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Autograph Letter Signed ‘Gerald Massey’, addressed “Gentlemen”, thanking them for Morley’s little book, wishing “to see my own verse got up like that”, referring to a Times controversy, wondering whether they would be “open to a collection of the choicest lyrics in English from dead and living poets”. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. Ward’s Hurst, Kingshall, Hemel Hempstead, 22 August [watermark 1867]. Uncommon. Gerald Massey (1828 –1907), English poet and writer on Spiritualism and Ancient Egypt. Massey was a believer in spiritual evolution; he opined that Darwin’s theory of evolution was incomplete without spiritualism: In regard to Ancient Egypt, Massey first published The Book of the Beginnings, followed by The Natural Genesis. His most important work is Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World, published shortly before his death.