Stuk 135 - Letter from Henry Sidgwick to F. W. H. Myers

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Regrets having missed him Claims that in writing his note to Crookes it became clear to him that they had better not allude 'to "uncorrected proof" etc'. Is of the opinion that Crooke's letter 'had better be brief and as polite in form as possible', and convey the fact that neither he nor his hearers believed that the evidence for telepathy 'appeared to be sufficient to justify a serious attempt at a physical hypothesis...' Suggests that Crookes might add that he '[ ] guarded himself against the idea that he was offering a complete physical [ ].'