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NATIONAL TELEPHONE NO 129.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS,

“STRADLING, CIRENCESTER.”

ALFRED STRADLING,

ENGINEER.

Waterloo Motor Works,

Cirencester.

Jan^y 2^nd 1909

Dear Sir,

Thank you very much for your kind letter¹ it has confirmed my opinion of Lewis Ford.² I will get notes from the references you so kindly give one & be in a position to reply very definitely to him in future. Yes, I know Lady Anne Blunt³ was a Flat Earthite (I think ‘Flat’ is rather apropos of the society) Ford has quoted her many times as an authority for his (mis) statements & wanted to send me her writings, but I have little time for reading nonsense, & had he not most unjustly attacked those for whom I have great admiration I should not have been drawn into the correspondence & I feel rather grieved that I have unintentionally raked up an old worry, which you had gladly almost forgotten.

Many thanks for your little Booklet — I am very interested in the Socialist problem, but I cannot go as far as you do — nor do I believe it possible for England to live peaceably under such conditions, until the moral standard of human nature is very much raised — & this you cannot do by act of Parliament.

Yours faithfully | Alfred Stradling⁴ [signature]

D^r A R Wallace

Wimborne