I keep moderately well, but always feel half-dead, yet manage to work
away on vegetable physiology, as I think that I should die outright if I
had nothing to do.--Believe me yours very sincerely,
CH. DARWIN
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_Walron Edge, Duppas Hill, Croydon. September 23, 1878._
Dear Darwin,--Many thanks for your signature and good wishes. I have
some hopes of success, but am rather doubtful of the Committee of the
Corporation who will have the management, for they have just decided
after a great struggle in the Court of Common Council that it is to be a
rotatory Committee, every member of the Council (of whom there are 200)
coming on it in succession if they please. They evidently look upon it
as a Committee which will have great opportunities of excursions,
picnics, and dinners, at the expense of the Corporation, while the
improvement of the Forest will be quite a secondary matter.
I am very glad to hear you are tolerably well. It is all I can say of
myself.--Believe me yours very faithfully,
ALFRED R. WALLACE.
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_Down, Beckenham, Kent.
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