WCP6975

[1] [p. 42]

24, Leighton Road, Kentish Town, London, July 25, 1873

To A. R. Wallace, Esq.

Sir,— In taking a surveyor with me from Town, I have no intention of excluding "a professional surveyor or engineer of the locality, say of Lynn or Wisbeach," as you remark in your letter of to-day. I am anxious that the whole matter shall be thoroughly satisfactory to both parties; and as the experiment to be tried is one without complications, I do not hesitate to ask you to name your own surveyor. I simply claim the right to make collateral observations, and to publish the general as well as the particular result.

Messrs. Dillon & Co., of St Paul's Church Yard, have kindly promised to furnish me with one of their very excellent four-foot telescopes, than which no better instrument for the purpose can be employed. If your friend, Mr. Coulcher of Downham, will select for you a local surveyor, and he will give me his address, I will write to him to fix the exact time for the observations to be made.

Yours, &c., | "PARALLAX"