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WCP2592

Letter (WCP2592.2482)

[1]

From F. W. Myers

Beckhampton House,

Cambridge

Feb 7/ 93

Dear Mr Wallace

Thankyou for your letter,1 — kind and encouraging as usual[.]

You touch on one matter wh. much interest me:— Mr Hockley’s2 notes on Crystals. Can you find out where these MSS are? I cd. never learn anyt[hing] about his crystals or his MSS. He is certainly dead.

I am now analysing Stainton-Moses’3 MSS, & hope to bring out the evidential value of his physical phenomena more fully than he himself did. The [illeg.] are most interesting.

Thank you much for Mivart’s4 letter, wh. I have sent on to my brother Dr. A. T. Myers,5 2 Manchester Square, W, who with return it to you. He is already analysing the Lourdes evidence[.]

I have had some very good raps lately in private circles ;— & I suppose that raps are physical phenomena! As for myself, I have always thought Moses’ physical phenomena extremely strong.

Yours most truly | F. W. H Myers6 [signature]

2
Hockley, Frederick (1809-1885). British Spiritualist, accountant, and Freemason.
3
Moses, William Stainton (1839-1892). British Christian cleric and spiritualist.
4
Mivart, St. George Jackson (1827-1900). British physician, zoologist and Roman Catholic polemicist.
5
Myers, Arthur Thomas (1851-1894). British physician and sportsman. Brother of Frederic William Henry Myers.
6
Myers, Frederic William Henry (1843-1901). British poet, classicist, philologist, and founder of the Society of Psychical Research. Brother of Arthur Thomas Myers.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP2592.2482)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Ball, Amy [2015-03-24] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-03-24] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP2592,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2592