Alfred
Russel Wallace : Alfred Wallace : A. R. Wallace :
Russel Wallace : Alfred Russell Wallace (sic)
Letter to Mrs. Nichols (S345a: 1881?)
Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: Wallace's reply to a request from Mrs. T. L. Nichols to vouch
for an imprisoned spiritualist. It was printed in the rather lengthy A Memorial to the Home
Secretary in Behalf of Mrs. Susan Willis Fletcher, A Spiritualist, Unjustly Condemned to Twelve
Months' Imprisonment With Hard Labour, probably in 1881. Original pagination indicated
within double brackets. To link directly to this page, connect with:
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[[p. 44]] Mr. Alfred Russell Wallace, F.R.G.S., the celebrated Naturalist and Author of one
of the best works on Spiritualism, writes to Mrs. Nichols:--
"July 16, 1881.
"Dear Madam,--My knowledge of Mrs. Fletcher is far too slight to render it proper that I
should give any testimony as to her character of which I really know nothing, except by report. It
appears that she does not want friends who do know her well, and esteem her highly. While
believing her to have been wrongly convicted of any fraud in the matter, yet, in the present state
of public opinion, and with the strong expressions of the judge against her, [[p. 45]] after hearing
all the evidence, I much fear you will obtain no remission of her very hard sentence.--Believe
me, yours faithfully,
"Alfred R. Wallace."
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