wishes | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

[Here appears a portrait photograph of ARW, captioned "A.R.Wallace"]