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295 WASHINGTON STREET,

Opposite The Old South.

Boston, Mass.,

Dec. 18, 1885

Dear Sir, —

I bought your book on "Bad Times"² in a book shop here, and liked it so much that I wrote the enclosed little notice. It is a hopeful sign to me that English gentlemen begin to write on affairs without much regard to the dreary, dismal, ill-logical and wholly unscientific dogmas of Ricards and Hill. For this reason I was much pleased with Mr. J. K. Ingram’s³ article on Political Economy in the Encyclopaedia Britanica: it was historical not dogmatic. And it is for scientific reasons that I view a divorce of wealth and political economy from ethics as fraught with mischief. I thank you sincerely and heartily for your book. If it was not immodest, I should have called your attention to one or two errors of fact.

Most truly yours | C. W. Ernst⁴ [signature]

Mr. A. R. Wallace