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From:
Jesse Collings
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 January 1881
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 f. 26
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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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Has received cheque for five guineas from Epping Forest & County of Essex Naturalists Field Club. About his letter on "Nationalisation of the Land" in the Daily News. Criticism of Nelson, who received £500 p.a. on top of his salary, plus £2000-£3000 expressly for his services re. Epping Forest. Views on Transvaal. "It is simply abominable that we should at the present day actually take away freedom from a people of European race who claim and defend it and have always done so!"