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The Dell, Grays, Essex

April 24, 1874

Dear Miss Buckley

On coming home this evening I received the news of poor little Bertie's death — this morning at eight o'clock. I left him only yesterday forenoon, and had then considerable hope, for we had just commenced a new treatment which a fortnight earlier I am pretty sure might have saved him. The thought suddenly struck me to go to Dr. Williams, of Hayward's Heath...but it was too late. As he had been in the same state of exhaustion for nearly a month, it is evident that very slight influences might have been injurious or beneficial. Our orthodox medical men are profoundly ignorant of the subtle influences of the human body in health and disease, and can thus do nothing in many cases which Nature would cure if assisted by proper conditions. We who know what strange[2] [p. 193] and subtle influences are around us can believe this...

Yours very truly| Alfred R. Wallace