WCP2592

Letter (WCP2592.2482)

[1]

From F. W. Myers

Beckhampton House,

Cambridge

Feb[ruary] 7/ [18]93

Dear Mr Wallace

Thankyou for your letter, — kind and encouraging as usual

You touch on one matter with much interest re :— Mr Hockley’s1 notes on crystals. Can you find out where these MSS are? I could never learn anyt[hing] about his crystals or his MSS. He is certainly[?] dead.

I am now analysing Stainton-Moses’2 MSS [manuscripts] and hope to bring out the evidential value of his physical phenomena more fully than he himself did. The means[?] are most interesting.

Thankyou much for Mivart’s3 letter, which I have sent on to my brother Dr. A. T. Myers4, 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.

Your most kind |F. W. H Myers5 [signature]

1
Hockley, Frederick (1809-1885). British occultist.
2
Stainton Moses, William (1839-1892). English cleric and reputed medium.
3
Mivart, St. George Jackson MD FRS (1827-1900). English biologist.
4
Myers, Arthur Thomas (1851-1894). British physician and sportsman
5
British Museum stamp

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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]

Please cite as “WCP2592,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2592