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Parkstone, Dorset.

August 16^th 1900

The Countess of Warwick

Dear Madam

I think my friend Prof[essor] Meldola is wrong in supposing that I wrote on Cooperation many years ago.

My only writings bearing directly on Cooperation that I can call to mind, are, a very short article in The Labour Annual for 1899 — p.105, advocating cooperation instead of strikes, which I think, in a few words, goes to the root of the matter; — and the first paper in "Forecasts of the Coming Century," 1897 [2] (The Clarion Office) — which shows my view of how general cooperative industry may be best put into operation on a limited scale, with a demonstration of its enormous economies & certainty of success.

Hoping these short articles may at least be suggestive, and an aid to the realisation of true cooperation,

I am, Dear Madam| Yours very faithfully| Alfred R. Wallace [signature]