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WCP1399

Transcription (WCP1399.1178)

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Copy by E. Wilfred Evans

16, BROOK GREEN,

W.

15 Arundel Crescent

Weston super Mare

Feb 3/81

To Alfred R. Wallace Esq

Dear Sir

Thanks for your kind letter and your article on the Land.1 I will study the latter carefully. I would greatly prefer the total annihilation of Landlordism to the limiting of it to 1000 acres. (In towns I wished it limited to the narrowest point.) But I have thought that even the humblest [2] & best of the English aristocracy Should ?2 hold some landed estate especially to the dignity of their order; and I put a 1000 acres as the utmost for park & woods etc.

I hope that with me you see the danger that a mere facilitating of transference, such as the Manchester & Birm<ingha>m. school advocates, might rivet our present vicious system on us.

I am | Truly yours | F. W. Newman2 [signature]

1
Wallace, A. R. 1881. Nationalisation of the land. Mark Lane Express 51: 1351.
2
Newman, Francis William (1805-1897). British writer and anti-vaccinationist.

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Transcribed by Lester, Ahren [2013-08-12] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-08-12] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2024-12-24]

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