Letter to Reverend Frederick Meyrick-Jones (18 june 1917)
This letter was written by Arthur Conan Doyle on 18 june 1917 from Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex, to Reverend Frederick Meyrick-Jones, an English clergyman, school teacher and cricketer.
Letter
June 18 /17
Dear Meyrick Jones
So glad to hear from you. I divide my time between the History of the War, and Psychic Research, and I don't know which is the more important, or rather I do know for the latter is permanent and the former temporary. I wonder if you have been brought in touch with Spiritualism at all. I can amazed at the indifference or even dislike shown by the clergy towards it for it cuts deeply with their province and on their best if not their only weapon, against intellectual materialism. It has altered my own whole view of life and death. I should recommend Barrett's new book "On the Threshold of the Unknown" as the most readable & reliable as to the physical side which is the base on which proof is built. "Raymond" and Stainton Moses' "Spirit Teachings" or Stead's "After Death" carry the physical on with the spiritual. Archdeacon Wilberforce was the first man who congratulated me when I came out as a Spiritualist. I have just been writing a preface for Rev. Ould Fielding pamphlet on the relation of spiritualism to the Scriptures. He is the Chaplain to the Guards and a fine brave fellow.
Well, excuse this which you have brought upon yourself. I should much enjoy a chat. I was a materialist but this thing has enlarged my horizon, as it did Ruskin's, but I wont show the ingratitude to it that he did.
- Yours always
- A. Conan Doyle.
