WCP5072

Letter (cc) (WCP5072.5550)

[1]1

Nov[ember] 14 [1900]2

D[octo]r. A. R. Wallace

Dear Sir,

We have succeeded in getting an order from the Anti-Vaccination League3 for 500 copies of "Vaccination: a delusion",4 but unfortunately we have mislaid our file copy.

Have you a copy you could lend us please?

Your faithful servants. | Swan Sonnenschein & Co[mpany]. L[imite]d. | FRS [signature in initials]

1
The page is stamped "331" and the letter bears no heading, but is signed with initials "FRS" (F. R. Stallybrass) in the name of ARW’s London publisher Swan Sonnenschein & Co., founded in 1878 by William Swan Sonnenschein (1855-1931).
2
Year inferred as 1900. This letter is in a sequence of exchanges between ARW and the publisher in late 1900 regarding preparations for the publication of Wallace A. R. (1901). The Wonderful Century Reader London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., in November 1901, an abridged version of the 4th Edition (February 1901) of Wallace A. R. (1898). The Wonderful Century; Its Successes and Its Failures London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co.
3
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 Vaccination a delusion.
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 later that year.

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

Please cite as “WCP5072,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 4 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5072