WCP1495

Letter (WCP1495.1274)

[1]

Feb 21.1

24 Ealing Common

W.

Dear Sir

Very many thanks for what seems to be a smashing indictment of Vaccination. Like most other people I have been brought up to believe in Vaccination, and I confess that only the solemn assurance of a scientific authority [2] backed up with evidence would have altered my views. This your little book2 has done & I trust it will have a wide circulation.

I am sorry I was too late to secure “The Wonderful Century”3

Yours very truly | George Redway [signature]

George Redway4

Dr. A. R. Wallace

1
Letter can be dated to 1898. Wallace’s Vaccination a Delusion, to which Redway later refers, was published in February 1898. Wonderful Century was published in April 1898. Presumably Redway was ‘too late to secure’ a pre-order copy of the Wonderful Century.
2
Alfred Russel Wallace, Vaccination a Delusion: Its Penal Enforcement a Crime (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1898).
3
Alfred Russel Wallace, The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Failures (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1898).
4
Written in Wallace’s hand.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP1495.1274)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Lester, Ahren [2013-02-05] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-02-05] Transcription checked by Beros, Matt [2020-10-30]

Please cite as “WCP1495,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1495