WCP3455

Letter (WCP3455.2942)

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7, Kensington Park Gardens.

London. W.

Nov[ember] 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 my 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 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 Crookes [signature]

Haygood, Annie Dixie aka Annie Abbott (1861-1915). American stage magician.
S.P.R Society of Physical Research, founded in London in 1882.

Please cite as “WCP3455,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3455