WELLS H.G.: (1866-1946)

WELLS H.G.: (1866-1946) English writer, remembered for his science fiction novels. A good A.L.S., H. G. Wells, one page, small 4to, Easton Glebe, Dunmow, n.d. (annotated 1916 in another hand at the head), to Huntly Carter. Wells writes in response to Carter's letter in which the journalist had posed some questions to Wells, asking what his opinion of the industrial situation regarding Labour, capital and the nation as a commercial entity was, as well as the best policies to be followed. Wells answers by stating, in part, '1a Labour will be after some fool's grievance about the C[onscience] O[bjectors] or suchlike, under the guidance of Fenner Brockway, Ramsay MacDonald & so forth......Labour will be unaware that there is an economic problem. Labour will be sheep in a narrow road. 1b. Capital will be scrambling back towards the old conditions in a stupid instinctive way under cover of an Irish row. 1c. Nonsense! Do you mean economic? 2a. 2b. 2c. Think hard. But this is Utopian'. Some very light, extremely minor age wear and a few very small pinholes to the upper left corner, otherwise VG Huntly Carter (1862-1942) British author, journalist and critic of the performing and visual arts. Fenner Brockway (1888-1988) British socialist politician, humanist campaigner and anti-war activist who served as Chairman of the Independent Labour Party (1931-33) and then as its General Secretary (1933-39). James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937) Scottish politician who first belonged to the Labour Party. British Prime Minister 1924, 1929-35.