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Parkstone, Dorset.

June 10th. 1899

Mr dear Clement Reid

Many thanks for your new book on the British Flora. I have just read your Introduction, & feel sure the rest will be interesting & will read it as soon as I can, but now is a very busy time. Should you be coming this way again pray give us a call. The maple seeds have not come up, but neither have many others, owing to unexampled cold & dry April & May,— and the drought still continues here. I have had a lot of orchids from [2] Ceylon brought me by young Coomara Swamy, & a large lot from the Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, so that I have plenty of work. I have also got the blue water-lily from S. Africa this spring, & have it now in flower in an out-door warmed tank.

Will is still in America, & is now on his way cycling from the Rockies to California.

Hoping yourself & Mrs Reid are quite well

Believe me | Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]