WALLACE.
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_The Dell, Grays, Essex. November 7, 1875._
Dear Darwin,--Many thanks for your beautiful little volume on "Climbing
Plants," which forms a most interesting companion to your "Orchids" and
"Insectivorous Plants." I am sorry to see that you have not this time
given us the luxury of cut edges.
I am in the midst of printing and proof-sheets, which are wearisome in
the extreme from the mass of names and statistics I have been obliged to
introduce, and which will, I fear, make my book insufferably dull to all
but zoological specialists.
My trust is in my pictures and maps to catch the public.
Hoping yourself and all your family are quite well, believe me yours
very faithfully,
ALFRED R. WALLACE.
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_Down, Beckenham, Kent. June 5, 1876._
My dear Wallace,--I must have the pleasure of expressing to you my
unbounded admiration of your book,[100] though I have read only to page
184--my object having been to do as little as possible while resting. I
feel sure that you have laid a broad and safe foundation for all future
work on Distribution.
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