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March 14 / [18]80

20, Mornington Road,

London, N.W.

Dear Mr Wallace,

The enclosed curious letter has just reached me and on the envelope your name being most prominent I send it on to you.

The style in which the communication signed "Faraday" is written is totally unlike Faraday’s style which was very [2] characteristic. There is really not an original idea in the whole letter and it would have been impossible for Faraday to have written a quarter as much without saying something immensely worth remembering.

The photograph is a very good one of Faraday but I seem to recognise in it a well known picture of him and after the exposure of so many frauds it behoves me to be doubly cautious.

I am on the point of [3]¹ starting for Ireland where I expect to remain to be for a week.

Mrs Crookes joins me in kind regards to yourself & Mrs Wallace, hoping your family are all well

Believe me | very sincerely yours | William Crookes² [signature]