[Illustration: My dear Mr. & Mrs. Underhill--
Can you come and take tea with us to-morrow evening? I do hope so. I want you socially--not =spiritually=. Mr. Oliver Johnson and Mr. Owen will be here, and both of them hope to meet you. Tea at six o'clock. Our number is 52 East 20th St. near the Fourth Ave.
Can you and Mr. Underhill drink tea with us tomorrow evening? Half past six is our hour. You will meet Mr. Davis of Washington, and probably Mr. Greeley
I have a gathering of spiritualists at my house on the first Monday evening of every month. The first one will be next Monday April 5=th= Will you come? You will meet many old friends
159 Lexington Avenue between 31st & 32d Street]
I thank you for your note just opened. I will try to call on you soon, but I am =very= busy.
I have a letter from my folks to-day. They are at Arcachon near Bordeaux on the south-west coast of France. Mrs. Greeley cannot walk a step being a fearful sufferer from rheumatism, but her hives are better. The girls are both with her and well. I may try to find you next sunday.
OUR BRILLIANT SUCCESS WITH THE SUPERIOR INTELLECTUAL CLASSES--WHISKEY AT WASHINGTON--COGNIZANCE OF DOMESTIC SECRETS--DISCOMFITURE OF ANDERSON, "THE WIZARD OF THE NORTH"--REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE WITH A VERY NOTORIOUS PERSON.
Our rooms were frequented by much of the best society in New York; and it was common to see the street encumbered with long files of carriages. Particularly the intellectual and literary classes were familiar visitors, both at our circles and in our private life. Many of them became our most intimate friends. Hundreds of promiscuous visitors were deeply interested, and were, in reality, Spiritualists at heart who had not the courage to face the social and business disadvantages attaching to the public avowal of such a novel and unpopular doctrine, which the clergy, as a rule, denounced. Several of the most highly respected Senators in Congress having become open and warm Spiritualists--among whom Gov. N. P. Tallmadge was the most openly zealous--probably nearly all of that body passed through the experience of our rooms; for I frequently received telegrams from Washington for private engagements for a party of a dozen or more. It was remarkable how the superior classes of actors _took to Spiritualism_, and I have been greatly interested in them from my earliest acquaintance with them. My tenderest sympathies have been awakened when sitting in circles with many of them, who have been raised in my estimation far above the level of those who fancy themselves to be their superiors.