WCP3066

Postcard (WCP3066.3034)

[1]

Starnberg (Bavaria)

1.2.10

Honoured Sir,

Mr McCormick1 had the kindness to send me your address. Your excellent book Vaccination a Delusion2 is most useful to is in the combat against this tremendous humbug to which annually hundreds of valuable lives are sacrificed in all so called civilised countries. Whoever has read you clear exposition of the case and is not convinced must be either a blockhead or a scoundrel. In the beginning of March we shall have a big anti-vaccination-meeting at Munich, where I shall give some specimens from your book and with your kind permission exhibit some of your diagrams about ten times enlarged. Shall you allow me to publish an extract or is your book already translated into German? I should be very happy to get your photograph and a line or two.

Believe me, honoured Sir, yours most respectfully and truly | Dr H. Molenaar3 [signature]

Did you get my leaflet from the Anti-Vacc. Society?

[2]

Dr A. R. Wallace

Broadstone

near Wimborne

Dorsetshire

England

McCormick, Ernest. Writer of ‘Is Vaccination a Disastrous Delusion?’ Vaccination Inquirer (1 Feb. 1910), p. 228.
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).
Molenaar, Heinrich (1870-1965). German high school professor, writer and philosopher. Committed opponent of vaccination and tobacco, gave lectures on Comte's positivism.

Please cite as “WCP3066,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3066