WCP2550

Letter (WCP2550.2440)

[1]

Bannow Lodge,

8, Essex Villas, Argyll Road,

Campden Hill W.

Mar 18. [1867]1

My dear Sir,

I thank you much for your note.2

I go to Paris this day week: otherwise I should have tried to have again the company of Miss Nicholl:3 Mrs Hall4 thinks exceedingly well of her promise

— and so do I.

We surely want media on whom we can depend.

I know many who eagerly desire to see something: but my time will be so nearly occupied before I leave London that I fear I cannot help them.

I shall [illeg.] to give the [illeg.] to Humphreys:5 more if required.

very truly yours | S Hall [signature]

In pencil by unknown handwriting, “[1867]”.
The letter has not been found.
Guppy-Volckman (née Nicholl), Agnes Elisabeth ("Elisabeth") (1838-1917). British spiritualist medium. Second wife of Samuel Guppy.
Hall (née Fielding) Anna Maria (1800-1881). Irish novelist and wife of Samuel Carter Hall.
Humphreys, Henry T. (-1893). Born in Dublin. A Quaker and editorial staff of Morning Post. Spiritualist. See obituary, Manchester Evening Mail, 2 May 1893.

Please cite as “WCP2550,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2550