Alfred Russel Wallace 



will be saved over and over in safety, regularity, economy 

 of working, and public convenience. I have not had even 

 an acknowledgment of receipt yet, but hope to in a day 

 or two. ... 



Mr. H. M. Hyndman to A. R. Wallace 



9 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, S.W. 



March 14, 1912. 



Dear Sir, — Everyone who knows anything of the record 

 of modern science in this country recognises how very much 

 we all owe to you. It was, therefore, specially gratifying 

 to me that you should be so kind as to write such a very 

 encouraging letter on the occasion of my seventieth birth- 

 day. I owe you sincere thanks for what you said, though 

 I may honestly feel that you overpraised what I have done. 

 It has been an uphill fight, but I am lucky in being allowed 

 to see through the smoke and dust of battle a vision of 

 the promised land. The transformation from capitalism to 

 socialism is going on slowly under our eyes. 



Again thanking you and wishing you every good wish, 

 believe me yours sincerely, H. M. Hyndman. 



To Mb. M. J. Murphy 



Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset. August 19, 1913. 



Dear Sir, — I not only think but firmly believe that Lloyd 

 George is working for the good of the people, in all ways open 

 to him. The wonder is that he can persuade Asquith and the 

 Cabinet to let him go as far as he does. No doubt he is 

 obliged to do things he does not think the best absolutely, 

 but the best that are practicable. He does not profess to 

 be a Socialist, and he is not infallible, but he does the 

 best he can, under the conditions in which he finds himself. 

 Socialists who condemn him for not doing more are most 



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