WCP3497

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[before 1875]

My Dear Mr Wallace

M^r Guppy¹ did neglect to tell me you had talked and I was greatly astonished knowing how much he esteemed you not only for your goodness to me when I wanted A Friend but for your other distinguished qualitys [sic] and I likewise missed seing [sic] your excellent wife² who treated me so kindly but I badgered the poor man so for his neglect and there was A number of things troubling him that I quite forgave him and I am sure you will never think of it again. I wish dear Mr Wallace I could be with you and Dear Mrs Wallace and my old Friend Mrs Sims³ give my Love to her and [2] love to Mrs Wallace and Children⁴

I remain dear Mr Wallace | very very Truly | Elizth Guppy⁵ [signature]

My dear Wallace

If you knew the reproaches heaped upon my Head for that unfortunate forgetfulness — by Miss Nicholl⁶ [illeg.] is still Miss N. to you — you would not torture me by reproaches which go through me like a pin through an unfortunate Butterfly's body when you do him the honor to make a specimen of him.

I see the Dialectic are sticking where several [2 words illeg.] in America stuck on their studies of Spiritualism.

Can't get manifestations — The Spirit is something like a Child — [illeg.] go into a Nursery & you find a Child rotting away never stopping — Take that Child out & put it in presence of 10 grave men — it is mute & is dumb — you cant get a word out of it — It is case of [3] [illeg.] —

I hope the [illeg.] of the evidences — Communication — [illeg.] &c &c &c of the Dialectical will be published afterwards in a special Volume. I will subscribe (please for me) for go one.

I see you don't like writing so wont [illeg.] any more till I hear from you –You didn’t suppose I could write a [illeg.] so well as you. God Almighty made Monkey; with different [illeg.] Tails — & men of different Capacity —

We are in the great heats — that is 80 in house out of house perhaps 90 on Sun burning[.]

We get 2[illeg.] ripe figs & 2[illeg.] of fine ripe Peaches daily — [2 words illeg.] opened —

Talked yest. and an English lady she adheres to Moses that Wesley & [3 words illeg.] — That Moses wander 2000 years ago [illeg.] what affects the female mind [illeg.] — Man is but a [illeg.] animal woman I mean – If Lizzie had M^rs Wallace here for an hour she would tell [4] her such a doleful story about her aches & pains and sufferings from baby dancing [2 words illeg.] of her —

We've 2 lame magpies for the nest & a lame thrush [illeg.] which hop about the room & on us.

You seem to have had no summer at all & now on 2 m^ts you will have it cold again —

Those Lords are making [illeg.] of themselves about the Church D & D ball — The Church of England will be d & dd soon the Sooner the better — & the Pope will be d & d too —

The Italians wont have any religion at any price — say it is a theory that can't be defined & explained — & so won't have it at all —

I remain dear Wallace | yours very truly | Sam^l. Guppy [signature]