An Original Handwritten Letter Signed by the Poet and the Founder of the Society for Psychical Research Frederic William Henry Myers to Lady Maine. Dated 1888. A letter to Lady Maine passing him on his condolences for the death of her husband and that a memorial should be undertaken. Frederic William Henry Myers 1843-1901 was a British poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research. Myers' work on psychical research and his ideas about a "subliminal self" were influential in his time, but have not been accepted by the scientific community. However, in 2007 a team of cognitive scientists at University of Virginia School of Medicine, led by Edward F. Kelly published a major empirical-theoretical work, Irreducible Mind, citing various empirical evidence that they think broadly corroborates Myer's conception of human self and its survival of bodily death. Size is 138mm x 94mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. Gum marks to blank rear.