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From:
Arnold D. Taylor
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 January 1913
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/119
Summary:

Congratulating ARW on reaching his 90th birthday, with news of Taylor's dealings with landlords and efforts to improve the housing of the poor in Padstowe, articles in The Daily News & Leader by Harold Spender; anecdote about a large family living in one room where the mother was giving birth and the father suffering from pleurisy, in a house surrounded by uncultivated land which could provided work and housing; Railway strike; "Knot" strike; plight of agricultural workers.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project