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Roseneath,

Withdean Road,

Dyke Road,

Brighton.

Railway Station:

Preston Park.

Feby 6. 1909 —

To Dr A. R. Wallace.

Dear Sir

I have read with intense interest your letter² in to-day’s issue ("Daily News") & so rejoiced that you have made this public appeal with courage & fidelity to Righteousness, even instancing the iniquitous S. African War — (which English people should be reminded of continually, that they may think & learn lessons therefrom [2] & I rejoice too that you call upon all "True Womanhood" to unite with true Men to work & protest against the threatened abomination — the striding of the Military Apollyon over the field of Earth[.]

What are & have been the supine churches doing all these years in not educating the peoples in the root principles of the practical ramif [3] I have (for ^as one individual) long mourned the advancement of Science on the destructive plane, & the marked encouragement our professedly Christian government gives to scientists in this direction.

Oh! that a very loud voice may be raised throughout the length & breadth of the land in response to your timely appeal.

With much esteem | faithfully yrs | Mrs. E. M. Southey.³ [signature]

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