WCP1528

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Private

DITCHINGHAM HOUSE,

NORFOLK.

June 216^th 99

To A. R. Wallace Esq. F.R.S. &c. &c.

Dear Sir,

I beg to thank you for your courteous letter & for the book you kindly enclosed; this, however, I already have & therefore return it.

I have read a great deal of vaccination literature written from both points of view, but I cannot say that any of it has shaken my faith in the its efficacy; also I find it difficult to believe that all doctors, English & foreign — or I should say an immense majority of them — are either knaves or fools. —

The question of vaccinations is one upon [2] which there are two very strong opinions & I think that time alone will show which of these is correct.

Again thanking you | I am, dear sir, | Faithfully yours | H Rider Haggard¹ [signature]

P.S. Please understand I am not attacking nor do I wish to attack anti-vaccinators. They have their views, which being very honest, being conceivably indeed, right; I respect what [illeg.] was a [illeg.] that believing those views to be wrong yet for political reasons gave way to them. — The [illeg.] astray I had on very good authority or I sh not have printed it. It seems worth investigation — I think I was careful to say however that I am unable to guarantee its details. which In truth however I do not expect to write more about vaccination. What I wish I wrote because I thought I should & theres [sic] an end!