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WCP1805

Letter (WCP1805.1694)

[1]

Frith Hill Godalming

July 7th. 1882

My dear Dr. Norris1

Accept my sincerest sympathy in your domestic affliction.

Thanks for your valuable work on "The Blood"2 — I have read the Preface & the first 2 chaps with great interest & shall read all the general discussions. I trust it may gain you the reputation your persevering labours deserve.

The French book on Spiritualism is called — "Choses de l’Autre Monde" par Eugene Nus. (E. Dentu. Palais Royal, Paris.)

Will you make known my "Land" book3 to any liberal thinkers you [2] know in Birmingham, especially any who would be likely to aid in our "Land Nationalisation Society" of which I enclose two prospectuses. I feel so earnestly that this is the only way to raise our masses out of the slough of poverty & pauperism, that I cannot help thinking that if earnest philanthropists will only read the statement of facts & arguments I have set forth they will give us some support.

With kind remembrances to Mrs. Norris & your family.

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

1
Norris, Richard Hill (1830-1916). British physiologist, spiritualist and photographer.
2
Norris, Richard Hill. 1882. The Physiology and Pathology of Blood : Comprising the origon, mode of development, pathological and post-mortem changes of its morphological elements in mammalian and ovipardos vertebrates. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
3
Wallace, A. R. 1882. Land nationalisation; its necessity and its aims; being a comparison of the system of landlord and tenant with that of occupying ownership in their influence on the well-being of the people. London: Trübner & Co.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP1805.1694)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Sloyan, Victoria [2012-05-30] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2025-03-03]

Please cite as “WCP1805,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1805