WCP4946

Letter (cc) (WCP4946.5382)

[1]

17th Dec[ember] [189]7

Dr A. R. Wallace,

Dear Sir,

We have duly rec[eive]d your MS1. Vaccination a Delusion2; & enclose agreement form which we propose for this. We agree with you that it would be better to treat the books independently in the agreements. We also enclose a proposal for the other book, which we trust will meet with your approval. Could you have it ready for publication by the early part of next year? We have found of recent years that books published in the Spring get far more, and more extensive, notice than Autumn books, owing to the smaller number of important books published. We could do the printing in a week or two if necessary.

We will agree to supply to Anti-Vaccination League3 with their 800 copies at 6 1/2 per copy, which [2] as nearly as we can foresee, will be their cost-price, treating the cost of the diagram block-making as a cost of The Wonderful Century4. The pamphlet, bound in stiff wrappers, with these diagrams, will be a very cheap book for y[ou][?]

Yours very truly, | Swan Sonnenschein & Co Ltd5 [signature]

1
MS. Manuscript.
2
Wallace A. R. (1898). Vaccination a Delusion; Its Penal Enforcement a Crime: Proved by the Official Evidence in the Reports of the Royal Commission. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd., London, pp. 1-96. The pamphlet was published in the spring of 1898, then incorporated into The Wonderful Century in the autumn. The Alfred Russel Wallace Page.
3
The National Anti-Vaccination League was founded in 1896 in Britian, growing from earlier smaller organizations in London, originally under the title Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League. The organisation opposed compulsory vaccination, particularly against smallpox. Wikipedia.
4
Wallace, A. R. (1898) The Wonderful Century; Its Successes and Its Failures. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd., London. pp. (i)-xii, (1)-400.
5
The publishing firm Swan Sonnenschein was founded in 1878 and specialised in sociology and politics. It was amalgamated with George Allen & Co. in 1911. <https://www.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/collections/sc-sonnenschein.aspx> [accessed 23 August 2015].

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