spiritualism 



experiment, was published in the Philosophical Magazine, 

 and also in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical 

 Kesearch (Vol. I.). 



To Prof. Barrett 



RosehiU, Dorking. December 18, 1876. 



My dear Prof. Barrett, — ... I see you are to lecture 

 at South Kensington the end of this month (I think), and 

 if you can spare time to run down here and stay a night 

 or two we shall be much pleased to see you, and I shall 

 be greatly interested to have a talk on the subject of your 

 paper, and hear what further evidence you have obtained. 

 I want particularly to ask you to take advantage of any 

 opportunity that you may have to test the power of sensi- 

 tives to see the " flames " from magnets and crystals, as 

 also to feel the influence from them. This is surely a matter 

 easily tested and settled. I consider it has been tested and 

 settled by Keichenbach, but he is ignored, and a fresh proof 

 of this one fact, by indisputable tests, is much needed ; and 

 a paper describing such tests and proofs would I imagine be 

 admitted into the Proceedings of any suitable society. 



You will have heard no doubt of the Treasury having 

 taken up the prosecution of Slade. Massey the barrister, 

 one of the most intelligent and able of the Spiritualists 

 (whose aecession to the cause is due, I am glad to say, to 

 my article in the Fortnightly), proposes a memorial and 

 deputation to the Government protesting against this prose- 

 cution by the Treasury on the ground that it implies that 

 Slade is an habitual impostor and nothing else, and that 

 in face of the body of evidence to the contrary, it is an un- 

 called-for interference with the private right of investigation 

 into these subjects. On such general grounds as these I 

 sincerely hope you will give your name to the memorial. 

 . . . —Yours very faithfully, A. R. Wallace. 



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