WCP4132

[1]

Broadstone, Wimborne

June 25th 1905

Edward Clodd Esq.

Dear Sir

In the year 1896 I heard Mr. Le Gallienne give a lecture at Davos on the Minor Poets, and he quoted some lines of Grant Allen’s which were a kind of indictment of the Deity. Wishing to refer to this I obtained G.[rant] A.[llen]’s volume of poems The Lower Slopes, but it is not included. I then wrote to [2] Mr. Le Gallienne at Old Manor, Chiddingfold the address given in last years Literary Year Book, but the letter was returned me— "Gone away no address". I therefore trouble you as a friend of Grant Allen’s to lend me if you have it a copy of that poem, or inform me where I can obtain it,— or failing this give me Mr. Le Gallienne’s [3] present address.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]