W. Crookes’s article ["Enquiry into phenomena called spiritual", Q. J. Sci. n.s. 4 (1874): 77–97] "staggers" her. Would like to know CD’s opinion.
W. Crookes’s article ["Enquiry into phenomena called spiritual", Q. J. Sci. n.s. 4 (1874): 77–97] "staggers" her. Would like to know CD’s opinion.
Sackville Cecil would like to be present with Francis Galton at one of William Crookes’s séances. Can CD arrange it?
Sends a bottle containing fish which Lord Arthur Russell had promised to send.
Thanks CD for telling her "such exact truth". She saw Thomas Carlyle at Keston – the country air has done him good – "he is half sorry to have been so unsociable on his first arrival".
Lord Derby was pleased by CD’s warm and genuine expression of approval [of his support of Vivisection Bill? see 9933].
Count Schouvaloff asserts that CD’s works are prohibited in Russia. Is he not mistaken?
Sends fragment of bone from the head of a fish called "Corbin", brought from River Plate by her brother.