WCP4665

Letter (WCP4665.4982)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset.

June 26th. 1892

Messrs. Swan Sonnenschien & Co.1

Dear Sir

Many thanks for your letter. My request that you sh[oul]d purchase the stock of my L.[and] N.[ationalisation]2 was based on Mr. Reeve’s accounts to me on January 1st. stating 36 cloth & 110 paper as his stock. This I expected would now be reduced to not much more than half. As it now appears now that he has about ten times as many cloth as I [2] expected, and three times as many paper, I much altogether decline purchasing them.

I will write to Mr Moberly3 about it, and he will inform you, after consideration, what the Society will do.

I presume the best way will be to leave them in Reeve’s hands & purchase a few as required till your Edition is out.

I am sorry you have been troubled in the matter, and remain,

Yours faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Publishing firm founded in 1878. It was amalgamated with George Allen & Co. in 1911.
2
ARW’s Land Nationalisation, published 1892. It’s full title was Land Nationalisation: Its Necessity and Its Aims, Being a Comparison of the System of Landlord and Tenant with That of Occupying Ownership in Their Influence on the Well-being of the People.
3
H[erbert]. G. Moberly, Land nationaliser.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4665.4982)]

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Transcribed by Cooper, Rod [2013-02-05] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-02-05]

Please cite as “WCP4665,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4665