WCP2673

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Nov 25 1889

Dear Mr Wallace

I venture to send with diffidence the little paper of wh.[ich] 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 [remains] silent, or as I am afraid I did throws off all restraint as before a familiar friend.

[2] The sole value 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 [one word illegible] as important.

[3] I think so still— just how it is I do not know more than I did in 1849, when the cholera was here— now do I know how psychical 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 writing to speak with you—

I will read a once again Poulton’s¹ & Weismann’s² paper. Poulton is doing real good.

I am | dear Mr Wallace | faithfully [one word illegible] | Henry Acland³ [signature]