WCP4179

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1, Ethelbert Road,

Birchington Bay,

Thanet.

November 18^th1

Dear Sir

I hope you will not be annoyed at my writing— I really know it is a great piece of presumption on my part. But I have just finished your most interesting book "My Life"² & only wish there was yet another vol[ume] to go on with [2] it was so enjoyable— But the reason I am writing is, I am an old friend of the late Rev^d H M Flower’s[?]— & by his advice looked into Spiritualism. I became most interested in it & worked quietly till I had proof positive that I was in touch with a very old friend of ours D^r James Aveling³ of Wimpole Street— who had died about [3] three years before— First came his automatic writing, then I became clairvoyant, & then clairaudient & now I can think to him with the

greatest ease. The writing came in his own hand— & thought as you knew M^r Flowers, and the D^r was a friend of his also, that you might like to see a little pamphlet that I wrote for him⁴— he wanted it for a few old friends & patients [4] especially for an old friend going abroad— & it was brought out in a great hurry— & although I took great care in correcting the proofs— It is full of [one word illegible] errors, making it almost incoherent at times. But still I thought you might like to see it. Please do not think of troubling to acknowledge it. But as I am looked upon by so many of my friends as a [one word illegible] of Witch, or mad, or bad [5] it was a real comfort to read & pass on to them your opinion of the subject.

Again wishing I have not annoyed you by writing.

I am dear Sir | Faithfully yours | Anna M. Jarvis. [signature]