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WCP4466

Letter (WCP4466.4774)

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Pen y bryn, St. Peter’s Road, Croydon.

Jany. 6th 18801

Dear Mr. Meldola2

I beg to acknowledge the receipt of a cheque for five guineas from the E. F. & C. of E. N. F.C.!3 and to thank you & the Committee for the same.

My letter to the "Daily News"4 proposing a partial application of my views on the Nationalisation of the Land to Ireland, appeared yesterday. I send you a cutting in case you have not seen it, & you can give it to any one interested. The Editor5 has cut out some rather important passages.

I am glad to see Nelson6 gets it rather hot in the D. News this morning. He got £.500 a year added to his salary & a bonus of £2000 or £3.000 expressly for his services [2] in the Epping Forest business!

Auberon Herbert’s7 letter on the Transvaal is admirable. I think advanced liberals should petition on the subject. It is simply abominable that we should at the present day actually take away the freedom from a people of European race who claim & defend it & have always done so.

Yours faithfully| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
The year should be 1881. See note 4.
2
Meldola, Raphael (1849-1915). British chemist and entomologist.
3
Epping Forest & County of Essex Naturalists Field Club.
4
See https://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S334C.htm
5
Hill, Frank Harrison (1830-1910). British Journalist and Editor of the Daily News 1871-86.
6
Nelson has not been identified.
7
Herbert, Auberon Edward William Molyneux (1838-1906). British writer, theorist, philosopher, and 19th century individualist.

Editorial information

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Revision history

Transcribed by Lord, Annette [2012-07-19] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP4466,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4466