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Letter from Arnold D Taylor from Padstowe, North Cornwall, 8 Jan 1913 to A. R. Wallace congratulating him 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. Place: Broadstone Dorset England Notes: 5 folios written on one side only; 2-5 numb |
