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| Description | Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his daughter Violet from Boston, Sunday [Dec 1886] re a seance at which he observed the ghosts of an 'Indian man' and a baby; travel by sleeping-car from Baltimore; 'white and black' populations in Boston and Baltimore.
Name: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Wallace, [Violet Isabel], born 1869
Place: Boston Massachusetts USA
Notes: On a small piece of paper torn from a larger sheet |