To G. J. Romanes 21 September [1878]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Sept 21st
My dear Romanes.
If you do not take in the Spiritualist, order the copy published last Thursday.— It contains a splendid exposure of your friend (is this not unkind?) Williams.— H. Wedgwood brought it here: he admits that Williams is proved a rogue, but declares that he is a medium, & that he (H. Wedgwood) has himself seen John King, notwithstanding the old beard & old dirty ghost-clothes! Is this not a psychological curiosity?2
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Oppenheim, Janet. 1985. The other world: spiritualism and psychic research in England, 1850–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Romanes, Ethel Duncan. 1896. The life and letters of George John Romanes M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Summary
Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11699
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George John Romanes
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.548)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11699,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11699.xml
