Ɛpsilon

WCP516

Postcard (WCP516.516)

[1]

[in ARW’s hand] Answd

Please accept my heartiest congratulations. May you be spared to see your ideas on the land question1 receive general acceptance.

With every good wish, believe me | Yours v truly | M.T. Evans2

M. P. S.,3 Pharmacist, THE WESTHAM PHARMACY, WEYMOUTH. [Printed sticker].

[in ARW’s hand] Ackd

[2]

Alfred Russell [sic] Wallace Esq. O.M.4

The Old Orchard

Broadstone

Dorset

1
ARW believed that rural land should be owned by the state and leased to people who would make whatever use of it that would benefit the largest number of people, thus breaking the power of wealthy landowners in British society. In 1881, he was elected first president of the newly formed Land Nationalisation Society and in 1882 published Land Nationalisation; Its Necessity and Its Aims, on the subject.
2

Evans, Moses Thomas (-). Local pharmacist, based in Weymouth, Dorset.

<https://dn790006.ca.archive.org/0/items/registersofpharm00pharuoft/registersofpharm00pharuoft.pdf>

3
The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain was founded in London in 1841.
4
Order of Merit.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Postcard (WCP516.516)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2024-11-11]

Please cite as “WCP516,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP516