Broadstone, Wimborne
Dec[embe]r 17th. 1905
Dear Mr. Cockerell
Many thanks for your very kind present of Kropotikin's Life1. I have begun reading it with very great pleasure. His early life — its childhood I mean — allowing for immense difference of rank, wealth & country — was, in essentials (education play &c.) not unlike my own, & affords another indication of how wonderfully alike human nature under [2] all external changes.
I am also reading with great delight that wonderfully clever entertaining & deeply instructive book — No. 5 John Street, by Whiteing2.
Never have I seen the contrasts of wealth & poverty in London portrayed with such insight & integrity. Perhaps you know the author.
Yours very sincerely | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]
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Broadstone, Wimborne.
Dec. 17th 1905
Dear Mr. Cockerell,
Many thanks for your very kind present of Kropotkin's1 Life.2 I have begun reading it with very great pleasure. His early life — its childhood I mean — allowing for immense difference of rank, wealth and country — was, in essentials (education, play, etc) not unlike my own, and affords another indication of how wonderfully alike is human nature under all external changes.
I am also reading with great delight that wonderfully clever, entertaining and deeply instructive book No.5 John Street3 by Whiteing.4 Never have I seen the contrasts of wealth and poverty [2]5 in London portrayed with such insight and intensity. you know the author.
Yours very sincerely | signed Alfred R. Wallace
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[1]1
Broadstone, Wimborne
Dec 17th 1905
Many thanks for your kind present of Kropotkin's2 life. I have begun reading it with very great pleasure. His early life, its childhood I mean, allowing for immense difference of rank, wealth and country —[2] was in essentials (education, play etc.) not unlike my own and afford another indication of how wonderfully alike is human nature under all external changes.3
I am also reading with great delight that wonderfully clever entertaining and deeply instructive book No.5 John Street4 by Whiteing.5Never have I seen the contrasts of wealth and poverty in London portrayed with such insight and intensity. Perhaps you know the author.6
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[1]1 [p. 211]
Broadstone, Wimborne
Dec. 17th, 1905
Dear Mr. Cockerell
Many thanks for your very kind present of Kropotkin's Life. I have begun reading it with very great pleasure. His early life—its childhood I mean—allowing for immense difference of rank, wealth and country—was, in essentials (education, play, &c) not unlike my own, and affords another indication of how wonderfully alike is human nature under all external changes.
I am also reading with great delight that wonderfully clever, entertaining and deeply instructive book No 5 John Street by Whiteing. Never have I seen the contrasts of wealth and poverty in London portrayed with such insight and intensity. Perhaps you know the author.
Yours very sincerely
Alfred R. Wallace
Note Appearing in the Original Work
1. Prince Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin. Memoirs of a Revolutionist, 1900. [on p. 211]
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