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The Independent

130 Fulton St.

New York

Editorial Rooms

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 Holt [signature]

Office Editor.