DARWIN.
I hope to Heaven that politics will not replace natural science.
I know too well how atrociously bad my handwriting is.
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_The Dell, Grays, Essex. December 6, 1874._
Dear Darwin,--Many thanks for your kindness in sending me a copy of your
new edition of the "Descent." I see you have made a whole host of
additions and corrections which I shall have great pleasure in reading
over as soon as I have got rid of my horrid book on Geographical
Distribution, which is almost driving me mad with the amount of drudgery
required and the often unsatisfactory nature of the result. However, I
must finish with it soon, or all the part first done will have to be
done over again, every new book, either as a monograph, or a
classification, putting everything wrong (for me).
Hoping you are in good health and able to go on with your favourite
work, I remain yours very sincerely,
ALFRED B. WALLACE.
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_The Dell, Grays, Essex. July 21, 1875._
Dear Darwin,--Many thanks for your kindness in sending me a copy of your
new book.
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