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WCP1397

Letter (WCP1397.1176)

[1]

Private

Berkeley Lodge

West Hill, Putney SW

Sept 4 85

My dear Sir

I have just returned from abroad, and found your letter. I have long ago retired from the Fortnightly Review, and the last number of Macmillan’s Magazine for which I am responsible, is already made up. I have no means therefore of ensuring the publication of your essay.1 You are quite right in thinking ill of the pamphlet form, and I should think that you would have no difficulty in securing the insertion of your [2] article in either the Nineteenth Century, or the Fortnightly. It will certainly give me great pleasure to have an opportunity of considering your speculations. You take a wide range of the causes of present trouble instead of the very narrow view to which politicians usually confine themselves.

Your's very truly | John Morley2 [signature]

1
This is presumably Wallace's Bad Times which was later published by Macmillan in November, see: Alfred Russel Wallace, Bad Times: An Essay on the Present Depression of Trade (London: Macmillan and Co., 1885).
2
Morley, John (1838-1923). Viscount Morley of Blackburn. British politician, writer and newspaper editor.

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Transcribed by Lester, Ahren [2014-07-03] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2014-07-03] Transcription checked by Clark, Andrew David [2014-07-31] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2024-12-24]

Please cite as “WCP1397,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1397