WCP3423

Letter (WCP3423.2910)

[1]

Ventilation Villa,

27 Grange Road,

Edinburgh

11th. April 1873.

Alfred Wallace, Esquire, F. R. S.

Sir,

Privately the admiring the public spiritedness of every man who, in the cause of any new truth boldly expresses his most honest convictions, will you kindly inform me, at your earliest convenience, whether it would be quite agreeable to your feelings to be unanimously elected an Honorary member of the Psychological Society of Edinburgh?1

Trusting that you will pardon the liberty of a stranger and give this note a "Stranger's welcome"[.]

I have the honor to be | Sir, Your most obed[ien]t. serv[an]t. | J.D. Morrison [signature]

1
A committee of the Psychological Society of Edinburgh was formed in 1873 to report on spiritualist phenomena. The members of the society included William Crookes and Serjeant Cox. (Dallas, H. A. 1908. Direct Spirit Phenomena. Light: A Journal of Psychical, Occult and Mystical Research. 28: 1347. 355-356. [p.355]).

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Transcribed by Hall, Sophia [2015-06-08] Transcription checked by Beros, Matt [2020-03-19]

Please cite as “WCP3423,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3423