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7, Kensington Park Gardens.

London. W.

Nov 12th, 1891.

My dear Wallace,

I was very much disgusted to see such an account in the Daily News of the experiments with Mrs. Abbott.¹ I should have written it in a very different way. Some of the things we saw were undoubtedly done by muscular power and skill, and the rest might have been equally simple in their explanation. I was much interested in the performance but came away with the feeling that I had seen nothing to show that any mediumistic powers were concerned. The lifting was very curious, but I see how it might be effected.

I was sorry to have missed you at the meeting and subsequent dinner last week. I hope you will soon be up again. I seldom miss a S.P.R.² meeting.

With kind regards, Believe me | William Crookes³ [signature]