Dear Wallace

I have just bethought me & it is strange that I had not thought of it before, that my second son² is quite capable of doing the job about which I have written to you,³ & I am certain that he w^d like to do it, especially if I gave him a present. I I gathered an impression from your note to Bates that you did not care much about undertaking the work;⁴ & perhaps you will care still less when you hear how dull & bothersome a one it is.⁵ If so I will get my son to undertake it. If on the other hand you wish for it, all that I wrote will of course, hold good. In any case I beg you to excuse me for the trouble which I have thus caused you. If you have written to me before you receive this wd you kindly let me have a post-card—telling me how the case stands.

In Haste yours very sincerely | C. D.