WCP1564

Transcription (WCP1564.1343)

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Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Wimborne.

Feb[ruar]y. 28th, 1909.

Dear Miss Macdonald.

I have long known (generally) that Lincoln1 was a Spiritualist, but there has recently been published in America a book, by the lady who, when a young girl, was the medium through whom Lincoln obtained the messages referred to in your cutting.2

There is a rather full [2] notice of this book in "Light" of February 20th. & 27th & not yet finished.

Very busy!

Yours truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). American president. Served as the 16th President from 1861 to 1865.
2
Presumably, Nettie Colburn Maynard (1841-1892) who published Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist? (Philadelphia: R.C. Hartranft, 1891).

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Transcribed by Lester, Ahren [2013-06-28]

Please cite as “WCP1564,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 30 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1564