Holly House, Barking. E.
Decr 13th. 1870
Dear Stainton
I am not preparing a reply to A[ndrew]. Murray1. That must be done, if it worth doing at all, by a person well up in the affinities of Coleoptera.
I am simply taking his paper2 as the "pièce de resistance" of my Ent[omological] Soc[iety] Address3 in which I shall try to supplement his paper by some facts which he has overlooked.
I heard yesterday4 from [2] Darwin5 that he had a written on mimicry & from his & your account of it[,] that paper6 will be still less worth answering.
Believe me | Yours very truly│ Alfred R. Wallace [signature]
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