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House of Commons

March 16^th 1898

My Dear D^r Wallace

I duly received your letter & delayed answering it till I had read your volume[.] I have just finished it & I think you have made an unanswerable case against compulsi[o]n[.] I am sending with this copies of the Bill² just brought [to] me by the Government and I think of moving as an amendment to the second reading that no legislation compelling any form of vaccination will be a proper settlement of the question.

In general I agree with [2] most that you contend for, perhaps the point at which we may not differ is the extent to which vaccination may modify small pox, but as I have seen a case of small pox where the patient had the third attack of that disease, even small pox itself does not prevent it[s] recurrence twice[,] so variola can[’]t be expected,

With Kindest Regards | I am yours faithfully | G.B. Clark [signature]

P.S. Your Essay did not come with your letter & I put the letter aside until the volume turned up, It never came by post but a copy was given me afterwards by a keen antivaccinator GRC