108, Greenwich Rd,
London, S.E.
Jan. 6. 1913.
To Dr. Alfred Russell[sic.] Wallace
Dear Sir,
I have just read "Levelling Up" in the D[aily]. N[ews].1 I have been saying, for years, that salaries are so high that people who get them don’t know what to do with them so they give whatever is asked [2] by the Fruiterer (the chief purveyor of natural food) and there is nothing left us with small means but the rotten & stale.
I have lived in the Port of London for 60 years and have watched how things go & find the alcohol delusion; our absurd drinking customs are stopping all openings towards progress— the publican & brewer & [3] the high salaried official gets the pick of all that is going— the poor have the flaring open pub & the fried fish shop.
While staying in the Garden City (Letchworth) I noticed in the local paper I noticed how Mr. Craske2 the secretary of the Garden City Company had omitted in his letter one of the causes of a lower death rate &c. and had the pleasure of seeing my correction [4] in the following week’s issue.
I enclose the cuttings & hope they will be of interest to you & if you will kindly return them I will look up the current figures yet the two letters printed on one leaflet for my own distribution in letters &c. If you have any small pamphlet on Natural Selection I should be glad if you could send it me.
Yours faithfully | Alfred Hall Waters [signature]
Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP597.597)]
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