WCP1378

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Washington D.C.

Jan[uar]y 8^th, 1888.

Dr A. R. Wallace.

My Dear Sir.

You will doubtless recognize in the signature ^below the name of this party who wrote you briefly in a letter recently sent you by Gen[eral] Francis Lippitt¹ of this City. I have taken the liberty of sending you a copy of my article with "Scientific Arena" on "Robert G. Ingersoll²" — I shall be to have you read it. You will perceive I have not alluded to spiritualisms, and for the reason that Mr I² professes to ignore it. I give him battle on his own grounds. Mr Ingersoll being an agnostic, and dealing very largely in aphorisms it is difficult to give him an exact location for hunse he avails that definitivnss [sic] one wants for a definite attack. May I have the pleasure of hearing from you in the near future?

Very truly &c

P. Oscar Jenkins M.D. [signature]

1700 L. St N.W.