In want of anything better to do I have been grinding away at a book on the Geography of Australia for Stanford for the last six months.
Hoping you are in good health, and with my best compliments to Mrs. Darwin and the rest of your family, believe me yours very faithfully,
ALFRED R. WALLACE
Down, Beckenham, Kent. September 16, 1878.
My dear Wallace,—I return the paper signed, and most heartily wish that you may be successful, not only for your own sake, but for that of Natural Science, as you would then have more time for new researches.
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
Walron Edge, Duppas Hill, Croydon. September 23, 1878.