WCP4957

Letter (cc) (WCP4957.5393)

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7th Feb[ruary]. [189]82

D[octo]r. A. R. Wallace.

Dear Sir,

We think the supplementary corrections for Diagram VI will be in time, but, if not, we have told the printers not to print it again.

We expect proof of the [1 word illeg.] today, & will post you a copy as soon as it reaches us.3

We append proposed Free List, & shall be glad to have your suggestions as to additions to it.

Shall we deliver 1000 copies on publication to the Anti-Vaccination League4 at their office?

Yours very truly | Swan Sonnenschein & Co[mpany]. L[imi]t[e]d.

The page is stamped "444". The letter bears no heading, but originates from ARW’s London publisher Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 6, a firm founded in 1878 by William Swan Sonnenschein (later Stallybrass) (1855-1931), a son of Adolphus Sonnenschein, a teacher and writer originally from Moravia, and his first wife Sarah Robinson Stallybrass. In the light of the hostility to Germans during the First World War William Swan Sonnenschein changed his surname to Stallybrass for the remainder of his life, as did some of his family.
Year inferred from context.
The author refers to publication of Wallace A. R. (1898). The Wonderful Century; Its Successes and Its Failures London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co.
The National Anti-Vaccination League was founded in 1896, growing from earlier smaller organizations in London, originally under the title Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League. The organisation opposed compulsory vaccination, particularly against smallpox, arguing that it did more harm than good. ARW argued the anti-vaccination case in his pamphlet Wallace, A. R. (1898) Vaccination a delusion. Its Penal Enforcement a Crime: Proved by the official evidence in the reports of the Royal Commission London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd. This monographic criticism of vaccination was published in the Spring of 1898, then incorporated into ARW’s The Wonderful Century published by Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd. later that year.

Please cite as “WCP4957,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4957