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From:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 April 1874
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/48
Summary:

Letter on mourning paper, offering condolences on the death of ARW's son Bertie (Herbert Spencer Wallace). Possible Spiritualist contact with Bertie through her, her sister or the medium Mrs Guppy; enclosing a transcription in an other hand, signed "Janie", of an alleged conversation held on April 25 and 26, with spirits, about Bertie; including the claim that he was now in the care of his Uncle Herbert. Annotated in pencil [in ARW's hand] "A B Buckley (Fisher)".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project