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To MISS BUCKLEY

Waldron Edge, Croydon.

May 2, 1879.

Dear Miss Buckley,—...

My "Reciprocity" article seems to have produced a slight effect on the Spectator, though it did snub me at first, but it is perfectly sickening to read the stuff spoken and written, in Parliament and in all the newspapers, about the subject, all treating our present practice as something holy and immutable, whatever bad effects it may produce, and though it is not in any way "free trade" and would I believe have been

given up both by Adam Smith and Cobden.—

Yours very faithfully,

ALFRED R. WALLACE