WCP6156

Letter (WCP6156.7130)

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2 RICHMOND TERRACE,

WHITEHALL, S.W.

11. Feb[ruary]. 1916

Dear Mr. Wallace2,

Since last June I have heard nothing from Mr. Marchant3 or yourself.

I understand that after going through your father’s letters you were going to write to me — & I was going to send you the letters that I have of D[octo]r. Wallace[’]s. This is how the matter stood — & you were going to say what letters you found of my Husband[’]s4[.] Since then I have heard nothing —

I should have been delighted to let you use some 50 letters — if you wished to do so. —

And to exchange with you your Father’s letters for the same nos. [number] of my Husband’s, after you found out how many of my husband’s you could find. I asked you to call: as it is easier to explain than to write about certain matters —.

I received a line & the enclosed from Mr. Marchant yesterday, & called at his office & was told he was away: & they could not give me his address.

So I send you this line to say that you are welcome to publish the enclosed5, & I shall be [2] pleased to send you the letters of D[octo]r. Wallace — & to hear what letters of my Husband’s have been found by you since last June. -

Believe me | Yours truly | Eveleen Myers6 [signature]

I you care to call here I can see you — & would prefer handing you the letters. -

My Mother is dangerously ill since last June — her life hanging between life and death. —

The page is numbered WP16/1/98 [1 of 3] in pencil in the top RH corner.
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
Marchant, James (1857-1956) Free Church minister, social activist and philanthropist.
Myers, Frederic William Henry (1843-1901) English poet, classicist, philologist and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research. His ideas about a "subliminal self" were influential in his time, but not accepted by the scientific community.
"So I send you this line to say that you are welcome to publish the enclosed" is underlined in pencil.
Myers, Eveleen Tennant (1856-1937) English photographer. Married Frederic William Henry Myers (see Endnote 4) in 1880.

Please cite as “WCP6156,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6156