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WCP4175

Letter (WCP4175.4197)

[1]

c/o Swan Sonnenschein & Co.

Paternoster Square E.C.

June 11 1894

Dear Sir

I have the honor of enclosing you an author's copy of my Towards Utopia1 just published[.] The work will — I venture to think — enlist your hearty sympathy; and should you consider it calculated to do any educational service I am not without hope that you may see fit to review it in one of the leading journals — to the entree of all of which your name of course is a masterkey. You probably know well that without such an imprimatur or rather legatur the work of an unknown author is but little likely to do any good. Personally of course to make such a request to you would be to take an unwarrantable liberty; but if you approve of my programme you will, I hope, not so consider it[.] I enclose you also a copy of my Cry of the Children2 published some time ago.

Believe me | yours faithfully | A. Free. Lance3 [signature]

Dr A R Wallace F.R.S. etc

1
Perrycoste, Frank Hill. 1894. Towards Utopia being speculations in social evolution. New York: D. Appleton and Co.
2
Perrycoste, Frank Hill. 1892. The Cry of the Children: An Essay in Tyranny and Ignorance. Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate.
3
Coste (previously Perrycoste), Frank Hill (1865-1929). British polymath.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4175.4197)]

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Transcribed by Benny, Ruth [2015-01-20] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-01-20] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP4175,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4175