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The Laboratory

Yardley Fields

Yardley

Feb 12^th 1901

Dear D^r Wallace

A short time ago being anxious to develope[sic] certain phases of my own mediumship wh have been in an embryotic condition for a long time I got my neice ^{(Mrs Kenyon)} to undertake a ^foraging-scouting expedition among London Media ^{& spiritualists} — Among others she visited a Mrs Bathe & learned from her much about the very interesting Foxwell case & the finding of the poor fellow’s body — in the course of conversation in transpired that you were associated with the investigation — There are two phases of this question in wh I am now particularly interested so-called clairvoyance & whether there is any certainty whatever in materialist phenomena — I am interested in them as matters of scientific investigation and not from the point of view of the existence of spirits — a fact of wh I have had personally the amplest proof for nearly forty years — during this period I have been [illeg.] attempting to reduce the next mass of ^complex [illeg.] facts to simple principles of law & order — From the brief conversation I was priviledged [sic] to have with you one evening at the only meeting of the SPR I ever attended, I feel quite sure you will be willing to render me all the advice and assistance in your power. The death of your friend Mr Myers¹ was a great blow to me for I had thought when he ^had turned the corner and recognised spirit in the phenomena he had so ably & devotedly studied to buttress him with all my might but this was evidently not in the programme.

With Kind regards | I remain | yours sincerely | Richard Norris² [signature]