| Description | Correspondence from Mary Mackay, pseudonym Marie Corelli [1855-1924, novelist].
/1 Letter from Marie Corelli to Oliver Lodge, written from Mason Croft, Stratford-on-Avon, dated 28 December 1907, with envelope. Corelli discusses similarities between Lodge's 'Earth and Heaven' and her book 'A Romance of Two Worlds'. She writes that the character Heliobas was based on a friend who was working on radium long before the Curies and the book was intended to be a 'prophetic vision of what was bound to come'. She thinks Lodge's Catechism cannot be readily understood by the general public.
/2 Letter from Marie Corelli to Oliver Lodge, written from Mason Croft, Stratford-on-Avon, dated 31 December 1907, with envelope. Corelli insists that her friend knew about radium many years before its discovery was announced. She wrote 'A Romance of Two Worlds' to support her step-father. She is not a Theosophist.
/3 Letter from Marie Corelli to Oliver Lodge, written from Mason Croft, Stratford-on-Avon, dated 4 May 1923, with envelope. Having read Lodge's remarks on the possibilities of the atom, Corelli sends her book 'The Secret Power', 'in which I set forth what you treat of in the form of a "romance"'. She writes that humans should not tamper with the universe without God, but may attain wonders with God. |