Record

Ref NoWP/1/8/119
Alt Ref NoWP1/8/119
TitleArnold D Taylor to Alfred Russel Wallace, from Padstowe, North Cornwall
DescriptionLetter congratulating Wallace on reaching his ninetieth birthday, with news of Taylor's dealings with landlords and efforts to improve the housing of the poor in Padstowe, articles in 'The Daily News & Leader' by Harold Spender; anecdote about a large family living in one room where the mother was giving birth and the father suffering from pleurisy, in a house surrounded by uncultivated land which could provided work and housing; Railway strike; 'Knot' strike; plight of agricultural workers.
Notes: 5 folios written on one side only; 2-5 numbered in ink
Date8 Jan 1913
AccessStatusOpen
Held ByNHM General Library
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