WCP3479

Letter (WCP3479.2966)

[1]

Acknowledged

[383]

3 Goodwin Rd

Forest Gate

E[ngland]

Jan 22. [19]11

Dear Dr Wallace

I have just read in Light" a short review of your book "God & His Creating Angels"

As I read I felt you were with me in spirits & that I could with pleasure have grasped your hand

I seem to enter so clearly into your theory & must present my warmest [2] thanks for the help you have been to me.

Having thought so much on the same subjects it is delightful to much with a souls influence such as yours "even in prints" you increase my power in arguments which I have occasionally with two materialists who can never imagine anything beyond Hackle"

I know what you tell, is real truth for you.

I have been a member [3] [384] of the L.S.A.1 twenty two years & the Spiritual philosphy [sic] has been my greatest pleasure, I have read some of your books which have helped out many ideas.

Thanking you again for the expression of your thoughts.

I have written this on the impulse of the moment, I might not have done or had I stopped to consider

I remain in

Grateful sympathy

Yours sincerely

Ellen Colyer [signature] 2

L.S.A. possibly stands for the London Spiritualist Alliance. Changed its name to the College of Psychic Science (1955) and College of Psychic Studies (1970).

Colyer, Ellen, possibly Dr Ellen Colyer who appeared to "advertise" in the Light: A Journal of Psychical, Occult and Mystical Research XVII (859): 303 (June 26, 1897).

"I should be very pleased to give the benefit of my experience and investigations to any earnest inquirer; I have derived immense satisfaction from Spiritualism and do not feel it right to keep the knowledge to myself. Every morning from 10 to 12:30; every evening (except Thursday) from six to nine. Box bus passes my house, or train from Liverpool-street to Coborn-road. Address of advertiser listed as 475 Mile end-road, Bow, E.

Please cite as “WCP3479,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 3 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3479