WCP4763

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Parkstone, Dorset.

Sept[embe]r 27th. 1896

H. B. Samuels Esq.

Dear Sir

I do not intend writing again to the "Echo" on Spiritualism, but as you think the facts about the "Seybert Commission"¹ are of importance to the cause of truth, I will, if you like, lend you my copy of General Lippitt’s Answer², giving proofs of their unfairness & errors, with some MSS. notes of my own confirming his statements. Mr. S. Laing³sent me his book with the Chapter on Spiritualism from which you quote, & I wrote telling him that [2] he had made many errors & misstatements & that it was most unscientific of him to write on a subject of which he professedly knew almost nothing. His statements are of about as much value of those as P.A.S. (in Echo)[.]

If you will promise to return me Mr Le Gen[eral] Lippitt’s in a week or two, I shall be happy to [3] send it you.

I am glad you are interested in Social subjects and hope you are a Socialist, as I am. For most people this is a far more important object of study & work than Spiritualism, — but not for all.

Yours very truly | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]