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The Hamilton, Washington

Jan^y 14th, 1887

Dear Mr Putnam

Many thanks for your kind present of the set of your Reports & other papers. I enclose also official receipt for them. What I saw in your Museum, in the Smithsonian Museum here, & in the American Museum at New York, have interested & surprised me more than any thing I have yet seen in America.

The impression made upon me is that in America the Stone age has had a larger and more continuous development among people who have reached a higher [2] state of social organisation than in Europe where the comparatively early introduction of bronze & iron seems to have checked its development. I shall hope to devote what time I have to spare to a study of the collections here & of the literature connected with it.

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

F.W. Putnam Esq.