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Copy by E. Wilfred Evans

16, Brook Green,

W.

15 Arundel Crescent

Weston super Mare

Feb[ruary] 3/[18]81

To Alfred R. Wallace Esq

Dear Sir

Thanks for your kind letter and your article on the Land. 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 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. Newman [signature]