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EXPERIMENTS

REFERENCE

By

James

CONTENTS

OF

Hyslop,

H.

of

Discussion

FOR

MARK

TWAIN.

PIlD.

the

Introductory

Examination

of

Fragmentary
Influence

Records

the

of

Nature
of

17

the

27

Messages

Subconscious

the

33

Messages

Involuntary

40

Conclusion

40

Detailed

Record

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(March

Hutchings-Hays
Chenoweth

(May

weth

(May

(May

31),

30),

(June

(June

5),

Gune

6).

130;

Chenoweth

19),

14),

27),

25),

Chenoweth

180;

(July

(July
24),

5),

3),

(July
27),

(July

MISCELLANEOUS

(July

216;

25),

INCIDENTS

W.

by

F.

by

2),

weth
Cheno-

188:

(July

(July
28),

26),

213;

219.

OR
Kezia

Mrs.

158;

(July

4),

EXPERIENCED

REPORTED

AND
Edited

(July

21),
Chenoweth

Chenoweth

200;

Chenoweth

208;

Chenoweth

(June

169;

(July
23),

weth
Cheno-

139;

(June
26),

Chenoweth

184;

13),

Chenoweth

177;

E.

LECTED
COL-

Alexander.

Prince.

Introduction
I.

226

Letters

Describing
Instances,

II.

Short

Essay

by

Peculiar

Psychical

States,

with

tive
Illustra-

Etc
Mrs.

227

Alexander

on

Symbolism

in

Dreams.

233
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III.

Results

of

Incidents

by
V.

Her

Among
IV.

92;

11),

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146;

(June
28),

(June

Gune

Chenoweth

Chenoweth

2),
weth
Cheno-

103;

Hutchings-Hays

114;

(June
18),

154;

Chenoweth

195;

Chenoweth

203;

Chenoweth

164;

20),

(June

Chenoweth

124;

(June

Chenoweth

6),

59;

4),

(June

Chenoweth

135;

12),

(June

172;

7),

29),

52;

Cheno-

Hutchings-Hays

71;

Chenoweth

85;

(June

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141;

(June

(June

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(June

Chenoweth

150;

Chenoweth

1),

98;

Chenoweth

109;

(June

(June

(June
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Chenoweth

119;

31),

(May

28),

(May

(May

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57;

Chenoweth

79;

Chenoweth

49;

Chenoweth

66;

Hutchings-Hays

1917),

8,

29),

Solely

Her

Final

Canvass

by

Mrs.

Alexander

for

Incidents

Acquaintances
of

Mrs.

239
Alexander's

Experience

or

Shared
251

Word

284

EXPERIENCES

CENTERING

Reported

E.

Oscar

by

THE

IN

Young

YOUNG

FAMILY.

Edited

Others.

and

W.

by

F.

Prince.

Introduction

287

Incidents

29A
I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VIL

The

White

The

Riddle

Kitten

of

Rap

and

X.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

308

Experience

Turkey

Moving

the

312

Wing

316

Prediction

Mediumistic

Veridical

319

Communication

Mysterious

Seeming
IX.

Room

(Extra-Corpus?)

Mediumistic

True

The

VIII.

Lighted

the

Clairvoyant

Seemingly
The

294

320

Hand

Visual

Coincidental

323

Clairaudience

Reciprocal

Hallucination

Connected

Experiences

326

328

with

Authorship

333

Apparitional

Appearances

338

Coincidental

Experience

343

Collective

Visual

Quasi-

Partially

Coincident

Seemingly

Phenomenon

345

Dream

348

Supernormal

Experiences

During

Final

Illness

EXPERIENCES

351

IN

Edited

Wood.

by

J.

Introduction

Mrs.

Summary

HOUSE.

H.

and

Mrs.

by

Told

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F.

Elizabeth

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Prince.

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Wood's

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Hutchings.

3/8/17

EXPERIMENTS
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notes

prefixed
which

Mrs.

Dr.

Hyslop

except

letter

or

double

letter

of

IV,

by

are

by

WITH

are

those

C,

J. H.

H.

F,

Prince,

Mrs.

CHENOWETH

MRS.

such

of

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and

notes

the

alphabet

to

notes

in

enclosed

as

are

parentheses,

editor.

present

Hays.

additions

28,

May

1917.

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work

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that

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you

shall

dear

bring

child
us

near

together

and
as

54

Proceedings

The
write

will

and

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here

this

lady

occasions

relationship

in

think

not

is

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father

it is the

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[Proceedings.

case

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father

the

was

home,

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3.

was

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25

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Experiments

Reference

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56

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for

57

room.]

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Alarmed,

and

heard

then
The

of

said,

relief
the

was

that

very

five

miles

"

was

Occurred

five

about

There

significance.

is

did.

make

the

so

severe

about

or

strong

smell

calm,

was

tar

of

the

of

if

up
smell

to

of

was

permanent.
this
; no

; the

night

she

pitch,

time
person

in

without
visible

if

pine

was

up

four

feet

perfectly

applied

to

ural
nat-

early, in

and

sugar

water.

constriction

abatement.
; no

great

hastened
or

painful

on

seemed
with

as

tone,

this

flat

down

awoke

with
The

painful

pressure

three

druggist,
taken

lay

and

person

recover

During

fire, she

on

pleasant

The

which

her

not

all.

