"Soon after the meeting at Doctor Griswold's, I saw in the N. Y. _Evening Post_ (what was very proper--so far as it went, because it did not charge _you_ with originating these phenomena, but only disclaimed belief in their Spiritual nature), a sort of disclaimer evidently by one of the persons present who took the privilege of speaking for the others (or most of them). Now the fact is that, if anything which has engrossed a large share of public attention is really worthy of serious investigation, the _result of such investigation_ is equally worthy to be made publicly known. And as the prominent minds in New York can most effectually do this, they, or those of them who have had the opportunity to arrive at fair conclusions, ought to be willing to state that result in explicit language, over their proper signatures. It would be but a simple act of justice to you; a satisfaction to the multitudes who are prevented, by a thousand considerations, from seeing you; and no dishonor to them. Before you leave, if it meets the approbation of your best friends, I would have it done. It would give you a _vantage ground_, from whence you could all look down upon the miserable scribblers who have been eking out _their_ existence by abusing _you_. Write soon, and tell me what has transpired since your last letter. "My love to you all. "Yours truly, "J. E. ROBINSON." JOHN E. ROBINSON. "ROCHESTER, July 28, 1851. "DEAR FRIEND LEAH: "Your welcome letter came to me last Tuesday. I have been very anxious to hear from you. You write so seldom, and I am always anticipating your letters long before they reach me. I am sorry to learn that you have been afflicted, but frequently wonder you are not all sick from the effect of continued application to the duties which devolve on you. I sympathize with you often in your thousand and one perplexities of mind and body. It gives me pleasure to know that the friends stand by you through all trials; and you will, I doubt not, find in your mind that appreciation of them that will secure a pleasing recollection when you shall have left them. "You say that 'you all wish to come home, and will probably return _soon_.' Now, I wish I could believe that word has any significance in such connection; but it has become such a misnomer, in Spiritual things, that it is a great sinner.