WCP3178

Letter (WCP3178.3146)

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The Independent

130 Fulton St.

New York.

EDITORIAL ROOMS.

Telephone, 3928 CORTLANDT.

Cable Address, INDEFULT, NEW YORK.

March 27, 1899.

Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace,

London, England.

My dear Mr. Wallace: -

Everybody for the next year or so will be writing on the glorious achievements

of the century that is about to close. I see in the American Fabian that you Have been quoted as saying that the greatest failure of the nineteenth century has been the desire strife for social equality.

Can you not write a short article, like the one you sent us not long ago, on that

topic? I am sure it would command a great deal of attention.

Yours very truly, | Hamilton Holt1 [signature] Office Editor.

Holt, Hamilton (1872-1951). American educator, politician, author; editor of The Independent (New York).

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