WCP2613

Letter (WCP2613.2503)

[1]

63 Gladsmuir Road.

Up: Holloway.

London N.

19th June 96.

Dear Sir.

I note your letter1 in "Light" replying to mine2 of last week. I read your book "Miracles & Modern Spiritualism",3 with great interest in Sepr. 1890, but not since. I have no recollection of having noticed any reference to brain as battery. I got two copies, one to lend, & both are out. When I read the new Edn4 I was struck by the expression referring to the brain, wh: occurs twice. p.p. 44. & 107. I called the attention of [2] some friends, who knew my views, to the point as the first time I had seen it so stated. The Edn. of "Light" has another letter from me which may be in next week’s issue. I will wait until that is in your hands & then, if you will allow me I will write you again. I suppose I attach a different meaning to some of the terms used by you. On looking over the new Edn I find I have marked the following: -

p. 56 line 4 from bottom, for "these" read where.

108 [line] 5 [from bottom] "more" [read] moral.

110 [line] 2 [from bottom] "trivality" [read] triviality.

121 [line] 13 [from bottom] philosohers" [read] philosophers.

124 [line] 6 [from] top "infinite" [read] finite.

Yours faithfully | F. Clarke.5 [signature]

A. R. Wallace Esqr. F. R. S.

. Wallace, A. R. 1896. [Letter] Miracles and modern spiritualism. Light (20 June), p. 298.
“Scriba” [F. Clarke]. 1896. [Letter] Miracles and modern spiritualism. Light (13 June), pp. 287-288.
Wallace, A. R. 1875. On miracles and modern spiritualism. Three essays. London: James Burns.
Wallace, A. R. 1896. Miracles and modern spiritualism. Revised edition, with chapters on apparitions and phantasms. London: George Redway.
Clarke, Francis (-). Writes as “Scriba” in Light.

Please cite as “WCP2613,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2613