TO THE EARL STANHOPE.

MY LORD,

Several months had already passed in vain attempts to persuade the learned men of your country to study the phenomena of Animal Magnetism. My numerous appeals for an examination of these new facts had remained unanswered; and both the press and public opinion—which my experiments at the North London Hospital A teaching hospital in London where controversial early magnetism experiments took place. should have enlightened—had instead turned against me. These obstacles seemed insurmountable, as only one voice had been raised in my defense at that time. With a heavy heart, I was about to abandon the plan I had formed to spread magnetism in England and take this important discovery of Animal Magnetism to another people.

You encouraged me, my Lord; you gave me hope for a favorable change in...