Alfred Russel Wallace : Alfred Wallace : A. R. Wallace :
Russel Wallace : Alfred Russell Wallace (sic)
Mr. Wallace and The Zetetic (S220a:
1873)
Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: A brief letter to the Editor concerning Wallace's flat-earth
nemesis John Hampden, printed on page 56 of the January 1873 issue of The Zetetic. Followed
by the editors' reply. To link directly to this page, connect with:
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Gentlemen,--Your paragraph in the The Zetetic of
this month about my prosecution of Mr. Hampden is a gross and wilful mis-statement
of the facts. The case is not yet disposed of. I did
not press for an apology to be made; on the contrary I refused
to accept one till most strong
pressed by Mr. Hampden's friends.
You may correct this mis-statement; or leave it uncorrected, as it is most congenial to the character of your paper.
ALFRED R. WALLACE.
Dec. 11th, 1872.
[In one respect, we admit, Mr. Wallace is correct.
Until he submits his proceedings to a proper tribunal "the case," assuredly, shall
not be disposed of. As regards his accepting an
apology "under pressure," we do not believe such "pressure" would
have been borne, if in any way unpalatable. The concluding sentence of his letter
unmistakeably proves that, among Mr. Wallace's many good qualities, that of the
grossest impertinence is by no means the least prominent. --Eds. Zetetic.]
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