My dear Darwin

I did not reply yesterday about the Spiritualists as I expected that day & this to have heard from M^r. Home & Crookes is out of town.¹

It will give me great pleasure to do what I can, for Lord Sackville Cecil but rather doubt whether I shall have power to do much. I can’t myself get to these séances as often as I like— indeed I have had no opportunity for a long time past. The fact is, that first class mediums are very few in number & are always ailing— Also that Crookes & others are working their very best at the subject and entertain a full belief that they will be able to establish something important and lastly what, I see, is a real difficulty with them, the introduction of a stranger always disturbs the séances. I say all this to excuse me in your eyes, if I dont fulfil your wishes as you w^d. like, but I will do my best & write—whenever I have anything to say, to L^d. S. Cecil as you propose.

The person most likely to help would, I think, be Lord Lindsay.²

I wonder if I have offended Home by my last letter to him— he has never replied & I hear incidentally there is to be an important seance this very night! Alas for me.

Ever yours sincerely | Francis Galton