WCP4963

Letter (cc) (WCP4963.5399)

[1]1

11th March [189]82

Dear Sir

Your limit for corrections in "The Wonderful Century"3 [1 word illeg.] the Agreement is £6 equivalent to 120 hours — In "Vaccination"4 it was £2 equivalent to 40 hours. Of course if you introduce new matter in paged proofs except where there are blank spaces it entails over-running and the cost soon mounts up — We will send the proofs flat in future.5

As regards the binding we shall match the cloth of "Island Life"6 and use the block you have selected with the additional dates to give it a [2] special character. We cannot send you a specimen of the actual binding until the book is printed as the blocks for the back have to be cut according to the thickness of the book.

Yours very truly | HW [signature in initials]

D[octo]r. Alfred R. Wallace.

1
The letter is stamped "600" on the reverse and bears no heading, but originates from ARW’s London publisher Swan Sonnenschein & Co., founded in 1878 by William Swan Sonnenschein (1855-1931).
2
Year inferred from context.
3
Wallace A. R. (1898). The Wonderful Century; Its Successes and Its Failures London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co.
4
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 (see Endnote 3).
5
ARW had previously instructed the publishers to send the proofs flat, which was overlooked by the proof clerk (see WCP4955, 31 January 1898).
6
Wallace, A. R. (1880). Island Life: Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates. London, Macmillan & Co.

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Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP4963,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4963