[in ARW’s hand] Ansd
TELEPHONE 101.
Limehurst,
Spalding.
7th Jan. 13.
To Dr A R Wallace. OM FRS
Sir.
I am very interested in the interview with you in yesterdays Daily News.1
I note you are reported as having said, "During the last century wealth has been accumulating at one end of our amazing humanity and poverty at the other."
I suppose there is a cause for any phenomenon and that if this was found the effect [2] would not be amazing,
May it not be dangerous to tamper with the effect when the nature & magnitude of the producing cause or causes are so little understood that their effect appears amazing & would not the right line of attack be to investigate the causes instead of levelling up the effect?
I hope you can give me your kindly help with my difficulty for I am greatly interested in preventing poverty.
Yours faithfully.| E. Pickworth-Farrow.2 [signature] | (B.Sc. Lond.)
[3][in W.G.W’s hand] Pickwoth-Farrow 90th
Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP518.518)]
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