Letter from [G.R. Thorne] to the Rev. J.E. Roberts

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Letter from [G.R. Thorne (1853 - 1934), British solicitor and politician] to the Rev. J.E. Roberts, condemning the threatened war [in South Africa], describing his shame at the Liberal Party and its official leaders, indicating his intention to speak out, and noting how he had to decline an offer from [Robert] Spence-Watson, politician and educationist, to speak in Newcastle.