Letter to Raphael Meldola, by Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace : Alfred Wallace : A. R. Wallace :
Russel Wallace : Alfred Russell Wallace (sic)

Letter to Raphael Meldola (S623ab: 1905)

Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: A letter to Raphael Meldola, congratulating him on the 25^th anniversary of the founding of the Essex Field Club. Read at a dinner held on 9 December 1905, and then printed on page 125 of volume 14 of The Essex Naturalist. To link directly to this page, connect with: http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S623AB.htm

Broadstone, Wimborne
Nov. 4th, 1905.

My dear Meldola,

It seems only the other day that you started the "Essex"--or, rather, I think the Epping Forest--Field Club, and now you are celebrating its Jubilee of 25 years.

I heartily congratulate you and Mr. Cole on the great success of your work. I look back upon my few rambles with the Club in its early days with great pleasure, while the "fungus forays" were as delightful as they were instructive. I only regret that distance and other occupations have for so many years debarred me from the pleasure of attending your meetings and excursions.

With my very best wishes for the success of the Club and for the prolongation of its life into the remotest conceivable futurity,

Believe me, yours very sincerely,
Alfred R. Wallace.

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