She

was

and

even

Tar,

on

One

house
as

in

bleaching

caused

they

weeks

burning

water."

and

lasted

sat

the

speak

that

pressure.

only.

thinking
voice

by

for

Could

fumes.

two

person

time

brimstone

burning

inhaled

Oil

had
to

and

immediate

was

fire

it is im-

since

upon,

any

either

Was

obtained

was

Take

"

sent

lungs

no

etc.

once

time

"

commenting

were

short

voice

morning,

The

but

the

at

question.)

that

days,

down,

turning.

the

voice

who

possessed

they

several

relief

; it

life,

traceable.

worth

not

evidence

relief

There

away.

to

accidentally

floor, face

pain.

father's

Jan. 23, 1888.)

most

bring

her

connection

whether

effects

^^spiration

^o

times

occurred

has

Incident.

and
the

^ne

voices

Heard

response

are

absence

(Reported

^^nie

tell

Complex

^i"cm

her

No

in

and

to

entire

"

The

"

Cases

hearing
in

noticed.

has

Hodgson.)

Dr.

by

she

indefinite."

time

ago

many

1888.)
as

usual.

(Feb. 1, 1888,
years

23,

Jan.

as

has

that

This

name.

Voice.

recognized

"

she

that

HcUlucinatory
(Reported

that

remember

not

question

her

speak

nothing

with

to

response

voice

is connected

but

1, 1888,

Yes

Heard

23, 1888.)

Jan.

quite

occurs

24,1

Incidents.

Miscellaneous

light

There
of

lamp

or

otherwise.

(Feb.
years

1, 1888,

ago."

in

response

to

question.)

"That

occurred

22

If

were

we

delirium

the

at

certain

that

"

Not

make

fectual,
ef-

remedy

the

ourselves

tar-

hallucinatory

the

in

not

of

efficacy

Scotch

the

with

proven."

(Reported
sent

was

before

she

went

and

the

when

their
the

the

calico

very

before,

into
the

seen

wandering
the

secluded

place

that

the

The

father

thought

child
I

worthy

help
which

that

to

have

the

The
a

got

did

found,
was

be

having

only

parents

intelligent

very

and

having

girl

had

into

but

it being

and
them

to

of

thing

truthful

some

house,

the

such

never

of

probability

have

never

mother,

belonged

remarkable

and

eight months

died

permit

not

woman

my

themselves

to

the

hearing

little

the

alone

was

was

she

say

and

there

how

That

"

The

proximity

never

told.

tain
enter-

the

kind

experiences.
person,

so

place.

being
dress

suspicion
may

close

and

After

about

asked

mischief,

on

This

know

it

whom

to

house

had

neighborhood.
to.

have

ever

family

and

and

Rememl^ering
insisted

the

the

wore.

mother

child's

The

been

said

said,

repeated

She

had

about

she

The

all."

to

probability.

the

neighbor

bent

tramps

that

the

and

region

her

girl,

referred

person,

tell

clothes

house

mother

to

the

dress

that

lady

and

previous

and

moved

little

child

the

looked,

questioning
her

asked

who

child

The

shelf.

truthfulness

general

the

heard,

woman

admitted.

been

window

the
saw

came.

one

asked

and

she

high

no

child's

the

be

not

on

having

neighbor

could

and

chair

for

vouch
their

child

and

without

There

She

old.

years

Passing

in.

things

door

11

was

errand.

an

looked

over

the

returned

saw

time,

the

on

at

father

they

why

knocked

girl

little

on

she

door

looking

and

and

house

chair

knock

mother

the

reached
on

on

neighbor's

The

23, 1888.)

Jan.

to

standing

may

did
content

to

the

itself

announce

have

not

of

were

Apparition,

4.

at

not

were

neighborhood

the

recollection

if it

since,

memory

by

obscured

not

were

in

fire

real

auto-suggestion

might

we

of

aberrations

from

did

facts

original

subliminal

that

or

verdict

fumes

burns

sentence,

the

the

or

that

for

water

time

the

smelled,

not

that

sure

Research,

Society for Psychical

American

of

Proceedings

242

that

have

had

seen

some

told

hanging
the

that
from

little

glass

nail

was

distorts
and

was

girl, looking

which

object

when

pieced

small

mother,

my

through

what
out

boy

is

the

seen

its

I oncc

cann"^

windov^'

through

outlines

J^'

fro^

her

doubtful
it has

5.

value

owing

to

to

for

care

days

my

friend

to be

mind

for

sent

(Mrs.

therefore

of

in

which

she

had

to

heard

her

her
of

it.
in

sister, but

Mary
the

Alice's

she

until
bered
remem-

expecting

was

of

case

day

friend

my

incidents

then

girl ;

to

ously
danger-

sister

the

her

go

said

had

time,

connect

about

and

was

Mary

exact

just

for

leave

to

to

me

work

Alice

that

know

strangely

another

by

and

thought

enquired

had

for

sent

Alice

her

rest.

at

was

lady

to

Pontiac.

in

donU

lady

Mary

bowels,

thought

and

well,

soon

said

for,

had

and

me

saw

the

that

"

Neither

it very

the

and

by

Lawrence

Mary

lives

who

sent

Sunday

this

friend

6f

was

her.

Last

had

My

ago.

remember,

voice call

she

her,

she

not

and
is

form

modified

Coincidence,

1888.)

inflammation

before

could

child

incident

and

process

with

sister, Alice,

her

ill of
so

1,

with

day

few

the

to

the

The

points.

Voice,

Feb.

(Reported

up

of

have

may

us.

Hallucinatory

spend the

questioning

examination

weak

disclosed

come

unskilful

Expert

description.

might have,

or

that

and

imagination,

24.3

Incidents.

Miscellaneous

Julia

Pattison's

A.

corroboration,

Mrs.

by

sent

Alexander,

Feb. 8, 1888.)
At

friend's

my

That she

told

me

hired girl, said


n^me;

Alice was
*s

there

had

and

caring

for

Mary
her

write

Sunday

heard
she

day,

next

will

last

ago

she

sick

very
now

week

that

the

that

suggestion

voice,

thinks,

Mary

her

her

save

task.

Lawrence,

sister

her

Alice

speak

her

came

and

said

mother
take

the

of

care

her.

Mary

sister.

and

recovers

that

and

go

E.

