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WCP3052

Letter (WCP3052.3020)

[1]

21 Feb 1898.

Dear Mr Wallace

I received your letter1 the other day but the pamphlet2 referred to has not yet come. It is very good of you to remember me after so many years.

Those who were so kindly friends to me in those past days are separated by such an [2] interval of years & separation in different walks of life that I see but little of them now.

I am sure I shall read with much interest your views on the most difficult subject of vaccination.

Yours sincerely | Leonard Lyell3 [signature]

[3]4

1
The letter has not been found.
2
Wallace, A. R. 1898. Vaccination a Delusion; Its Penal Enforcement a Crime: Proved by the Official Evidence in the Reports of the Royal Commission (18 Feb.), p. 353. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd., London. (According to My Life (Vol. 2, p. 353), "brought out" as a booklet for distribution in Jan. 1898); pp. (1)-96; 12 fold-out diagrams. (Smith).
3
Lyell, Leonard (1850-1926). British Liberal politician and nephew of Charles Lyell.
4
In pencil in unknown handwriting, “L Lyell”.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3052.3020)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Congerton, John [2020-06-09] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3052,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3052