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[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
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.
Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3479.2966)]
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