[Personally

Alice

to

Mary's

must

K.

When

this

Ai^EXANDER

signed]

for

Lawrence

Mary

A.

Julia

Pattison.

returns

will

get

her

account.

Dr.

Fuller's

(Mrs.

that

not

returned.

be

account

an

will

1888,

gotten

write

to

Co.,

Oakland

Pontiac,

March,

Alexander,

request
yet

is

address

in

from
her

Mich.
to

response

the
and

Lawrence
if

see

Dr.

Hodgson's

girl.)
can

get

it in

way."

(Account

personally

written

and

signed

by

Miss

"

Lawrence.)

Has
that

244

S.

25, 1888.

Mar.

Birmingham^
Mrs.

Research.

Society for Psychical

of American

Proceedings

Alexander,

Birmingham.
Friend

Your
As

They

near

it

she

would

better

that

being

anxious

heard

the

leave

have

to

voice

with

me

And

can

for

as

it^

This

incident

The

twice.

"

L.

Alice

(Alice

about

a.

would

The

if

"

vicinity
;

is

not

or

as

have

then

was

Mary's

not

came

and

said

that

with

of

she

heard.

it

persons

aught
also

prominence

cxrcurred.

(rf)

to

We

hallucinatory

was

as

the
are

is

experience.

the

in the

person

stance
circum-

Alice's

alleged Mary

may

producers

of the

of

name

ailed I

name

is uncertainty's

possible

in

ends.

ander
Alex-

Mrs.

resembled

Here

that

which

letter

unstated

voice

Alice's.

was

ill

first thought it

at

important
whose

sister

For

(c)

an

At

was

after

her

Mary

Mattie

is

Alice

(a)

heard

(6)

it was

appear).

L.'s

uncertain,

Mary

voice

definite."

anything
and

that

Miss

one

fast.
break-

at

thought

Saturday,

place.

say

person

other

sole

not

was

until

her

(whether

thought

given

her

hand

speaking

indefiniteness.

have

does

first, then

at

then

were

was

take

what

worked

Mattie

mother

second

Mattie

afterward

what

say

1888,

in
heard

who

is indefinite

absent

whether

and

voice,

this

"

thought

Lawrence

Mattie

I could

say

an

another),

well

not

Lawrence.

Early

Mary

she

stay

too,
at

Mattie

was

could

was

necessary,

account,

does

Mar)'

and

voice

reports

it

L.*s

go

Pa's

for

whom

sister

Miss

m.

6 :30,

for

thought

was

would,

As

more.

summarized:

be

about

at

family

Miss

she

thus

may

morning,

Sunday

"

for Alice

nothing

May

Mary

no

definite.

anything

and

was

as

side.

was

if Alice

voice,

Pa's

the

daylight.

her, but
say

to

went

she

and

with

stay

her,

said

Saturday,

and

go

twice.

call

until

stay
and

mother

another

["

just getting

was

it, that

near

and

go
to

was

or

it

Alice.

was

six.

after

Mattie

was

ber.
remem-

can

half

about

it

it

thought

all I

reply,

was

thought

anything

see

nine,

about

was

that

not

it

time,

and

first, then

at

could

and

think
also

243]

p.

the

remember

will

and

hand,

at

breakfast,

eating

sister"?
window

as

were

17

March

of

letter

Alice

dark

as

It may

because
to

of

whether

be that she

246

Proceedings

"

expensive

against

as

that

number

of

symbol,

have

The

3.

used

the

dream

was

5.

witnessed

7.

no

be

"

the

that

garded
re-

dence
coinci-

mere

he

that

sense

4.

appointment.
than

of

interpretation

dream,

by

the

in

ver)'

may

succeeding

the

fulfilled

himself

to

of

case

got

one

the

of his

each

to

probably

dream

underlay

his

surface

signed

the

subject.)

confidence.

Dream,
written

and

by

Oak,

Royal

6, 1888.

March

Mich.,

Alexander,
Sir

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In

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Incidents,

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E.

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4, 1888.)

hates

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wish,

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on

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where

the

Mrs.

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Starr.

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record

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hardly

of

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248

Proceedings

the
of

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husband

that

him

Dying,

1887.)

(I^fayette

people about
who

Man

my

meanwhile

dying

at

it

but

midnight

I awoke

him

speak

28,

about

me.

man

of

Dec.

night

I told

This

facts.

possibility,

Vision

(Reported

around

future

or

for

intelligences

extraneous

it.

Veridical

by

255

Incidents,

of

sense

them.

see

they

had

all

were

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ceased.
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presence

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in

lived

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by

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go

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; we

whether

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awake

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light

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eyes

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in

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open

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.felt

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appearance
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therefore

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him,

But

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these
as

how
some-

was

appears.

256

Therefore,

2.

of

dream
his

and

the

dying

actual

death

ill

whether

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place

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Phillips*

death

she

selecting

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verify,
have
he

the

and

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of

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See

upon.

him

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that

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to

appears

testified if

have

A.'s

Mrs.

any

before

and

could

would

of

statement

corroboration

Mr.

it took

vision

A.'s

letter

or

absence

the

her

to

that

the

Mrs.

for

also

item

husband

her

request

no

death

early

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upon

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statement

told

she

view

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depends

newspaper

date,

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that

reply

the

could

lowing
fol-

the

in

of

nature

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case,

Premonition

experience,

the

insufficiently

were

eyes

only

interest

as

An

evidentiality.

supported.

Father's

Death

28, 1887.)

Relation

of

its

not

her

of

is

this,

attest

not

believed

A.

Mrs.

though

that,

husband

interesting

5.

of

it is probable

fact

her

affecting

was

ill, and

his

Phillips

knew

it

any

that

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this is

of

value

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of

same

stating

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or

night,

particular

very

vision

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open,

the

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weakens

confirming

of

is

of

that

he

of

incidents

called

case.

