You are now one of my oldest friends, and one with whom [pg 215] I most sympathise; and I only regret that we have seen so little of each other.—Yours very faithfully,
ALFRED R. WALLACE.
TO MR. E. SMEDLEY
Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset. October 2, 1911.
Dear Mr. Smedley,—I am quite astonished at your wasting your money on an advertising astrologer. In the horoscope sent you there is not a single definite fact that would apply to you any more than to thousands of other men. All is vague, what "might be," etc. etc. It is just calculated to lead you on to send more money, and get in reply more words and nothing else....—Yours very truly,
ALFRED R. WALLACE.
A.R. WALLACE ADMIRING EREMUS ROBUSTUS about 1905.