WCP2561

[1]

56 Regent's Park Rd

London N. W.

June 5/77

Dear Sir

You will find the whole story of Mr Hewes and his 'Jack' in the British & Foreign Medical Review for April, 1845, p. 459.¹ The Article was written by Dr Noble² of [2] Manchester, who was perfectly cognizant of the whole affair, and who had forwarded to me the numbers of the Manchester Guardian containing the several stages of it, so that my own recollection ^also is clear in the matter.

[3] I hope that in reviewing³my book,⁴ you will not think it necessary to charge me with the moral obliquity which you imputed to me in your letters⁵ to the Daily News. I have fully explained the doctrine in regard to the value of testimony, which [4] I hold in common with the world at large. Because you hold a different one, and believe a great many things which we think ourselves justified in disbelieving, I do not see that there is ^{this affords} any ground for accusing us of dishonesty, and treating us with personal hostility. Why cannot we agree to [5] ⁶differ on this as on other questions?

yours sincerely | Willm B Carpenter⁷ [signature]

A. R. Wallace Esq