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fact

that

death
"

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sent,

been

had

the

expectation

heard

was

hour.

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husl"and

the

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knew

midnight

from

letter

of

date

particular

was

the

witness

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(fe)

middle

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this

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knowledge),
from

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not

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at

feature

the

in

Phillips

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(how

evidential

sole

of

however,

weakened,
was

the

Research,

Society for Psychical

of American

Proceedings

VisucU

by

Auditory

and

Experience,
(Reported

Dec.

Sometime

in

to

ill.

fully

father

my
I

did

he

not

said.

husband's
made

would

in

and

of

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at

the

foot

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passed

immediate

head

told

my

preparations

to

me

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go

time

to

times.

and

mind

side

grave;

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he

was

arise, being

stood

by persons

felt

weak

very

and

went

or

about

to

home

to

arose

dead

was

my

either

on

so

digging

man

side

one

father
for

the

dirt, three

instantly

away

supported

drooped

him

saw

frozen

bed

my

about

mother

My

dangerously

became

recovering;

was

morning

in

sick.

if he

lived in

who

Dyer,

taken

was

word

me

he

Philip

place,

health,

pick
of

; his

and

send

good

know

bed

this

that

the

father,

my

Friday

On

rest.

awake

the

from

again

wrote
at

heard

miles
she

that

me

She

happily

1876,

Co.,- 50

Livingston
wrote

Feb.,

2.

my

to

die.

my

He

father's

I reached

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house.

night preceding

the

that

my

father

had

Kezia

E.

died

day
Thurs-

on

him.

from

visit

my

certify

hereby

I found

there

257

Incidents,

Miscellaneous

herein

statements

Alexander.

made

by

wife

my

are

true.
strictly

S.

(Replies
1.

Yes,

2.

Yes.

queries

to

Dr.

by

9, 1888.)

Jan.

Hodgson,

Al^EXANDER.

awake.

fully
It

daylight

was

and

about

everything

saw

me

naturallv.
3.

There is always
I

higher

I have

4.

Paralysis

5.

I have

in the
case,

familyon

6.

^hem

Yes.
and

wnder
you

see

his
to

Mr.

Journal.

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and

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Service,

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them,
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referring

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you

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periences
ex-

We

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read

to

matters.

subject

asked

are

No.

of

article

an

that

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of

Cambridge

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State

W.

Mr.

experiences

with

Mr.

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keeps
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rain

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der,
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writes

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refer

Meteorological

1885,

M.

will

us

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say

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American

which

Prof.

following.

the

of

entitled

by

for

of

Journal,

Michigan,"

of

read

to

if so,

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Director

Editor

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know

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Station
classes

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referred

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family

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you

upon

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I will

hundred

the

death.

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and

and

Southeastern

University,in May

for

as

March

the

husband,
of

were

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the

it involves

accounts

Arbor,
of

more;

floor.

the

than

find

not

many

Harrington,

Ann

little

or

ages;
person-

people.

That

W.

(One

Journal.)
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if

M.

of

the

name.

at

my

wrote

about.

things

to

foot

higher

do

after

are,

Friends

arid

it, although
side

or

tioned,
men-

persons

extraordinary

say

feet

mother,

my

know

we

own

letters

to

mother's

Quaker

these

natural,

several

the

relations

natural

in

written

wish

which

from the

for

himself

my

and

room

age.

some

if you

return,

old

looked

his manifesting
and

seen

find

than

up

them

and

but

all

bed,

the

the

peculiarity attending

this

them

see

times

some

of

foot

the

at

in

distinctly objects

saw

viewed
re-

Cambridge
a

U.

ological
MeteorS.

hail,

nal
Sigtem-

258

and

pests

cold

is all

experiences
He

something

that

hopes

and

write

Aside

record,
1.

her

be

to

from

the

and

the

refer

to

3.

him.

made

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and

A.

declares
her

truth

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issue

an

On

But

the

old

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The

death

in

time
We

ought

Note.

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The

A.'s

given

testimony
of

medium
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maternal

is

of

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were

miles
pression
im-

the

her

which

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5.

the

night

certificate

ceding
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the

to

hardly

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memory

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her

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day

the
"

on

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correspondence

the

given

of

should

an

by

out

be

father

the

But

was.

question.*

seeing

sought
it

old
the

experiences,
to

truth

how

asked

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12

not

closer.

told

one

recent

letter

been

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recovering

or

within

death

experience
nor

guessing
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age!'

old

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and

of, say,
well

and

paralysis

older

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much

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of

hundreds

the

text.

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strength

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50

house,

during

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place

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die

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experience,

own

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7.

proved

to

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in

man

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dream.

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in

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death

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and

referred

the

could

pick

father

4.

by
being

grave

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her

father's

also

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only

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supposed

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her

high quality.

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vision

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old

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wish.

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contemporaneous

husband.

actually

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live

one

even

die.

hand

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be

was

case.

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ordinarily

father

story.

men

The

A., but

reposed

wife's

this

2.

her

go

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waking

in

which

is of

and

unmistakably

witAess

vision.

his

to

went,

her

and

the

told

her

time

that

while

once

upon

this

by

at

she

that

so,

if

no

father

hallucination

reported

for

wrought
husband

knew

death,

A.

is

ground,
her

recovery.

words

Mrs.

my

claims.

such

any

too,

you

there

firm

on

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to

but

of

knows

instance

one

to

that

stands

preparation

away,

write

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misfortune

way

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society

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he

certainty,

of

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still claims

but

accompanying

of

for

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nothing

utterance

result.

he

Mrs.

the

may

of,

and

incident

on

good

work

the

dream.

considered

dug,

to

myself

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not

as

for

this

with

himself

quite extraordinary
I

pleased

knows

he

them

has

never

is

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waves.

