2 Bristol Road
Southsea
June 8th 1913
Dear Sir
Pardon me for [1 word illeg.] to write you much happiness strength & inspiration today your 90th birthday & may it continue for so long as your spirit much the [1 word illeg.] from [2 words illeg.] truly[?] when then many you [2 word illeg.] joyfully & fearing into the higher [1 word illeg.] life within the atmosphere. When times even[?] & one long day exists soon [1 word illeg.] very unceasingly[?]? By what and may we [1 word illeg.] have time to fulfill all the duties[?] towards[?] the perfecting of the destiny of the human soul. [2] Sir you want, you for your noble work in the [1 word illeg] of time psychic[?] from[?] would live to me something in you how look with reference[?] to other [2 words illeg.] in to the bank[?] of [1 word illeg.] an well an what hands they do not [1 word illeg.] between them at all which there methods are a displace [1 word illeg.] from with experience [1 word illeg.] among you.
With all kind regards | Your faithfully for truth | Wm Fitch-Ruffle [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 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP577