From T. H. Noyes 19 November 1878
85 Gloucester Road NW
19.11.78
Dear Sir
Your family I know to be investigators of Wallace & Crookes & Varleys occult philosophy1 & you ought to be if you are not, for were you to become a friend of Celestials disincarned your bodily ailments would vanish like the chaff before the wind and you would be set free to enjoy life once more & utilise your great talents for the good of this woeful world of ignorance prejudice & guile. I am one of those much maligned sinners called Mediums & as I am a graduate in honors of Ch Ch & nephew of an Arch Bishop & a friend of one two Primates & allied to many of our ducal families and heir male of one of the most ancient ducal families in Gt Britain myself,2 if I am not wrongly informed, I think I am entitled to be believed & esteemed a Credible witness when being the author of that logical Theological work ‘Hymns of Modern Man’3 I affirm that I receive direct & conscious inspiration from celestials who seem to be as nearly omniscient as they are supposed to be. I have by their favour the gift of healing all occult diseases in man & Beast & Bird—and if the great Naturalist will only condescend to follow the example of numberless sick bodies unable to find relief at the hands of the Royal College of empirics who claim to be Physicians and are Quacks & ignorami & impostors 9 times out of 10 in all difficult & obscure ailments, Health shall supersede disease, & Platinum 15 grams & Osmium 5 grams & Indium 3 grams sponge Powder given in small doses in guava Jelly: as above notes if taken regularly & daily & every day fasting for 7 weeks will remove all distressing symptoms, & if this Rosicrucean course of Tonic be commenced by a Course of saturated Tincture of Rum Tox, as made by Field & Co of Holborn, with Rum instead of Spirits of Wine, on 4 Teaspoonful doses, given in Port wine negus sweetened with Honey &, before Breakfast, for 7 weeks, without missing a single day, no hale sexagenarian in Europe will enjoy better health than the revived Naturalist C.W D.4
faithfully yours | T H Noyes
Footnotes
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Summary
THN, a medium with a gift to cure occult diseases, outlines a course of treatment to remedy CD’s ailments.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11749
- From
- Thomas Herbert Noyes
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Gloucester Rd, 85
- Source of text
- DAR 201: 28
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11749,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11749.xml