Research.

Society for Psychical

American

of

Proceedings

her

apparition

investigations,

preserved,

and

in

the

as

neither

being

finds

it is based

frank,

no

upon

unassuming

daughter.
Mrs.

A.'s

statement

experiences.

that

her

family

on

the

Miscellaneous

6.

Occult

still in

but

bed

Southeast
On

his

of

would

it

abruptly
Some

it is

No,
I

is

one

would

had

tHDrs,

had

had

on

farm

quickly

^ri^ws

from

name."

outside
the

and

postoffice

were

we

do
of

passing

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^^

^parition
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letter

Enclosed
^^s

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of

is

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than

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she
I

the

the
in

(Enclosure

the

must

28,

in

since

She
her

AI.EXANDER.

Mother.

never

had

her

saw

November,
the
in

and

tell

not
to

certain

version

she

same

that

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^inc

in

one

his

*s^you,
then.

to

he

and

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?oth

hear

took

him

but

could

and

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am

as

quick
the

same

as

and

he

would

get

not

hand

afraid

of

scared

me

drink

hands

he

and

hand

but

gave

know

the

shook

and

Dyer.

by

me
room

my

also,

from

Dyer,"

'rtported

her

said

1876.

23,

it

melted
the

living
*

around

he

his

he

away

but

to

mouth.

not

my

the

heard
At

grabbed

shook
try

in

have

awful.

me

thought,

as

to

is

of

hold

help

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hand

and

case

cannot

be

cross-examined

with

the

was

said,
not

it

my

with

glass

and

his

in

"

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afraid

dead.
Hf

but

speak
thought

water

spoke
I

hand

my

glass

him

first

i^

Anna

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of

friends

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glad

^^^Hce,

letter

more

to.)
April

"

this

after

could

so

told

death,

business.

on

him.

to

come

telegraph

1888.)

mother.
year,

letter.

soon

referred

Jan.

my

same

with

talked
she

said

from

letter

Alexander's

Mrs.

by

seen

Alexander,

died
told

has

have

^^sband

Mrs.

by

She

written.

Dyer,

live

We

get

people

news.

up.

not

KEZIA

neigh-

near

the

turned
re-

killed.

was

us

or

and

out

our

tell

to

when

us

accidental

the

by

late

too

tell

to

but

said,

I said,

Garfield

Saturday

on

returned

from

except

O.

me

condition

my
went

President

to

husband.

my

and

gone.

was

husband

My

saying
P.

asked

on

man
states-

spoke

now

an

nose

first

our

in disturbed

coming

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procession

vision

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us

denoting

that

husband
The

speed.

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funeral

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of

your

town,

miles

of

the

great

with

was

from

with

suddenly
me

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coming

came

to

up.

it any

horse

military

stopped

get

the

to

in

die.

to

the

waiting

2J4

to

2nd,* 1881,

and

ground

view

dressed,

been

been

was

but

was

heard

not

who

"i"ian

dim

Is

received

have

"

statesman,

Die.

to

beautiful

announcfed

time

was

die."

to

before

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that
it

saying

July

horse

die.

was

sunrise,

dressed

messenger

surely

who

asked

The

the

and

3.

the

rider

rank.

Relation

saw

touch

not

bore

he

high

breast,

my

did

back

officer

fully awake,

he

about

morning

Sunday

Was

Garfield

1887.)

28,

Dec.

(Reported
On

That

Announcement

259

Incidents.

almost

certainly

Dyer.
is

honestly

260

of

Proceedings

(Answer
Not

1.

Mr.

when

think

in

produced

and
not

was

I have

tried

to

was

the

his

mind.

reference
in

these

answer

the

of

before

in

questions

Mr.

by

to

vision

we

said

that

die.

wife

my

had

met

"

asked,
This

of

one

house

was

the
The

in

told

and

been

to

my

arisen

just

and

full.

1888.

Jan. 23,

there

of

who

which

sad

and
and

(Mi

first
had

my

to

came

bart-ms

my

back

I
said

I
I

news.

killed-

been

She

heard.

abourmt

was

the

us.

Sli-^i

way

had

wa.

news.

to

heard

Garfield

that

th"i

This

men

went

if I had

me

the

house

news

what

learn

house

Garfield's

int^o

went

that

tlB-^it

vision.

her

is

intellectual
no

asked

the

wife

gave

ability and

the

you.

m\Jitary

I will

you,

manner,

to

or

the

excited

them

wrote
to

to

President

very

whom

replied

who
no

she

of

day

in

me,

letter

recent

the

left

from

He

my

fulfillment
person

ordinary

have

first coming
had

Mich.,

statesmen

thereafter

?"

form

as

great

our

news

the

ourselves

one

neighbors

my

to

from

distance

What

was

the

related

immediately

of

one

though

Alexander.)

wife's

my

following

any

considerable

some

in

substantially
seen

some

morning

early

Relation

to

assassination,
facts

news,

Esq.

Hodgson,

say,

of

He

Birmingham,

In

passing

could

impression

circumstance.

(Corroboration

R.

the

than

news.

distinctly

very

the

more

received

tell the

to

neighbor.

nearest

dressed.

entirely

yet

him

he

and

that

remembers

telling

my

intent

from

least,

at

him

the

was

that

saw

likely

quite

husband

My

3.

it

part

and

special

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know

not

out

had

foot.

on

does

went

have

2.

room

he

he

might

9, 1888.)

horseback,

says

Research,

Society for Psychical

Jan.

queries

on

Alex,

along
he

to

American

the

us

is

news

sympathy,

between

man

he

being

whom

ai

of

person

ve

culture.
Res.

