WCP2658

Letter (WCP2658.2548)

[1]

Commons Preservation Society1

1, Great College Street, Westminster, S.W.

23rd April 1884.2

Dear Sir,

Mr. Bryce MP3. (the Chairman of our Committee) has asked me to send you a short statement reflecting the Law as to Roadside waste, about which there appears to be much misapprehension.

I have now the pleasure of enclosing [for] you such a [2]4 statement5.

I am | Yours faithfully | Edward W. Fithian[signature]6 | Sec[retar]y

Alfred R. Wallace, Esq[uire]

Frith Hill,

Godalming7.

1
The Commons Preservation Society was founded in 1865 as a campaigning group to protect public rights of way and open spaces. It is now called the Open Spaces Society.
2
The date is written on a printed dotted line below the address. The digits "18" are also printed.
3
Bryce, James, Viscount Bryce (1838-1922). Jurist, historian and politician. Chair of the Commons Preservation Society. Bryce was elected to parliament for the Tower Hamlet constituency in London in 1880. In 1885 he was returned for Aberdeen and remained an MP until 1907.
4
Text in another hand in the top right corner reads "88".
5
Wallace referred to his contact with Bryce, and to this statement, in his presidential address to the third annual meeting of the Land Nationalisation Society, presented in June 1884 and printed in the Society's annual report for 1883-4. S371a:1884, p. 8.
6
. Fithian, Edward (b.1845). Administrator and Secretary of The Commons Preservation Society.
7
Wallace lived in Godalming from 1881 to 1889 and designed and built his house there, Nutwood Cottage, Frith Hill, Godalming.

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Transcribed by Ghosh, Susan [2015-05-21] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-05-21] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Please cite as “WCP2658,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2658