WCP3051

Letter (WCP3051.3019)

[1]1

34 Great Ormond St

London W.C.

21 Feb[ruary]. [18]982

Dear Dr Russel Wallace

Yesterday I read through at a sitting your new vaccination essay, finding the interest well sustained by the vigorous and clear style. I laid it down with the strong feeling that you had brought the day of our deliverance nearer. I fear the inertia of Parliament is still very great; but I am sure that your tone and line [2] of argument and of criticism of the Royal Commission Report3, come well suited to fix the attention of Members of Parliament. The difficulties of tinkering the vacc[inatio]n. Acts are so great that it is not unlikely the Government may fail wearing their Amendment Bill4 — which would practically mean a surrender of the whole case.

Yours faithfully | C. Creighton [signature]5

1
Page numbered 316 in pencil in top RH corner.
2
Date deduced from birth and death dates of author.
3
A report on Vaccination and its Results: Based on the Evidence Taken by the Royal Commission During the Years 1889-1897, published 1898.
4
Vaccination Act, 1898, Amendment Bill.
5
British Museum stamp.

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Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2015-03-04] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-03-04] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Please cite as “WCP3051,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3051