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WELLS, H.G. Autograph Letter Signed, to "Dear Mr. Hackett," asking to be advised by his friends at the New Republic in preparation for reporting on the Washington Naval Conference and giving his address for correspondence. 2 pages, small 4to, personal stationery; moderate staining along upper edge, minor loss to upper right corner, folds. Great Dunmow, 28 September 1921
"I am coming over to write about the Washington Conference for a group of newspapers. . . . I shall stay about a week in New York. I'd be very grateful for a chance of meeting some of the New Republic crowd & being told things about which I'm appallingly ignorant, as e.g., who is Senator [William E.] Borah? . . . "It will be very interesting[?] spending six weeks in Washington & talking to people. I'm not going to lecture or do anything but just write about 25 short articles. . . ." Washington and the Hope of Peace was published in 1922; it contained the articles Wells wrote for the New York World, the Chicago Tribune, and other newspapers while he attended the Washington Naval Conference, held in Washington, DC, between November 1921 and February 1922.
