WCP2613

Letter (WCP2613.2503)

[1]

13 Gladsmuir Road.

Up[per]: Holloway.

London N.

19th June [18]96.1

Dear Sir.

I note your letter in "Light"2 replying to mine of last week. I read your book "Miracles & Modern Spiritualism"3, with great interest in Sep[tembe]r. 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 Ed[itio]n.4 I was struck by the expression referring to the brain, wh[ich]: occurs twice. p.p. 44. & 107. I called the attention of [2]5 some friends, who knew my views, to the point as the first time I had seen it so stated. The Ed[itio]n. 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 [to] you again. I suppose I attach a different meaning to some of the terms used by you. On looking over the new Ed[itio]n. I find I have marked the following: -

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

108 5 "more" moral.

110 2 "trivality" triviality.

121 13 philosohers" philosophers.

124 6 top "infinite" finite.

Yours faithfully | F. Clarke. [signature]

A. R. Wallace Esq[ui]r[e]. F. R. S.

Year deduced from birth and death dates of ARW (1823-1913).
Light: A journal of Psychical Occult and Mystical Research. Weekly newspaper founded in 1881, the most important periodical in English Spiritualism. Associated editors and contributors included E Dawson Rogers, William Stainton Moses, Charles Carleton Massey and other important figures in English Spiritualism.
Wallace, A. R. (1875) On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism: Three Essays, James Burns, London.
Wallace, A. R. (1896) Miracles and Modern Spiritualism. Revised (Third) Edition, George Redway, London.
Page numbered 306 in pencil in top RH corner.

Please cite as “WCP2613,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2613