S. Alexander.

Was

1.

definite
Garfield

time,

lead

to
was

but

znsion,

the

he

not

was

to

the

only
also

unfortunately

conclusion

that

of

leading

one

the

President,

"

our

interrupted,
Garfield
statesmen,
first

sufficiently

as

statesman,"

(c^)

meant

Tvas

such,

of the

{b)

tb^

262

let

will.

connected

smith's.

movement

only

sufficient

to

precision.

had

been

familiar

occurrence.

or

more

long

as

its

to

that

as

in

incident

suggestibility

at

psycho-neural
this

be

long

so

has

depicted
confidence

give
deftly

9.

labeled

Impulsion
(Reported
I

of

the

Some

of

you

praising

God

he

to

came

"

have
and

the

word

in

of

extreme

her

or

weary

singing

dear
*

did

"

^at least

the

experience,
She

truthfully.
such

fidelity as

which

types

the

have

not

this

with

so

not

are

to

psychologists.

5.

by

conducted

years

some

The

progress.

little

but

Hallelujah

"

for

way

Shouts.

Mich.,

with

lost

of

Relation

was

sentences

words,

with

A.

aspects
type

by

place

Co.,

pulpit oratory
of

into

meeting

grove

this

before

unstable

understand

to

shelved

9, 1888.)

Jan.

It

Ai^exander.

was

Mrs.

descriptions

in

Join

Oakland

repetitions
with

put

to

attended

Auburn,

near

"

and

that

us

her

and

her

in

something

illustration

reason

phenomenal

the

docketed

to

enable

to

related

she

as

it

down

explanation.

diflference

knowledge

technical

other

some

force

came

same

E.

K.

an

as

and

up

here.

Alexander

Mrs.

for

obvious

no

simply

when

was

the

makes

interest

time

state

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hand

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the

to

sainted

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voice-

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to

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erstwhile

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are

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force

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case

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same

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man

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the

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Jan. 23, 1888.)

out

control.

same

monotonous

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looking

Ghost.
note

phenomena,

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beginning

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"

in

doubtless,

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perhaps

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intellectual

least

people

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of

men

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are

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intonation

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if they

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they

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voice.

wonderful

tongue

my

aspiration

now

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on

felt

repetition.

next

lacked

with

man

263

Incidents.

the

that
at

bare
if he

time.

time,

the

His

hair

showed

just

then
his

hands

but

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not

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on

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room

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tle
lit-

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field
said
an

on

words
instant

264

Proceedings

The

of

out

the

all

figure,

this

The

audience

was

one

and

myself

transpired
the

those

of

manner

Prof.

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on

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man

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confirmed.
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its verification

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it

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hill,

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neck,

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his

my

head.

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to

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dream

and

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exciting

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anyone

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to

occurs

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said

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but

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relate

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hearing
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remember

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me

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confirmed.

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ander
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might

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remember

occasions
took

audience
those

among

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also

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phrenologists,

literally, and
dream,

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that

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noon,

lecture

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examine

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in exact

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American

of

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and

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assured

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really occurred,
hypothesis,

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would

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validity

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in

witnesses

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opposed

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thus

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A.

that

of

divergence

to

divergence

namely,

details

the

fails

dream

the

between

divergence

woefully

265

Incidents.

Miscellaneous

Experience,

Premonitory

Feb.

(Reported

About

feeling

by
the

at

dear

friend

said

in

startling

miles

small

force

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time
few

this

State)

her

seized

with

it

all

did

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came

but

with

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to

make

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the

dead

bilious
who

enough
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Sturges.

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of

colic.

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held

his

justice

almost

to

to

married

my

for

Kate,

so

say

lounge

other

of

tests

suddenly.
28th

of

Feby.,

when

she

husband.

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had

died

quite

denly
sud-

to

his

business

until

her

friend.
and

the

arrange

in

business

again

business

the

on

received

was

little while."

back

don't

and

this

but

said

property

vision

my

live

had

she
his

Have

fell

so

again

property
the

of

not

healthy

(St. Johns,

town

of

say,

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believe

tried

the

"

"

said,

tears

her

friend

body

attend

to

do

made

my

friend

morning.

conversation

thought
to

the

was

vigorous

very

her

with

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arrangements
I

time."

every

in

will

in

and

was

husband

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sitting

comes

man

certain

impulse

your

the

down

in

voice
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came

arise

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me.

children.

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for

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experiences

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see

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say

you

to

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statement.
to

friend

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and

time

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that

accomplished."

the

the

at

effect

husband.

table

confirm

to

depressing

no

the

to

her

be

the

well.

this

emphatically.

she

where

after

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if

was

came

an

to

said

husband

and

from

occurred

intended

favor.

attended

and

will

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manner

as

lose

had

I
was

impression

vivid

health.

soon

raised

had

impression

"

noise,

days

husband

in her

her

The
would

object

and

in good

was

away

positive

very

experience

man.

1864,

January,

Co., Mich.

Oakland

Birmingham,

after.

or

waking
this

of

voice,

time
10

time

same

middle

the

accompanied

16, 1888.)

said

trust

the

at

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is

time

Mrs.

himself
and

then

name

now

he

at

the
was

last.
not

afterward
Mrs.

was

Julia

A.

he

Julia

Pattison.

266

of American

Proceedings

It is
f erred
is

in

able

are

brc^e

sprain

of

Dr.

Fuller

best

she

Pontiac

fall

her

attending
her

put
the

paralysis

from

will
this

to

name

above

of

to

the

her

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left

wrist,

face

an

to

what

other

sa

statements

is

she

ag

years

confirm
and

room,

three

of

Mrs.

v(Hce.

broke

and

parts

some

side

whom

to

darkened

received

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the

read

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with

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hearing
in

dislocated

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confirming
have

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from

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knowledge.

wrist

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suffers

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condition.

her

as

right

ankle.

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She

she

and

her

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last

week

of

this.

writing

am

write.

to

left

paper

bad,

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which

of

last

the

hardlv

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where

house

her

at

Research.

