The Priory, 21 North Bank, April 10, 1879.
My dear friend,--I have been long without sending you any sign (unless you have received a message from me through Mrs. Fields), but my heart has been going out to you and your husband continually as among the chief of the many kind beings who have given me their tender fellow-feeling in my last earthly sorrow ... When your first letter came, with the beautiful gift of your book,1 I was unable to read any letters, and did not for a long time see what you had sent me. But when I did know, and had read your words of thankfulness at the great good you have seen wrought by your help, I felt glad, for your sake first, and then for the sake of the great nation to which you belong.
The hopes of the world are taking refuge westward, under the calamitous conditions, moral and physical, in which we of the elder world are getting involved ....
Thank you for telling me that you have the comfort of seeing your son in a path that satisfies your best wishes for him. I like to think of your having family joys.
One of the prettiest photographs of a child that I possess is one of your sending to me ....
Please offer my reverential, affectionate regards to your husband, and believe me, dear friend,
Yours always gratefully, M. L. Lewes.
As much as has been said with regard to spiritualism in these pages, the subject has by no means the prominence
