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WCP3442

Letter (WCP3442.2929)

[1]

Leckhampton House,

Cambridge.

June 28/88

My dear Mr Wallace

Thank you for your words of sympathy, & of honour to the departed.1 He would have deeply valued your approval.

How one feels the nothingness of all other questions beside the great problem of after death.

If that is well, all is well.

I find strength in the hopes already acquired; tho I would they were stronger still. A severance like this tries faith to its foundation.

Yours most truly | F W H Myers2 [signature]

1
The departed was Edmund Gurney. See WCP1573. https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1573
2
Myers, Frederic William Henry (1843-1901). British poet, classicist, philologist, and founder of the Society of Psychical Research. Brother of Arthur Thomas Myers.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3442.2929)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Paterson, Gavin [2020-03-23] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3442,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3442