WCP5075

Letter (cc) (WCP5075.5553)

[1]1

13th Dec[ember] [1]900

Dear Sir,

We enclose the Agreement2 for signature. We cannot agree to the introduction of your new para[graph]. as to the binding for if the book is to be illustrated we think it will be given largely as a school prize or as a present and we shall have to get it up in the style of a gift book with a specially designed side & back. We shall be very glad of any suggestion from you as to the design to be adopted.

We are, dear Sir, | Yours very truly | NW [signature in initials]

D[octo]r. Alfred Russel Wallace

1
The letter bears no heading but is signed (initialled) in the name of ARW’s London publisher Swan Sonnenschein & Co., founded in 1878 by William Swan Sonnenschein (1855-1931).
2
The new edition of The Wonderful Century; Its Successes and Its Failures 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 5th 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 4th, edition of The Wonderful Century (1st ed. June 1898; 2nd ed. Dec. 1898; 3rd ed. May 1899; 4th ed. Feb. 1901).

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

Please cite as “WCP5075,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 11 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5075