WCP4162

Letter (WCP4162.4184)

[1]

The Review of Reviews

Edited by W. T. Stead

Mowbray House

Norfolk Street, Strand

London. W.C.

September 13th. 1906.

Dr. A. Russell[sic] Wallace,

Broadstone,

Wimborne,

Dear Dr Wallace,

In the last letter I had from you you criticised "Letters from Julia"1 on the ground that she not enter into details as to what she had for dinner on the other side. I wonder if you have seen the book privately published in America called "Interwoven"2, the result of automatically written messages from a young doctor who has passed over. I take the liberty of sending you a copy of the book in the hope that it may interest you.

Hoping that you are well, | I am, | Yours sincerely, | W. T. Stead3. [signature]

1
This was a text purported to be written by Stead via automatic writing. It was originally published in Stead’s spiritualist journal, Borderlands (1893-7). It was later published as After Death: Letters from Julia (1905).
2
Sarah Louise Ford, Interwoven: letters from a son to his mother (Boston: George H. Ellis, 1905). It is within this work that the letter was inserted by Wallace.
3
Stead, William Thomas (1849-1912). English journalist and editor. He became famous as being a pioneer of investigative journalism especially in regards to his campaign to raise the age of consent. He edited the Pall Mall Gazette (1883-9) before starting the monthly journal Review of Reviews which he edited (and largely wrote) from 1890 to his death on the RMS Titanic in 1912. He also wrote works on Spiritualism including a journal, Borderlands, which ran from 1893 to 1897.

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Transcribed by Lester, Ahren [2013-04-16] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-04-16]

Please cite as “WCP4162,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 6 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4162