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WCP5051

Letter (cc) (WCP5051.5525)

[1]1

22 Sept[ember] [189]92

D[octo]r. Alfred R. Wallace.

Sir,

192. 16. 83

Sir

[2]
Alfred R. Wallace Esq[uire]. June
70%
1898 1898
Feb[ruary] 19 13/12 Vaccination4 1/- 8d & post 8 7 June 30 By Royalty 1 19 1
Oct[ober] 11

Corrections "Wonderful Century"5

160 hrs. @ 1/- £8.0.0 6 hrs Attce. £68

2

0

0

1899

 "" 24 18
[October] 12 1 Wonderful Century 7/6 5/- & post 5 4 June 30 "" 1 4
Nov[ember] 11 1 Pedagogies 3/- 2/3 & post 2 7 "" 168 4
1899
M[ar]ch 8 2 Wonderful Century 5/8 & post 11 11
Sept[ember] 22 To Cheque 192 16 8
196 5 1 196 5 1
1
This is ARW's account 1898-1899 with his London publisher Swan Sonnenschein & Co., founded in 1878 by William Swan Sonnenschein (1855-1931).
2
Year on record.
3
Payment to account of £192 16s 8d (approx. £192.83).
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.
5
Wallace A. R. (1898). The Wonderful Century; Its Successes and Its Failures London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co.

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

Please cite as “WCP5051,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5051