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WCP558

Telegram (WCP558.558)

[1]

POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS.

Office Stamp. BROADSTONE C JA 8 13

Office of Origin and Service Instructions

Redirected from Parkston [sic] Parliment [sic] St. Collect fee

Handed in at 5.23. M

Received here at 6.55 p.M

TO {Alfred Russell [sic] Wallace Om

Broadstone

National Peace Council1 sends heartiest greetings to veteran champion of peace and justice

Newman2 Chairman Heath3 Secretary

[in ARW’s hand] Ansd

1
The National Peace Council, established in 1905 as the National Council of Peace Societies and later also known as the National Council for the Prevention of War, brought together national groups and organizations that held a common interest in peace, disarmament, and internationalism in support of radical and constructive solutions to problems related to war and violence.
2

Newman, Thomas Pritchard (-1915). Author and Chairman of the National Peace Council. (Margaret McKechnie Glover. Aspects of publishing by the

Peace Committee of the Religious Society of Friends (London Yearly Meeting), 1888 - 1905. University of Reading. Quaker Studies 3 (1998): 27-51 [p. 33]

3
Heath, Carl (1869-1950). A leader of the Quaker movement in Britain and a penal reformer. Secretary of the National Peace Council.

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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 “WCP558,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP558