We have heard many more intimate personal relations from Americans who brush us with their garments as they pass through Florence, and I should like to talk these things over with you.

Paid mediums, as paid clairvoyants in general, excite a prejudice; yet, perhaps, not reasonably.

The curious fact in this movement is, however, the degree in which it works within private families in America.

Has anything of the kind appeared in England?
And has the motion of the tables ever taken the form of alphabetical expression, which has been the case in America?
I had a letter from Athens the other day, mentioning that 'nothing was talked of there except moving tables and spiritual manifestations.' (The writer was not a believer.) Even here, from the priest to the Mazzinian, they are making circles.

An engraving of a spinning table at a shop window bears this motto: '_E pur si muove!_' That's adroit for Galileo's land, isn't it?
Now mind you tell me whatever you hear and see.