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61 Penrhyn Avenue

Litherland

Liverpool

Jan, 13^th 1908

Dr Alfred R. Wallace

Dear Sir,

I hope you will not mind my writing to tell you how much I, for one, appreciate your pamphlet "The Remedy for Unemployment".² I had no idea there was such a book as the one you so generously & fully describe, & I shall [2] endeavour to get the book and read it. The accompanying cutting will explain the very slight amount of help I have been able to render to the cause of the unemployed, and I have become each week more convinced of the total inadequacy of charity in removing the troubles of the poor. I have seen delicate men struggling to do a bit of dock-labouring, miserable women whose whole [3]] thought seemed to be how to scrape together the rent of a hovel, & spiritless half starved children crouching over a fire of cinders & ashes. I have felt like apologising for offering the few coupons doled out to me for them, but I had no money to give & could only give a little time & sympathy.

You have made a noble & I trust [4] successful appeal on behalf of the thousands of downtrodden in this rich land, and I am proud to offer you my personal thanks and respect.

Yours faithfully | Emma L. Harkness³ [signature]