WCP3475

Letter (WCP3475.2962)

[1]1

The Vicarage

Weston

Otley

[Yorkshire]

May 28th [19]092

Dear Sir3

I am very much obliged to you indeed for your great kindness in allowing me to refer to your Autobiography4 due acknowledgement will be made in the preface[.] [2] No I have not read the book[?] you mention but will do so on the first opportunity.

Sincerely yours| C L Tweedale5 [signature]

I may inform you in confidence at present that I have had an extraordinary series of manifestations which have come unsought & are more wonderful than the famous Epworth case (Wesley)6 [.]

1
Page numbered 372 in pencil in top RH corner.
2
Year deduced from birth date of author.
3
Recipient is ARW, although not stated elsewhere in the letter.
4
Wallace, A. R. (1905) My Life; A Record of Events and Opinions Vols. 1 & 2. London, Chapman Hall.
5
British Museum stamp underneath.
6
Wesley, John (1703-1791). Anglican theologian and a founder the evangelical Methodist movement. At Epworth parsonage a rapping sound imitated the knock at the gate of Wesley’s father and responded to the word ‘Amen’, thus connecting an example of unexplained phenomena occurring at the home of someone of unimpeachable religious character, with the new unexplained phenomenon of spiritualism. The story was told in the first edition of the Spiritualist magazine, (1869), in an attempt to establish its credentials as a serious religious newspaper.

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3475.2962)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2015-06-10] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-06-10] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10]

Please cite as “WCP3475,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3475