WCP2764

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TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS, “CROOKES, LONDON.”

TELEPHONE NO. 555, PADDINGTON.

FROM SIR WILLIAM CROOKES, F.R.S.,

7, KENSINGTON GARDENS,

LONDON, W.

March 5th, 1898.

My dear Wallace,

I am receiving letters from a Rev. Theodore Lyman Dean,¹ who, entre nous, is ^{appears to be2} as mad as a March hare — asking me to send them on to you. He does not know my address and sends them by circuitous routes, so that they have been much delayed in getting here. I cannot say I have read them carefully. The writing is so bad, and the diction so wild that under ordinary circumstances I should have thrown them into the waste paper basket at once. He, however, requests me to send them on to you, so as the subjects he writes about are in your line more than mine, it is possible that may not think him so mad as I in my ignorance do. I have not replied to him nor have given him your address. If they are rubbish burn them, I do not wish them returned.

With kindest regards to yourself and family, | believe me, | very sincerely yours, | William Crookes³ [signature].