WCP5074

The page is stamped "485" and the letter bears no heading but is signed in the name of ARW’s London publisher Swan Sonnenschein & Co., founded in 1878 by William Swan Sonnenschein (1855-1931).

The new edition of The Wonderful Century (Wallace A. R. (1898). The Wonderful Century; Its Successes and Its Failures London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co.) proposed by ARW in a letter of 31 October 1900 (not found but see WCP5179), drew a favourable response from Swan Sonnenschein (see WCP5070), who invited ARW to make any desired amendments to the existing agreement governing publication. It appeared as the 5^th Edition in September 1903, with 107 illustrations: Wallace, A. R. (1903). The Wonderful Century; The Age of New Ideas in Science and Invention. New (Fifth Edition) "revised and largely rewritten" London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd. The "new agreement" replaced that for publication of the current, probably 4^th, edition of The Wonderful Century (1^st ed. June 1898; 2^nd ed. Dec. 1898; 3^rd ed. May 1899; 4^th ed. Feb. 1901).