WCP3779

Letter (WCP3779.3693)

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Frith Hill, Godalming

July 11th. 1886

Dear Miss Massey1

I send you the copy of "the Earth for All". It was printed in "the Radical" newspaper and also in the Annual Report (2 or 3 years ago) of our Society, & I thought your father2 had received a copy of the latter.

Please tell him how much I admire & sympathise with his Election Songs, & how sorry I am they seem to have had so little effect. But [2] there is no doubt the question has been brought forward too tho recently for people to be reconciled to such a radical measure as Gladstones,3 though its having been brought forward will make some such measure (I hope even a better one) inevitable before long.

Believe me | yours faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Massey has not been identified.
Massey, Gerald (1828-1907). British poet and self-styled Egyptologist.
Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898). British politician; Prime Minister 1868-74, 1880-5, 1886, 1892-4; Chancellor of the Exchequer 1852-5, 1859-66, 1873-4, 1880-2.

Please cite as “WCP3779,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3779