WCP4318

Letter (WCP4318.4459)

[1]

CORFE VIEW,

PARKSTONE,

DORSET.

Oct.[ober] 1st. 1891.

Dear Mr. Flower1

I much apologise for not earlier replying to your letter about the American Psychical Society. I have only just come across it, and cannot recollect even reading it before! I fear it must have got mislaid at the time and overlooked till now. It is dated April 14th! And I sh[oul]d have received it at a time when I was very busy.

[2] I am afraid I cannot give you anything of much use for your Society as my experience has been less extensive than that of most enquirers, and I have already published most of my own experiences of any importance. I send you however a short statement of an experience while in America which may perhaps come under the class of cases you desire. I am sorry if it is not more startling [3] or uncommon, but it seems to me to be clearly beyond thought reading &c. even if we exclude the difficulty of how the messages were written.

A few weeks back I sent you one article from the "Arena".

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

B.O. Flower Esq.

Benjamin Orange Flower (1859-1918), editor of the American magazine The Arena from 1889 to 1909.

Please cite as “WCP4318,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4318