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I am overwhelmed with work for our case. Never before has our Imperial city been so excited and aroused by Spiritualism, as it has been during the last two months. You know the details of what occurred from reading Prof Wagner’s report which I mailed you some time ago. First result of our seances was an account, by the same professor, a the German language, which I sent you in the periodical, then appeared his letter in Russian, to the editor of the Messenger of Europe ; which letter must hereafter to be regarded as marking an epoch in the history of Spiritualism in Russia. It is the first article that has been constantly increasing, while our winter seances were in progress, reached the culmination upon the publication of the Professor’s article. The scandal caused by it in the press was incredibly great, {{Style S-HPB SB. Lost|}} the spirit of opposition immense. All the newspapers {{Style S-HPB SB. Lost|}} hold of it at once. At this moment of writing, my desk {{Style S-HPB SB. Lost|...erally}} covered with written and printed protests. I count thirty articles—illustrations and monuments of popular ignorance—full of raillery, abuse, and stupidity, which have been showered like rain upon the head of our courageous professor, the representative of science in Russia, who dared to observe facts and see Truth in a quarter where public opinion could only find crazy illusions and mountebankery.