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[CROYDON]
JULY 28 1874.
"Sir, — I have received your letter, and, in reply, I beg to state that, so far from knowing my charges to be false, I do now swear, and will swear as long as I have breath, that your conduct towards me has been that of a cheat, a swindler, an imposter, and a thief, and you shall put me into every court in the United Kingdom before you compel me to be so wrong and swindled as I have been by you, and I dare and defy you to shew these libels to be false.—
"J[ohn] H[ampden]."
Status: Draft transcription [Published letter (WCP6732.7786)]
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On another post-card he wrote: —-
CROYDON
JULY 28 [1874].
"Sir, — I have received your summons, and, in reply, I beg to state that, so far from," knowing my charges to be ‘false,’ I do now swear, and will swear as long as I have breath, that your conduct towards me has been that of a cheat, a swindler, an imposter, and a thief, and you shall put me into any Court in the United Kingdom before you compel me to be so robbed and swindled as I have been by you; and I dare and defy you to show these libels to be false.
"JOHN HAMPDEN."
Status: Draft transcription [Published letter (WCP6732.7787)]
For more information about the transcriptions and metadata, see https://wallaceletters.myspecies.info/content/epsilon
Please cite as “WCP6732,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6732