Wallace (Edgar (Richard Horatio), writer, 1875-1932) 7 Autograph Letters signed and 1 Typed Letter signed "Dick", one to Tom & Lissy & the rest to his friend Julia Hirst in Dewsbury, together 18pp., 8vo & 4to, Simon's Town, South Africa, Bulawayo, Rhodesia & Lewisham, London, 2nd October 1896 - 17th July 1900 & n.d., about his feelings for Julia, "I had tears in my eyes when I left Dewsbury Station... I was very much gone on Julia", events in the South Africa War, "Cecil Rhodes is still the hero of the hour", as a war correspondent, "Beyond the daily interchange of shells there is nothing very startling on Modder River just now", in South Africa with Kitchener and General Carrington in Rhodesia, condolences on the death of her Aunt Clara, reporting that he has been ill, his dislike of Christianised Hindoos, his return to England and his visit to Julia at Dewsbury, and reviews of his book of poetry, "There were two reviews of my book in Saturday's papers: one was very nice ('The Daily News') but the other ('The Daily Graphic') was rather nasty"; and a small quantity of related telegrams, photographs etc., a few tears along folds, browned, v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).

⁂ Wallace met the Hirst family when he visited his adopted family's friends who ran a confectioners in Dewsbury, Yorkshire.