Society for Psychical

said

ha\r

to

friend.

my

E.

K.

Alexander.
A.

Jui^iA

Pattison.

Sturges

A.

of Facts.

Brief
1.

Date.

About

2.

Health

and

3.

Impression.

lose

her

5.

Telekinesis.
force

with

and

State

7.

Prophetic

of

live

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the

first

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and

(formerly

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small

object

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within

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accomplished.'

from

the

the

time.

and

table

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noise.
of

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Sturges

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Mr.

favor,

wife's

to

at

about

was

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Mrs.
at

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visited

Sturges

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that

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make

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propert"^

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to

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Sturges),

immediate

of

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A.'s

Mrs.

the

about

suddenly

suffered

widow

correctness

her

died

occurred.

Corroboration.

9.

Sturges

to

sa/^

husband

wiV

weeks

after

while."

incident

above

attended

sequel.

properly

token

his

business

little

8.

A.

Julia

said,

impulsion.

in

this

but

Mrs.

voice

hearing

later, and

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Awake.

health

6.

arrangements
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January,

spirits good.

"

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days

of

middle

husban4.

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down

failed

ill and

she

statements,

knowledge.

attend

to

the

from

account

six

affixed
so

the

ness
busi-

omission.
read

was

to

far

her
as

to

Mrs.

tison
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signature
the

facts

in

had

Miscellaneous

B.

Brief

of Discussion.

Assuming

that

of

one

unusual

when

well
about

heard

there

was

was

table,

grounds

it fell

remains

still
death

the

that

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it.

12.

so

(e)

S.'s

Mr.

though

shrewder,

Felt

Seen,

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Wright
I

first

knew

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phia

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will

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at

of

tell

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of

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de-

was

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socialist.

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him

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all

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with

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when

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in the
the
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did

to

in

honorable

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same.

and

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and

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he

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of

member

became

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state.

was

and

Co., Mich.,

Clinton

Johns,

Wright,

of

to

Mich.

acquaintance

my

Benjamin

the

prediction

Co.,

Oakland

Birmingham,

at

1865.

he

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Mrs.

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1870.

family.

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16, 1888.)

experience
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that
that

say

unwarranted

Birmingham,

^pril

to

liars.

were

Apparitions,

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and

regrettable

startling

Mrs.

to

incredible

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death,

the

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corroborated

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it is

when

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arrangements.

are

While

if

said

not

follow

business

reported,

rather

justified

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the

on

statement

fulfilment

its

"

cause.

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death

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at

inferred

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was

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weeks

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herself,
it

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and

and

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some

to

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deferring

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have

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was

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have

floor)

to

prediction

elapsed

uttered,
of

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the

may

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both

Mr.

Pattison

and

the

later,

the

years

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is

there

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on

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Mrs.

prophecy,
healthy

regarding

its

or

of

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as

apprehension

impression

weeks

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Mrs.

table

corresponds

fact

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feature

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the

six

Sturges

24

the

upon

for

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fact

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gift

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cause

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that

and

seen

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discard

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is

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on

voice

confer

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is

it

remembered,

correctly

was

(a)

the

known

Sturges

that

so

she

Mr.

incident

strength,

illness

that

this

267

Incidents.

writings
Alphadel-

Wisconsin

daughter,
not

marry

268

until

42

in

Wright
return

In

to

1869,

Nov.

old

and

died

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went

had

(she
her

been

but

looked

not

behind

put

if
Mr.

both

out

they

for

the

and

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as

away

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away.

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daughter,

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talking

to.

dress
said

it

talk

out

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to

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in
wore

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asked

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saw.

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right
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ask

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creature

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wife

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and

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each

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far

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and

although

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of

me.

to

to

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first

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everything."

loveliest

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noticed

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tight

more

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and

awakened

was

matter

so

many

too,"

Why,

soon

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see

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hands

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kissed

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"

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"

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the

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it seemed

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make

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three

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course,

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and

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are

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Incidents,

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it

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feeling.

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The

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find

to

in

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of

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by

account

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of

Proceedings

voice

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night.

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he

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and

day

what

to

had

he

279

Incidents,

her

sentence

should

grieve

occasion.

places

in

the

280

Telepathic

18.

1863

About
"

say

Ma."

the

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of

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in

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8, 1888.

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my

girl
home

of

butterfly

frighten

it away

with

impression

the
that

mother
not

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white

to

could

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down

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of

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Birmingham,
Mr.

it

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laid

gauge

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voice

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signs

question

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will

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coincidence

actually

spoke,

and

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word

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detected

foolishness

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fell

she

thought

and

shows

It

whose

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(e)

said

expressed.

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person

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save

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me

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points.

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at

and

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coincidence
the

her

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my

daughter

my

and

steps

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hurt

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account

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or

church

in

ended.

stairs

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on

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last

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my

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anyone

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lit

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pleurisy.

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school

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me

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it

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of

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re-

week

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die.

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and

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school

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such

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impression

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illustrate

to

future
it

death,

if the

symbol

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inches,

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we

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on

or

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dream,

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in

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too

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take

of

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relates,

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night.

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as

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something

remembered

large

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that

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morning

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well

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Alexander.

next

her

was

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was

told
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parcel,

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immediately
tell

for

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the

when

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to

the

it and

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too

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of

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death

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whose

friend's

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truly,

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way.

and

form

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over

in

inside

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of

turned

was

the

see

same

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paper

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her

with

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me

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quite

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related

daughter

morning

the

and

me.

my

white

anything

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occurred,

knew

always

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between

26th,

the

butterfly.

whether

more

of

night
the.

saw

me

know

not

the

on

time

the

mother

My

died

and

days

two

281

Incidents.

symbol

how

and

of

mortality.
im-

connected

symbols

first

are

initiated.

