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States that he is quite willing to enter into negotiations with the Newcastle medium. Asks for more information about her. Confesses that he does not quite like what Myers told him about Mrs Fay, and says she told Gurney at Brighton that Sidgwick 'had behaved to her "like a perfect gentleman" or something of that sort.' Claims also that she is not as frank as she seems. States that he still has perfect faith in her, but that this now depends merely on personal impression, supported by Myers', and Gurney's and Crooke's. Feels that he must now drop her and Mrs Jencken out of his ' "Case for Spiritualism" '. Complains about their disagreeableness and 'their persistent and singular frustrations'. Announces that he intends to have some more séances with Herne in December, and will join with Myers in the negotiations with Newcastle, 'especially since the Never-failing Crookes is not to appear in the rôle of Triumphant Liberator till the end of January'. Send his regards to Myers' mother, and declares that he shall be very glad to go to Brandon House [Myers' house at Cheltenham] some time during the F[ ] Season.
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Part transcription in Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, E. M, 'Henry Sidgwick'. London: Macmillan, 1906, p 294-295.
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- Myers, Frederic William Henry (1843-1901), psychical researcher and essayist (Subject)
- Fay, Anna Eva (1851-1927) medium (Subject)
- Gurney, Edmund (1847–1888) psychical researcher and psychologist (Subject)
- Crookes, Sir William (1832–1919) Knight, chemist and science journalist (Subject)
- Jencken, Catherine (1837-1892) medium, née Kate Fox (Subject)
- Herne, Francis Gideon (1850-1887) medium (Subject)
- Myers, Susan Harriet (1811-1896), wife of Frederic Myers, sister of Cordelia Whewell (Subject)