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WCP2132

Letter (WCP2132.2022)

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Holmesfield

nr Sheffield

1 Oct' 99

Dear Mr. Wallace,

There is no doubt you are at liberty & welcome to republish your art: on "Reoccupation of the Land"1 from Forecasts. We are grateful to you for the use of it, & even if we could make any objection to its republn. there wd. be no reason for doing so — since the wd. not do any [2] harm to Forecasts.

Forecasts has done fairly well — considering the late low ebb of socialistic literature — sold some 2000 or 3000 copies I think.

May you be long with us yet to hearten us up in the good cause! I am in Norwich for a day or two just now to [3] welcome Fred Charles2 — one of the Walsall Anarchists just out of prison.

Do you see anything of Casey3 nowadays?

With hearty greetings | yrs sincerely | Edwd. Carpenter4 [signature]

1
. Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1897. Forecasts of the coming century, by a decade of writers: Re-occupation of the land, the only solution to the problem of the unemployed, [pp. 9-26]. Manchester: The Labour Press Limited.
2
Charles, Fred (c1860-1934). British anarchist; one of the Walsall Anarchists in 1892.
3
Comerford-Casey (formerly Casey), George Edward (1846-1912). Anglican priest, teacher, botanist and author.
4
Carpenter, Edward (1844-1929). Campaigner for homosexual equality and socialist writer.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2132.2022)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Benny, Ruth [2014-11-12] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2014-11-12] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2025-03-03]

Please cite as “WCP2132,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2132