WCP5077

Letter (cc) (WCP5077.5555)

[1]1

Jan[uary] 16 [1]901

Alfred Russel Wallace Esq[uire].

Dear Sir,

We are sorry to say that all the copies of "Wonderful Century"2 are out with the Booksellers.

We have only one copy, which is minus the Vaccination3 portion, but send it herewith, as we believe you <do> [MS damaged] not need that part.

If you will destroy one of <your> [MS damaged] copies we will replace, as soon as <a> [MS damaged] reprint is ready, which we hope <will be> [MS damaged] in about a fortnight.

Yours faithful<ly> | Swan Son<nenschein> [MS damaged]

1
The page is stamped "606" 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).
2
Wallace A. R. (1898). The Wonderful Century; Its Successes and Its Failures London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co.
3
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 “WCP5077,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5077