Letter from James Keir Hardie, House of Commons, to J Allanson Picton, Penmaenmawr, North Wales

Has been out of London owing to sickness in family; letter from Sam Smith is quite in line with his attitude, 'he belongs to a previous generation'; and can forgive his maunderings but finds it less easy to overlook government's attitude towards the question and particularly such speeches as Lough's; 'I suppose the secular solution is now out of the question in our day and generation but it is bound to come all the same': Typescript, signed. 1p.

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