WCP666

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9, St Mark’s Crescent

N.W.

Nov^r 9th / [18]68

Dear Stainton

Thanks for your congratulations (if I should be congratulated) and for the extract.

As to Mr Skewing’s[?] remark about the blackbird & hairy caterpillars, — he states it as a fact repeatedly observed by himself, and I have long ceased to disbelieve any fact of which I have direct evidence, merely because I might consider it improbable. [2] If you are in town any of the evening’s named on the enclosed card we shall be very glad to see you.

Very truly yours | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

H[enry]. T[ibbats]. Stainton Esq.