WCP6754

[1] [p. 7]

5 — Letter addressed to the editor of the English Mechanic, September 10, 1874, and enclosed by the editor to the prosecutor.

"Sir, — What a disgraceful fact it is that one of your principal professors — one of the high priests of English science — should have been for four years and a half posted to every town in the kingdom as a convicted cheat, swindler, impostor and thief, for such your friend, Mr. Alfred Russell Wallace has been, and the poor wretch [2] [p. 8] does not seem to have had one friend besides his hired attorney to take his part. — John Hampden.¹"