WCP3054

[1]

14, Beaufort Gardens,

S.W.

24 February [18]98

Dear Sir

Your pamphlet on vaccination only reached me today, or I should before this have acknowledged your note of the 16^th, in which you refer to your friendship with [2] my brother. It was a friendship which he very highly prized, & he often spoke of you. Especially you were continually in our minds when we paid a visit to Java & Malacca, during which time your "Malay Archipelago" was our constant handbook. [3]

I will read the pamphlet with pleasure, & I may mention that I am already a declared opponent to compulsory vaccination.

Believe me | Yours very truly | W. Wedderburn [signature]