WCP2588

[1]

18 Cornwall Terrace

Regents Park, N.W.

Feb. 20 1880.

My dear Sir,

I am exceedingly pleased to hear that you are so disposed to assist me with your advice. Time, money, tolerance & patience I have in abundance, but I lack experience in a subject wh[ich]. till recently I regarded as beneath consideration. Therefore, [2] under various circumstances that may arise I doubt not that your advice may be of much service to me.

Thus, already you have represented a point of no small importance to me — viz. that I must not count too confidently on being always able to repeat the results, even supposing them to be genuine. But, after all, my principal object is to satisfy my own mind [3] upon the subject. If I could obtain any definite evidence of Mind as unassociated with any observable organization, the fact would be to me nothing less than a revelation — "life & immortality brought to light," — and altho[ugh]. I might say to others "come & see", my chief end would have been attained if I could say — I have found that of which the prophets (to wit, Crookes¹, Wallace, Varley², & the rest) have spoken.

[4]³I will therefore be most happy to accept your invitation to go to Croydon some day to have gain some preliminary ideas on the subject. But as I have to go to Scotland for a week or two, this cannot be till the middle or end of March. I shall write again to fix a day.

Meanwhile, with many thanks, | I remain, | Yours faithfully, | G.J. Romanes [signature]

A. R. Wallace Esq.