Alfred Russel Wallace 



this point : I now look at intellectual companionship as 

 quite a secondary matter, and should my good stars ever 

 send me an affectionate, good-tempered and domestic wife, 

 I shall care not one iota for accomplishments or even for 

 education. 



I cannot write more now. I do not yet know how long I 

 shall be here, perhaps a month. Then ho ! for England I — In 

 haste, yours most affectionately, Alfred E. Wallace. 



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