Spiritualism * 



If you can get to see the last number of the Quarterly 

 Journal of Science, you will find a most important article 

 by Mr. Crookes, giving an outline of the results of his in- 

 vestigations, which he is going to give in full in a volume. 

 His facts are most marvellous and convincing, and appear 

 to me to answer every one of the objections that have 

 usually been made to the evidence adduced. . . . — ^Yours 

 very faithfully, Alfred R. Wallace. 



To Miss Buckley 



The Dell, Grays, Essex. February 28, 1874. 



Dear Miss Buckley, — I was much pleased with your long 

 and interesting letter of the 19th and am glad you are getting 

 on at last. It will be splendid if you really become a good 

 medium for some first-rate unmistakable manifestations 

 that even Huxley will acknowledge are worth seeing, and 

 Carpenter confess are not to be explained by unconscious 

 cerebration. . . . — Yours very faithfully, 



Alfred R. Wallace. 



To Miss Buckley 

 The DeU, Grays, Essex. March 9, 1874. 



Dear Miss Buckley, — I compassionate your mediumistic 

 troubles, but I have no doubt it will all come right in the 

 end. The fact that your sister will not talk a« you want 

 her to talk — will not say what you expect her to say, is 

 a grand proof that it is not your unconscious cerebration 

 that does her talking for her. Is not that clear ? Whether 

 it is she herself or someone else who is talking to you, 

 is not so clear, but that it is not you, I think, is clear 

 enough. 



I can quite understand, too, that your sister in her 

 new life may be, above all things, interested in getting the 



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