WCP2608

Letter (WCP2608.2498)

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Alexandrie (Italie),

4 Jan[vier] [18]95

Royal Institut, Technique L. Da. Vinci 4

Honorable monsieur et f.e.c.,

J’attends que vous ayez l'amabilité de m’écrire au sujet de ma lettre que je vous ai adressé dernièrement. Je vous en serai bien oblilgé

Avez vous reçu les revues que je vous ai envoyé, et avez vous pu les lire?

Chez moi, je fais de temps à autre des séances; et avec la médiummité de ma mère j'observe des phénomènes assez importants. Je les relaterai sous le titre de: "Vengeance et charité l'outre-tombe". Si j’avais un biomètre Fortin je l’employerai pour marquer l'attraction (á droite) et la répulsion (á gauche) du corps astral. Connaissez vous ce biomètre ? Le doct. Baraduc en parle dans sa: "Force vitale ou notre corps vital fluidique et sa formule biometrique".

J'ai recu le "Journal" de la "S[ociety]. [for] P[sychical].R[esearch]." avec la relation de M. Lodge sur les phénomènes observés chez M. Richet. Que de fois j'ai célébré le médium de Naples, E. Paladino! Que de fois je vous en ai écrit!

A Rome et à Siracense il y-a aussi des médiums remarquables. M. Richet en a observés deux ou trois. Dans ma séance, à Rome, un de ces médiums pu léviter jusqu' au plafond d’une salle, entraînant mon ami le doct: "N. Santangelo et notre f.e.c. L. Ferri, profes: de philosophie à l'Université de Rome.

"N.1. medium - n. 2 prof. Ferri - n.3 doct. Santangelo."

Agréez, cher monsieur, mes salutations et mes félicitations | Votre fidèle | M.T. Falcomer [signature]

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CARTOLINA POSTALE ITALIANA

(CARTE POSTALE D’ITALIE)

A Mr. le Doct.r

Alfed Russel-Wallace,

F. R. S.

Parkstone

(Inghilterra) Corfe-view. (Dorset)

NB. Sul lato anteriore della presente si scrive soltanto l’indirizzo.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION:

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Alessandria (Italy),

4 Jan[uary] [18]95

Royal Technical Institute, L. da Vinci 4

Honourable Sir and f. e. c.[?],1

I would be grateful if you would kindly reply to the letter I sent to you recently.

Have you received the journals I sent you and have you had a chance to read them?

I hold seances here from time to time and with my mother as medium. I have observed some fairly important phenomena.  I will describe them under the title "Vengeance and Charity from beyond the tomb".  If I had a Fortin biometre I would use it to measure the attraction (right) and the repulsion (left) of the astral body.

Do you know this biometre?  Doctor Baraduc2 refers to it in his "Vital force, or our fluid vital body and its biometric formula".

I have received the "S[ociety]. [for] P[sychical].R[esearch]." " Journal"3 with M. Lodge's article4, 5 on the phenomena observed chez M. Richet.  I have so often celebrated the Naples medium  E. Paladino!6 And so often written to you about her!

There are remarkable mediums in Rome and in Syracuse. M. Richet has observed two or three. In my seance in Rome one of these mediums was able to levitate to the ceiling, dragging with him my friend Doctor N Santangelo and our f.e.c. L. Ferri, professor of Philosophy at the University of Rome.

“N.1. medium – n.2 prof. Ferri – n.3 doct[or] Santangelo.”

Best wishes and congratulations, | Your faithful [friend], M. T. Falcomer [signature]

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ITALIAN POSTCARD

ITALIAN POSTCARD

To Doctor

Alfred Russel-Wallace,

F. R. S.

Parkstone

(England) Corfe-view. (Dorset)

NB. On the front of this [card] only the address may be written.8

f.e.c.
Baraduc, Hippolyte (1850-1902). French psychical researcher.
The Society for Psychical Research was established in London in 1882. It was the first scientific organisation to examine the claims of psychic and paranormal phenomena. Society for Psychical Research. 2018. About the SPR. Society for Psychical Research. <https://www.spr.ac.uk/about-spr> [accessed 21 Sept. 2020].
Lodge, Oliver Joseph (1851-1940). British physicist.
Lodge, Oliver Joseph. 1894. Experience of Unusual psychical phenomena occurring in the presence of an entranced person (Eusapia Paladino). Journal of Society for Psychical Research. CXIV. Vol. VI. 305-336
Paladino, Eusapia (1854-1918). Italain Spiritualist and medium.
Sketch of gentleman in suit, holding two children [?] by their lapels. Both children have a question mark (?) above their heads.
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Please cite as “WCP2608,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2608