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Frith Hill, Godalming

June 3rd, 1882

Dear Mr George

There has been a very short paragraph notice of my book in the "Daily Chronicle" the writer evidently not having read & a fairly good notice in the Liverpool Mercury. A copy has been sent to the Freeman's Journal.

I wrote to Harpers & sent them a set of proof sheets about two months ago but have had no reply. I now post you a copy of the cheap edition, the only one I have on hand. Perhaps you can get some one to review [2] it for the "Nation" or for some other good paper. I have just been reading with great interest & pleasure your forcible article in the Fortnightly Review, with which I entirely agree. Somewhat similar views have been set forth in letters in the "Daily News" & "Spectator", & to some extent in the <end> of Abbeson Herbert's strange letters to the "Times". Surely the English people will ere long see that the forcible government of one people by another is repugnant to all ideas of liberty an must [3] produce only evil.

Believe me | Yours faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]