WCP145

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Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne

March 18^th, 1909

My dear Will¹

From your last Report, & what you said to Violet² I was rather disturbed as to your larger[?] complication, so I wrote to my good and experienced friend Dr. A. Wallace of Harley Street, stating the main circumstances of your case and asking him whether he knew any really good mediumistic healers [2] who would be likely to give trustworthy diagnosis & advice as to treatment. This was because I have a very great horror & distrust of surgical operations in such cases. I enclose you his reply, which you can keep till you come home. He has now studied spiritualism for many years.³

I hope you will take advantage of his kind offer in both ways if the latter should be absolutely necessary which [3] I trust not. At all events it cannot harm you to have the advice of a medium first. Dr. Wallace is a most kind & sympathetic man, and one whom I am sure you will like, & who will do all he can to help us all, and be glad to do it.

I am in the midst of a grand clear up of books, tracts, papers, &c. preparatory to work at my new book. I have got new shelves put up in the study, and am trying to get all the books & papers so arranged that [4] I can have all I am likely to want to refer to near my desk. I have got from the Stores, 6 dozen of Stone’s Universal Portfolios ^{(two sizes)} to arrange the pamphlets in— just the kind of thing I wanted, as the book-boxes are so very expensive.

When I have got them all properly sorted I think you can letter the backs for me— so I will put slips of paper into each with what I want— temporarily. I have already found some things I have lost for more than a year, and many interesting books & articles I shall have to read through. I enclose cutting of a rather old nigger story, rather better told than usual, which makes me laugh every time I read it, especially the last 3 lines!

Your affectionate Pa | A. R. Wallace [signature]