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WCP3039

Letter (WCP3039.3007)

[1]

17, PRINCES GATE.

S.W.

June 18 [1883]1

Private

Dear Sir

I cannot agree in your belief that vaccination "is of little or no benefit"[.] I know that, as in many other things, there is some danger without due precaution and as an investigation is now [2] going on it seems to me that Mr. Taylor's2 motion is to say the least very illtimed[.]

Yrs faithfully | George Cubitt3[signature]

A F [sic] Wallace Esq.

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1
See note 2.
2
P. A. Taylor attempted to move a motion in the House of Commons on 19 June 1883 against compulsory vaccination, but the motion was defeated. See Speeches of Mr P. A. Taylor and Mr C. H. Hopwood on Vacinnation in the House of Commons, 19 June 1883 (London, 1883). Pamphlet in London Library, revised from reporters' notes.
3
Cubitt, George (1828-1917). 1st Baron Ashcombe. British politician and peer, a son of Thomas Cubitt, the leading London builder and property developer of his day.
4
In pencil in unknown handwriting, “Geo Cubitt".

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Transcribed by Benny, Ruth [2015-02-23] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-02-23] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3039,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3039