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Broadstone, Wimborne

March 28th. 1908

Dear Sir

In reply to yours of yesterday, I do not think I can undertake to write such an article as you suggest, and I hardly think it is advisable on general grounds that I should do so.

I have already written so much on the subject that I should be repeating myself. The first 5 chapters of my [2] "Darwinism" contain what I have to say on the general subject of "Natural Selection", and my chapter on "The Debt of Science to Darwin", forming the last chapter of my "Natural Selection & Tropical Nature" gives a general and still more popular ^{and condensed} view of Darwin's work & Theory; and I could certainly write nothing so good now, even if I could give due attention to it, which, having [3] as much work in hand as I am likely to get through, I should not be able to do.

Should you think any portion of that chapter suitable for your purpose I should have no objection to your making use of it and I think my publishers, Mess^rs Macmillan, would not object.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Prof. A. C. Seward