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Parkstone, Dorset.

March 1st, 1900

My dear Clement Reid

Owing to the last bit of open fields & heath near us having been sold for building — & other causes — we are thinking of finding a new home, & are searching for places where we can get country & a little land cheap. Among others I am shortly going to see an old Manor House at Aston Tirrold between Goring and Didcot Junction, but I see by the Geolog. map (Ramsays) that it lies just at the junction of the Chalk & Upper Greensand or Gault [blue clay],— & I must keep off clay. Can you tell me whether there are [2] surface gravels there? It is just on the edge of the 200 feet contour line.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]