WCP3436

Meredith, Gloucester

27^th October, 1875.

Dear Mr Wallace

It is now several years since I last had the pleasure of seeing you, but you may perhaps remember my visiting you more than once at Barking with Mr Hope¹ of Parsloes and Mr Robert C. Graham,² when I was [2] in Parliament. I venture to send you a short pamphlet written by my brother,³ a member of the Indian Civil Service, hoping that you may have time to read it and perhaps to tell me in a very few words what you think of it. To me, it appears to be very logical & convincing. [3] I have just been reading with great interest your last publication on Spiritualism. I have seen something of the subject at various times, and although I am unable to accept the Spiritualistic explanation of the phenomena, I cannot doubt the genuineness of the phenomena themselves, nor the good faith of many of those, through whom they appear to be produced. [4] I believe that no thinking man, who takes any pains to enquire into these phenomena, will come to the conclusion that they are all the result of fraud, or hallucination; at least I have never met any such person.Those who take such a view of a Spiritualism are people who have never taken the trouble to enquire.

Believe me | yours very faithfully, | David Wedderburn⁴ [signature]