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WCP3014

Letter (WCP3014.2904)

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Berlin Heights. O

Jan 15. 71.

Prof. A. E. [sic] Wallace:

Dear Sir, through the kindness of Mr. James Burns,1 I transmit to you my last work "The Arcana of Spritualism",2 and hope you will be pleased with the manner in which I have treated therein the great subject to which it is devoted.

I have just finished reading your work "On Natural Selection"3 with deep interest, the vast generalization it develops is a never failing source of thought.

I am Truly Yrs | Hudson Tuttle4[signature]

The book has not come to hand yet. HT.

1
Burns, James (1835-1894). British spiritualist, bookseller and publisher.
2
Tuttle, H. 1871. Arcana of Spiritualism: A Manual of Spiritual Science and Philosophy. Boston: Adams & Co.
3
Wallace, A. R. 1870. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection. London: Macmillan & Co.; Wallace, A. R. 1871. Contributions to the theory of natural selection. A series of essays. Second edition, with corrections and additions. London: Macmillan & Co.
4
Tuttle, Hudson (1836-1910). American Spiritualist author, publisher, and lecturer.

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Transcribed by Johnston, Rebekah [2020-06-09] Transcription checked by Costa, Leslie [2020-12-17] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

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