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Lilley House

Lea Bridge Road

Leyton.

March 15. 1894

Dear Dr. Russel Wallace:

I did not write back ^immediately, for two reasons — first, I have left to the last moment my 'Vox Clamantium'¹ blast (and pray tell me, whether it should wake me up to write more ^elsewhere) and secondly, I understand you when were busy.

Do you want the proof back or will you kindly add on after it is set up by the printers. I dont [sic] [2] know if they will go on. as things come in, or whether they will go at it when all is to hand. I will write tonight to the publishers.

I must study your scheme again. It seems to me much like what I suggested in my book Retrenchment² 1887.

We take no notice of Harus. I should say that a good [3] editor would like fresh thought. There is almost room for a new monthly which should be open to the most daring and go aheadish thing. We are on the eve of a great crisis. Lord Rosebery³ will either make a mess of it or "ride on the storm" and leap and win.

I dont like his turf politics nor his imperial [4] 'rot' — to use a word of yours.

Why there is so much outcry about his Home Rule speech I dont know — since before he was always behind on this matter.

What a nice little thing Labour chair hath done. I shall force the Liberals on. Arnold's⁴ Free Land League I'll mash up, God helping me. I named as well & all my mother (she is dead — when I was a child and a good woman) as the earth.

Very truly yours | Andrew Reid⁵[signature]

Now is the time!

Vox Clamantium is being printed off | Who could write well on the Land Question with our ideas?⁶