WCP2673

[1]¹

Nov 25 1889

Dear Mr Wallace,

I venture to send with diffidence the little paper of wh. I spoke to you last night.

My only excuse is that when one comes face to face with a name & person that is a Household word one either [illeg.] silent, or as I am afraid I did throws off all restraint as before a familiar friend.

[2] The sole value if any of this paper in relation to bodily quality, is that 40 years ago a young Physician deeply impressed by the condition of our poor population, felt as deeply that material amelioration is not all— that moral influences are however mysteriously as important.

[3] I think so still— But how it is I do not know more than I did in 1849, when the cholera was here— nor do I know how pschychical [sic] influences alter the bodily frame. They do alter it and both are transmitted by some agency.

Pray forgive me – [4] It is so that I could not help wanting to speak with you—

I will read at once again Poulton’s² & Weismann’s³ paper. Poulton is doing real good.

I am | dear Mr Wallace | faithfully yrs obliged | Henry Acland⁴ [signature]