[in ARW’s hand] Ansd
2 Bristol Road
Southsea
Jan 8th 1913
Dear Sir
pardon me for presuming to wish you much happiness strength & inspiration today your 90th birthday & may it continue for as long as your spirit finds the outward form to expire itself & when & then may you glide silently joyfully & fearlessly into the higher & truer life within the atmos=phere– when time comes & one long day exits can we say unceasingly? be that as it may we shall have time to fulfill all the desires towards the perfecting of the destiny of the human soul. [2] Sir, In [illeg.], you for your noble work in the cause of true psychic power, would like to me something in your new book with reference to other [illeg.] invasion into the ranks of psychics as well as their friends they do not discriminate between them at all whist their methods are a disgrace & I speak from bitter experience I can assure you.
With all kind regards | Your faithfully for truth | Wm Fitch-Ruffle1,2 [signature] | psychic
Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP577.577)]
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Envelope addressed to "Sir Alfred Russel c/o Psychical Research Society, London, W.", redirected to "Broadstone, Wimbourne, Dorset", with stamps, postmarked "PORTSMOUTH | 6: 45PM | JAN 8 13"; additional postmark on front. Pencil annotations are written in ARW's or W. G. Wallace's hand on front and back of envelope; on front: "Ansd" and on back: "W. Fitch = Ruffle". [Envelope (WCP577.1519)]
Please cite as “WCP577,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on