To our correspondents.

On returning [from the Spiritist Journey], we found such a volume of correspondence that an entire month would be needed to answer it, while doing nothing else. Considering that daily a new contingent arrives, without prejudice to the current and strictly obligatory occupations, one will understand the material impossibility in which we find ourselves to face such a labor. We have said, and we still repeat it: we are far from lamenting the number of letters that are written to us, for they prove the immense extension that the doctrine is taking and the moral and philosophical point of view under which it is regarded, wherever it penetrates. They are precious archives for Spiritism; nevertheless, once more we are forced to ask indulgence for the unpunctuality in answering. This labor alone would absorb the time of two persons and we are but one. From this it results that many things remain in suspense, which is the reason for the delay in the publication of several works that we had announced. We hope that a day will come when we will have a permanent and assiduous collaboration, in order that everything may proceed satisfactorily; the Spirits promise it to us. While we wait, there is no alternative: it is necessary to neglect either the correspondence, or the other works, which increase as the doctrine grows.