WCP1568

Transcription (WCP1568.1347)

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Frith Hill Godalming.

Dec. 21st 1883.

Dear Mr. Myers,1

I have only just been reading your admirable articles in the "Fortnightly"2 & am glad ti [typographical error] find from them that you propose publishing a book giving the great mass of facts you have collected.

I do not know if you have seen the pamphlet I send3 you by book post. If not read p. 32 (The whole paper is well worth reading)[.] Some years ago Mr Pengelly4 told me that, as I had expected, Mr Hazlewood5was himself. I think therefore that he would probably give you permission to publish this remarkable case of "Spectres of the Living" with his name. It would be well too if it was written out in fuller detail which I dare say he would do. I shall be glad to have the pamphlet returned any time when done with. After reading your papers I am amazed at the inpudent [typographical error] misrepresentation [typographical error] of your position and arguments in Mr Donkin's6 paper "Miracles & Medium-craft".8 But he is committed to the "delusion & imposture" theory and cannot accept any evidence which upsets it.

Believe me | Yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace.

F. W. Myers Esq.

Myers, Frederic William Henry (1843-1901). British poet, classicist, philologist, and founder of the Society of Psychical Research.
Possible Gurney E, Myers F. W. H. 1883. Transferred impressions and telepathy. Fortnightly Review March: 437–452.
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Pengelly, William (1812-1894). British geologist and archaeologist.
Hazlewood was a pseudonym used by Pengelly to write about a spiritual phenomenon in his article "Is It a Fact?" in 1872.
Donkin, Horatio Brayan (1845-1927). Member of the Prisons Board and Consulting Physician to the Westminster Hospital, the East London Hospital for Children, and King George's Hospital. Member of the Eationalist Press Association and a keen opponent of all obscurantism.

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