WCP3480

Letter (WCP3480.2967)

[1]1

17 West Hill

Highgate

London N1.

30-1-1911

Dear Sir,

I venture to take the liberty of writing to you, because having just read your book "The World of Life" I have something to communicate which I think will interest you. It is that many years ago (over fifty years) I had three remarkable dreams clear, distinct impression [2] and full of wonder for me. The first was a dream experience of being soaring through the dimensions with Christ as my guiding influence.

It began here from this planet and with music the mind enchanting and such. And the stunner part of his is that I am wholly unmusical. Such scenery I have never seen before nor since. This dream gave to me ideas & ideals for garden cities and when his thought book "To Incar [one word illeg.]" was published the first part of it [3] I was quite familiar with in my own thoughts and had often given out the same 4 friends when on walking tours during holidays.

The second dream my experience was that I was in the next world of "heaven" as it is spoken of Christ Himself was my guide explaining which it was and which was the life there. From this I dream gathered impressions of religion, which presented my commentary myself with any discrimination. Also I saw or learned in this dream that the loosely[?] departed did influence life on this planet and really carried on progress by impart- [ 386] [4] new ideas and thing its [?] to human beings, I remember distinctly saying in any dream "but I don't see how it is done" (as in my mind I thought to do it the "angels" must be constantly writing people on the earth) the answer was by a force unseen, unintended but ???? the mind. This is suggestion.

The third dream was on matters private & personal.

I have only [1 word illeg.] these dreams in the [1 word illeg.] in time, where they have influenced my whole life. You [1 word illeg.] see that your book is profoundly interesting to me. I am an elderly person.

I remain | dear Sir | Yours truly | Massie C Nondry2 [signature]

Mr Alfred Russell Wallace

Answered written by hand in left hand side margin.
British Museum stamp underneath.

Please cite as “WCP3480,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3480