WCP6578

[1]

Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Dorset.

March 14th. 1913

Dear Mr. Marchant

We shall be pleased to see you on your way back to London, if convenient; and Mrs. Marchant also if she is with you.

I should much like to have some of the "books" you have promised me, say a dozen — as soon as any are ready to distribute, as I want to send copies to a few friends [2] abroad as soon as possible. If you have not left instructions to that effect please do so. I do not feel my mind settled to do anything till I have got some of them to go on with.

But I am enjoying myself sowing a grand present of ^{100 species of} seeds from Darjeeling in the Himalayas, about half of which are new to me, and worth raising & many very fine or interesting. [3] That is my holiday, and it is for ^the sender of the seeds that I am anxious to send the book first.

P. Snowden¹ seems to have made a splendid speech on the Labour Party's Amendment to the Address. If the "Citizen" is not too eulogistic, he is a genuine Orator, and produced an effect. But he proposed nothing immediately practical to stop starvation, as shown by an Insured man dying of starvation on the very same day!

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature] [4]²