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Aet. 48, to a venerable London newspaper editor. The letter was dated 4 November 1900 by Joseph 0. Baylen. 4 November 1900 was a Sunday.

Maurice Moore’s article was signed “An Officer in the Field.” It was printed as as Hell Let Loose. How We Are Waging War in South Africa and The New War in South Africa and How It Is Being Carried On: Letter from an Officer in the Field.

For a scholarly account of Stead’s anti-war activities and his publication of Maurice’s “letters” from the front, see Joseph O. Baylen, “George Moore, W. T. Stead, and the Boer War,” Studies in English (1962, Vol. 3).