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My Dear Mr Wallace

Mr Guppy 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 wife 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 Sims give my Love to her and [2] Love to Mrs Wallace and Children

I remain dear Mr Wallace | Very Very Truly | Eliz[abe]th Guppy¹ [signature]

My dear Wallace

If you knew the [illeg.] heaped upon my Head for that unfortunate forgetfulness — by Miss Nicholl¹ [illeg.] is [illeg.] 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] conditions—

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[?] [illeg.] (plan[?] for me) for go once.

I see you don't like writing so wont[sic] [illeg.] any more till I hear from you — [2 words illeg.] suppose I could write a [illeg.] so well as you. God Almighty made a 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 [illeg.]

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

Talked[?] yest[terday][?] and an English lady she adheres to[?] Moses that Wesley & [3 words illeg.] — That Moses [4 words illeg.] what affects the female mind [illeg.] — Man is but a [illeg.] animal [illeg.] I mean. If [illeg.] had M^rs Wallace hen 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 also which hop about the room & on us.

You seem to have had no summer at all & now on 2 m[onth]^s 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[sic] 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 Guppy¹ [signature]