Wells (H.G.)

Autograph letter signed ('H.G.Wells') to a Mr Dickinson, reading "I am greatly obliged to you for your friendly letter and your sympathetic activities. A considerable number of people have been interested in the idea of O.C. in spite of the unattractive way in which it is written. There is no central organisation to forward these ideas. I have put my own views very dogmatically; they serve for me; but I quite realise that there must be a lot of variety of change in the kindred and parallel movements that are likely to arise out of the conditions and suggestions of the present time. Organise an independent and different group if you wish, taking the O.C. merely as your point of departure", two pages, light folding marks, some yellowing, 4to, 614 St Ermin's, Westminster, 4 October 1928.

***The Open Conspiracy (O.C.) had been published in a booklet form earlier in 1928 and would be revised and extended in 1933. It was, in fact, the author's blueprint for a successful and peaceful world of the future. In Well's words "...a scheme to thrust forward and establish a human control over the destinies of life and liberate it from its present dangers, uncertainties and miseries".