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WCP3773

Letter (WCP3773.3686)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

Septr. 26th. 1899

My dear Mr. Carpenter1

I do not expect I shall write much more except perhaps a kind of autobiography, and I therefore wish to gather together in a couple of volumes my scattered articles on Scientific & Social matters. I should like to include the article on "Re-occupation of the Land"2 — contributed to your Forecasts3 &c. Will there be any objection to my doing so. It is [2] rather soon after the issue of your volume, but I do not suppose it will at all affect its sale, and my volume may not appear for a year or two. I hope the "Forecasts" sold sufficiently to produce something towards the good cause.

Believe me | yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Carpenter, Edward (1844-1929). Campaigner for homosexual equality and socialist writer.
2
Wallace, A. R. 1897. Re-occupation of the Land: The only solution to the problem of the unemployed in Carpenter, Forecasts of the Coming Century by a Decade of Writers. [pp. 9-26].
3
Carpenter, Edward, et al. 1897. Forecasts of the Coming Century by a Decade of Writers. Labour Press.

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Transcribed by Linden, Tess [2013-08-20] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-08-20] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

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