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'Of course I am an unknown woman without money or honor BUT I can fight and I SHALL until I am recognized by the great colleges of the world.

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'Yours for TRUE science,

'Mrs. May Barnard Wiltse.'

'I have written to you so many times asking for an interview but you ignore my letters. Doctor Ricard did NOT, he answered every letter I wrote, and marveled at my work of the ancient alchemists and TRUE astronomers. I have written to many Scientific Journals and told them to keep my letters on file so as to KNOW I WAS FIRST in discovering the LAWS of nature before any modern scientific man did.'

Mrs. Wiltse reminds me very strongly of Mrs. Montague:

'I KNOW just exactly the working of God's Dynamo and I am going to write to the Royal Society of London and tell them exactly WHY the sun is a Dynamo and the Universe a Magnetic Field surrounding the sphere. Why you astronomers will not acknowledge my works I CANNOT understand. Are you jealous of me as a simple woman or what?'

'In 1916, I went to Washington, D.C., and transmuted silver into gold for the United States government and I have their reports. BUT IT WAS HUSHED up for reasons I cannot explain.'

-- May Barnard Wiltse to Dr. George E. Hale, 1932

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-- Charles V. Carrol, via telegram

P.O. Argle, 1930, believes there is no such thing as gravity, that the Moon is made of pumice stone, and there is 'male' and 'female' light:

'The Moon is a great reflector of light, but a sorry condenser. It being a soft substance it does not catch or hold light[;] the heavy light mearly passes through it while the soft and bright light glances off. This is why we get no heat from the moon that amounts to anything.'

'The Hindus in the Rigveda tell us about Heaven - that was beyond the dawn. This means that to the Hindus in India - Heaven was beyond 105 or 120 degrees of longitude east from India - as the dawn means east from any place - and in the Rigveda the place was India. 105 or 120 degrees of longitude east would be a long way to Heaven - now called America.'

-- same Flat Earther, inexplicably using globe coordinates

'The builders of Greece came from a country west from Egypt beyond the ocean - which of course was America. The authors of the Bible tell us that the father of Abraham came to Egypt or Palestine from over the flood - which means that the father of Abraham came from a country west from Egypt beyond the ocean - which of course means America.'

-- anonymous Flat Earther, and patriot

'I have writen a book (Will we know each other in heaven) I also have some astronomy in the book some of my friends thought I had better of left the astronomy out as that was God's buisness and that I or no one elce knew what the stars is some of them think that they are only little sulpher balls up in the sky[,] but if I could only have a scope to convince them of theyr ignorance I should be Glad.'

Oh, wait, not the Bible Belt:

'I have bin reading up quite a good deal of late since I have come to Calafornia on astronomy and hold it as a study next to my Bible for it is God's creation and worthy to be studied as all God loveing people should. For I have never seen an Infidel astronomer I think they are all true believers those that have viewed through the scope.'

This one - sent from somewhere in the Bible Belt during the Great Depression - is a combo rant/fan letter:

'Many other bible texts prove that God has made the worlds by millions and yet the minister did not believe that there were any other world only this one on which we live and it flat as a pancake round as a pancake but not round as a ball and that the sun did actualy go around this pancake every 24 hours.'

'Some time back I was asked if I knew what a rain bow was. I couldnt answer as I had not quite thought about it. But I think I can answer now. A rainbow is gathered up electricity & gases that could go off in lightening if allowed.'

'Some of those Planets you can see are like stations to do god's work. Venus is thickly blanketed with clouds, that is a place that stores the clouds. Jupiter be I suppose a storeplace for rain snow & hail. Others to keep air, wind, sunfire, wild fire, star fire, moisture, electricty, gases.'

-- Mrs. Alice May Williams, Auckland