WCP508

Telegram (WCP508.508)

[1]1

POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS.

[Post Office date-stamped] BROADSTONE C JA[NUARY] 11 [19]13

Fleet St[reet]

Handed in at 7-2.M

Received here at [illegible].M

Reply paid 24 words

TO Russell [sic] Wallace Old Orchard Broadstone Dorset Editor Daily Chronical2 [sic] presents his compliments and would be glad to receive by post or telegraph not later than Tuesday afternoon for publication Wednesdays [sic] issue your opinion of Insurance Act3and [2]4 as instrument Social Reform and of effect on life of Nation [?] Daily Chronical [sic]

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This is a Post Office Telegraph form with the message hand-written in pencil. The repository reference number "[WP1/8/37 f1 of 2]" and the number "172" appear here. The document is annotated "(cont[inued])" and "Ans[wered]".
2
The Daily Chronicle was a British newspaper that was published from 1872 to 1930 when it merged with the Daily News to become the News Chronicle. The editor (1895-1899 and 1904-1918) was Robert Donald (1860-1933).
3
The National Insurance Act 1911 gave the British working classes the first contributory system of insurance against illness and unemployment. It was regarded as one of the foundations of modern social welfare in the United Kingdom and forms part of the wider social reforms of the Liberal Government of 1906-1915.
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The message continues on a second otherwise blank Post Office Telegraph form. The repository reference number "[WP1/8/37 f2 of 2]" appears here and the document is annotated "Ans[were]d".

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Telegram (WCP508.508)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP508,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP508