AT THE TIME OF THIS HANDWRITTEN LETTER THE BEST-SELLING BOOK, THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY, HAD MADE H. G. WELLS A RICH MAN. AND, HIS 1922 FOLLOW UP WORK, A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD, WAS PRAISED BY ALBERT EINSTEIN. WELLS IS NOT AS WELL KNOWN AS A SOCIAL THEORISTS, OR CRITIC OF SOCIOLOGY. MAYBE WELL’S BRIEF AND BLUNT COMMENT IN THIS LETTER TO SOCIOLOGIST, VICTOR BRANFORD WAS THE RESULT OF WELL’S ANGER BY THE MISREADING OF THE HISTORY OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES, AND THE ATTEMPT TO MODEL SOCIOLOGY ON AN INACCURATE VISION OF THOSE SCIENCES. IN AN ESSAY ENTITLED THE SO-CALLED SCIENCE OF SOCIOLOGY, WELLS CRITIQUES CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND METHODS.

H. G. WELLS (1866-1946) HANDWRITTEN LETTER SIGNED, “Yours, H. G. Wells”, penned on a

4.5 x 3.5 postal card, postmarked in London on October 30, 1922. Brief handwritten letter to British sociologist, and founder of the Sociological Society,  Victor Branford (1863-1930), by the English writer in many disciplines called “The Father of Science Fiction”, in full: “I have had to make a vow against prefaces and published commendations.” Here, Wells is probably declining to make a review of Branford’s soon to be published book, Science and Sanctity: A Study in the Scientific Approach to Unity. In very good to fine condition, with two staple holes upper left, a paperclip impression at the top, and mounting discoloration at the corner tips, all of which could be easily matted out.       #13098ZLLB



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