With best wishes for the speedy recovery of your health, I remain, my dear Mr. Darwin, yours very faithfully,
ALFRED R. WALLACE.
Down, Bromley, Kent, S.E. January 1, 1864.
Dear Wallace,—I am still unable to write otherwise than by dictation. In a letter received two or three weeks ago from Asa Gray he writes: "I read lately with gusto Wallace's exposé of the Dublin man on Bee cells, etc."[38]
Now though I cannot read at present, I much want to know where this is published, that I may procure a copy. Further on Asa Gray says (after speaking of Agassiz's paper on Glaciers in the Atlantic Magazine and his recent book entitled "Method of Study"): "Pray set Wallace upon these articles." So Asa Gray seems to think much of your powers of reviewing, and I mention this as it assuredly is laudari a laudato.
I hope you are hard at work, and if you are inclined to tell me I should much like to know what you are doing.
It will be many months, I fear, before I shall do anything.
Pray believe me yours very sincerely,
CH. DARWIN.