WCP1507

[1]¹

Parkstone, Dorset, Eng[land].

Sept[embe]^r. 16th 1893

B. F. Underwood Esq.²

Dear Sir

Many thanks for sending me copies of the R. P. Journal³ crit[iquein]^g my paper at the Psychical Congress. I am glad it was considered interesting as it was written in a great hurry at the last moment, when I had given up the idea of writing anything having had no recent experiences and nothing new to say. Then I suddenly thought of[sic] a sketch of the progress of opinion within my own experience [2] might do, and I sat down & wrote it off in one evening & mailed it at once to Prof. Coues⁴ at Washington, which caused it to be almost too late.

I am glad you had Mr F. W. H⁵. Myers⁶ at the Congress. He is our greatest worker, & thinker, & writer, on Psycho-Spiritual subjects, and he is I believe much more advanced as a spiritualist than his writings show. He however knows his public, & is cautious not to frighten it by going too [3] fast.

Believe me | yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

[4] Prof Alfred Wallace⁷