Letter to Seymour (2 november 1920)
This letter was written by Arthur Conan Doyle on 2 november 1920 from The Grand Hotel, Melbourne, Australia, to a Seymour.
Letter
My dear Seymour
No, your Russian idea though noble & unselfish is, I am sure, extravagant. You have to clear duty with your regiment, your family and your surroundings. Do not reach out for more, but if more is ordained it will come to you with no doubt and no effort. If you take this spiritual matter seriously & quickly not only cultivate it but spread it around you, you will do great work. God has His own purposes in Russia and will pick up the right tool for His work, without the tool needing to worry over it.
I send you a "Harbinger of Light" with some accounts of my doings. Up to now I have been greatly upheld & feel as fit as when I started. Adelaide was glorious. Melbourne is heavy and material but we make an impression. I have one last meeting — which will be a bumper — and then to Sydney where we culminate, for New Zealand is of smaller importance. I am glad I came — but I never had much say in the matter — a tool also, but a very willing one.
I expect you will soon be in India again. Good luck to you wherever you go. Buy spiritual books freely for there is no such investment. Anything by or about Mrs. Emma Hardinge Britton is worth getting — "Autobiography", "19th Century Miracles", "American Spiritualism". She was a female St Paul, with a man's virile brain, clear, fearless & herself a great medium. In A. J. Davis, Hardinge Britton, Stainton Moses, and Vale Owen you have the spiritual sequence.
- All remembrances to your wife when you write.
- A Conan Doyle.
