WCP3336

[1]

Windmill Cottage

Hog Hill

Icklesham

near Rye

Esteemed Friend, no wonder you can perciev [sic] no improovment [sic] in human nature when the allies [sic], so far from taking your noble advice to form a Balkan republic, ar [sic] now fihting [sic] each other about the division of their spoils, like greedy bois [sic]. What a siht [sic] for angels and devils! Hav [sic] you any more copis [sic] to spare of your peny [sic] pamflet [sic] on coöperativ [sic] colonis [sic]? If not, do you no [sic] where I [sic] coud [sic] procure som [sic]? But human nature spoils everithing [sic]. What with white slavery, vivisection, and the devilris [sic] practist [sic] on litt [sic] scool [sic] girls by brutal masters it is enuf [sic] to make the [2] most optimistic despair. The stupidity of sin is worse than its wickedness.¹

From

Evacustes A. Phipson

To

Prof. A. R. Wallace

Broadstone,

near Wimborne

Dorset.