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WCP1503

Letter (WCP1503.1282)

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19. 8. 841

20, High Street, Lowestoft.

August 18th. 1884

Dear Mr. Windust2

The enclosed has been forwarded to me here. Please attend to it. Will you also please send a copy of — (1) Report and address, (2) "The How and Why" &c. (3) Programme, (4) Rules — to — Grant Allen3 Esq., The Nook, Dorking. I saw him lately and I think he will probably join us.

Please write on all copies of "The Why and the How of Land Nationalisation"4 — you send out — "A Reply to Prof. Fawcett"5 — which shd have been printed on the cover.

Yours faithfully| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

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P.S. I have had a letter from Mr McLardy,6 Provisional Secretary of the Scottish Land Restoration League asking for reasons for my criticism of this method, in my Address, and I have written him somewhat fully on the subject. He says they are thoroughly in concert and will modify their programme if I can show them they are wrong.

ARW.

I am here till Sept. 4.

If any papers or letters arrive at the office, and to you or Mr Ley for me, please open, and if only official do not send to me but reply to yourself.

ARW.

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18.8.84

A. R. Wallace

1
The date was probably written by Windust. There are two more written on the left margin on page 1.
2
Windust, C. A (-). Honorary Assistant Secretary of the Land Nationalisation Society, of which ARW was President.
3
Allen, Charles Grant Blairfindie (1848-1899). Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England and a public promoter of evolution.
4
Wallace, A. R. 1883. The "why" and the "how" of land nationalisation, I. Macmillan's Magazine 48 (287): 357-368; (288): 485-493.
5
Fawcett, Henry (1833-1884). British academic, statesman and economist.
6
McLardy, David (-1923). First secretary of the Scottish Land Restoration League.

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Revision history

Transcribed by Moody, Liz [2013-04-08] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-04-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2025-03-03]

Please cite as “WCP1503,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1503