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Lega Internazionale contro la Vaccinazione

Il Presidente

Telef. 2,49

Perugia

4^th January 1912.

Dear Sir Alfred,

Allow me that I send you my best wishes for the new year, hoping that your health will be good for a long series of years, so that your precious life can continue for a long time more to benefit and enlighten the world.

At the Frankfurt Congress against vaccination I was very proud that my name was associated to yours on the foundation of the International Leag[u]e against vaccination. Your wonderful writings have produced an immense benefit for the progress of our causes, & I think that no contrast could be more striking than the one of your book where vaccination is demonstrated so great an extravagant error as to form a real wonder of the past century.

[2] I will do all my possible[sic] for imitating[sic] you in order to see stamped out this ghastly mistake from my country, & will try to excite a larger sentiment against it in all the countries.

Here I have sent to all the Italian medical men (25,000) an Appeal of which I send you a copy. I will have it translated into English, German, French & Spanish, and will try to have it largely published in all these countries.

The Post Card that I enclose as a Post Card of the International League, was largely distributed all through Italy (50,000 copies) & hope that it will contribute to raise up the sentiment against vaccination.

Now please make me a favour.

I wish to publish on[sic] my magazine "Vita & Malattie"² your biography with your portrait. It is necessary that every one [3]³ knowing that the Honorary President of the International League is one of the greatest men in the world. And I beg of you to send me all the details of your life in order that the biography be complete.

Thank you for the favour.

Sir Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M,

Parkstone⁴.

Yours most devotedly | Charles Ruata. [signature]