WCP6564

[1]¹

May 9th. 1913

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Dorset.

Dear Mr. Marchant

I write at once as to your proposal about enlarging the Labour Tract. This is quite impossible for me, as I told you at the time you purchased it. I could not do it without bringing in matter which I am reserving for Fisher Unwin's volume, which I have a signed Agreement to write and which will be difficult enough to do well [2] as it is. I have done all I promised to do corrected the proofs & enlarged it a little.

I can just now, hardly do anything, as I fell down & strained my back, & can hardly move without pain.

I will write shortly about the List of Papers for the "Darwin Wallace" book, for which I have found a quantity of material.

Thanks for the stamped [3] "Agreement."

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature] [4]