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WCP4964

Letter (cc) (WCP4964.5400)

[1]1

14th March [189]82

Dear Sir,

We have instructed the Printers to send the remaining proofs of "The Wonderful Century"3 in slip — The alterations made in Fig[ure] D will entail over-running which of course will be charged as "corrections" — We have not yet received the Printer[']s account for "Vaccination"4 and are therefore unable to tell you what has been charged for "corrections".

Any additions of new matter in separate paragraphs to slip proofs is [sic] charged as part of the "setting up" of the book not as corrections.

Yours very truly | [signature in initials illeg.]

D[octo]r. Alfred R. Wallace.

1
The letter bears no heading, but originates from ARW’s London publisher Swan Sonnenschein & Co., founded in 1878 by William Swan Sonnenschein (1855-1931).
2
Year on record.
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.¶

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

Please cite as “WCP4964,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4964