| Description | 'Why Not British Guiana? | Five Acres for Half-A-Crown' letter to the Editor of The Daily News by Alfred Russel Wallace, press cutting pasted in two pieces onto red-lined blue paper, annotations in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand include 'Aug 27th 1906' and 'This was sent under the heading 'Why not the Rio Negro'. The letter was published in The Daily News on 27 August 1906.
Notes: A piece titled 'Why Not British Guiana? | Five Acres for 2s.6d.' in The Daily News, 27 Oct [sic] 1906, is listed in Marchant, Appendix, vol 2. Not found in Smith Bibliog of Alfred Russel Wallace. SEE also WP12/23, undated press cutting [1906] letter to the Editor by Phipson, headed 'Cooperative Emigration'.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Place: British Guiana
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