E.

Kezia

1.

elaborate

pretty

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of

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on

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been

upon

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of
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of

night
4.

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mind

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death

of

days
as

2.

of

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girl's

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Alexander
earlier

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shown

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at

which

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by

the

of

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the

mony,
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night,

and

to

3.

school-acquaintance.

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the

butterfly

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laid,

was

establishment

by

coflSn.

her

foundation

Alexander.

knew

her
have

think

The
was

ance
acquainthad
of

her
any-

282

that

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the

under

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of

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6.

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her.

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the

school
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condition

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authoritative

testimony

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of

bearing
how

perhaps,

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or

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opinion

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of

was

it without

being

asked.

of

coincidence.

edges

of

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the

symbol

significance

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of

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by

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come

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upon

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Alexander

derivation
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and

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Mrs.

whittle

left

she
news

by

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girl died,

reason

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mentioned

possible

no

is

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and

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course,

there

8.

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any

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between

absence

about

particulars
Of

The

time.

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con-

parties.

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whether

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at

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death,

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how

was

meantime,

the

just when

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ence
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friend

the

time,

in

of

both

informed

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after

emotional

of

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coinci-

the

appearances,

statement

in

have

however,

its

and

have

not

hinted

plainly

from

fresh

and

would

days

ness
sick-

the

to

impaired,

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regard

have

to

appear

this

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person,

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in

death

the

which,

the

prognosis

about

come

death

does

have

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recent

girls

two

and

have

should,

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had

somewhat

dream

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were

she

if

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any

A.

special emotion

any

even

Mrs.

to

Miss

stated,

it would

the

school.

though

but

though

between

As
of

spell

girl,

destroyed,

left

5.

ill."

was

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Society far Psychical

American

of

Proceedings

^^

be

adopted.

Mrs.

20.

Alexander

taneoiisly

Her

Sister

Oct.

2nd,

Sit^^'

is Cured.
1888.

Hodgson,

Mr.

Sir

Dear
In
About
he

of Ague,

Symptoms

Has

1853
that

and

found

time

Mr.
of

number

the

surprise

father

my

for

alleged
we

had

family

and

announced

Greeley
friends

had

phenomena
faith

in

N.

with

Reading

Greeley's

Co.,

Livingston
the

in

experimented
true.

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in

lived

word.

this

Y.

Mich.
that

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us

gave

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points:

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coloring

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of

Proceedings

286

there

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by

such

it

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set

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communication

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in

passage

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July

interested
have

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mind

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Society,
lines

and

myself

in
for

of

upwards

twenty

genuineness

of

spiritistic

solution.

the

places

in

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Adams

of

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phenomena,

1918

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convinced

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the

accept

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more

with

period

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derived

both,

the

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excellent

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whom

have

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Katie

the

of

impressions

my

in

days

several

children,

husband,
of

several

spent

acquaintance

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faith

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again

grown

narratives.
and

renewed

the

and

the

and

sense

offered.

mathematical

homestead,

Young,

Y.

the

My

summer

old

pleasant
Mrs.

of

many

occasion

as

years,

Research.

Society for Psychical

demonstration.

positive

In

American

of

Proceedings

288

good

correspondence,

were

deepened.
Professor

Charles

incidents,

the

F.
well

knew
and

school,

distaste,

dated

of

to

years

he

was

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material

it

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family,

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she

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long,

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in

and

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for

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many

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it

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tendency

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to

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or

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home,

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in-

was

them

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tendency,

spiritualist

being
say

people

she

the

Alice

letter

to

1917:

in

tell

in

others

which

them

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to

trend

and

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testifies

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certain

of

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of

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should

letters

away

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you.

mentioned

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superstition,

of

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her

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him,

of

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have

to

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were

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some

came.

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never

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or

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experimenting

finally to

and

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rather

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or

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but

paratory
pre-

of

cost

from

letter

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as

Jersey,

ceased.

discarnate,

more

New

York,

gradually

matters

at

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magnetism,

animal

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from

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the

is

integrity

given

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appear

[formerly]

us

and
went

testimony

in

1, 1909.

May

Both

His

of

several

men

young

since.

reports

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as

were

we

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corroborator

when

by
His

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personal

Rowland,

spent
she

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have

saw

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in
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heard,
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and
it

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comfort.

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all
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and

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to

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to

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home,

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by

father

safe.

was

heard

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every

the

to

him

went

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that

and

time

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at

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he

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off

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instances

so

and

certainly coming

and

he

superstitious

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town

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was

him

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impressions

if

that

because

called

in

people

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this

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for

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saw

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and

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very

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it.

old

not

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what

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than

to

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tried

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and

and
the

should

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very

voices

Mother

he

always

saw

day

hear

to

in

Centering

Tracy.

time
lots

290

American

Proceedings

of

letter

me,

In

to

Society for Psychical

dated

7, 1918,

March

Research.

Mr.

himself

Young

says:

There

as

seems,

the

through

whole

immediate

our

(my

the

brother.

oldest

Franklin)

heard

never

his

Coming

down

sanctified

got

or

Frank

and

children

cropping

weakness

(or

turned

has

ualists.
Spirit-

but

Parker,
think

but

also

in

the

she

Gilman,

out

was

by

and

Augustus,

son,

he

Parker;

dead

about

sure

one

all

Frank

father,

are

whom

judge

Elenora

and

quite

Malorum,

Tracy's

Joshua

girls

times.
had

remember

William,

more

Gilman

Alice

but

the

same

just

dead.

him,

any

of

that

he

or

but

Spiritualism,

had

I judge

he

his

cranks

What

in

simply

was

Chandler
at

the
and

turned

but

"

and

inclined

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as

cousins

before

and

named.

received

possibly

know,

you

Joseph,

always
far

as

the

condition

proved

have

Father

experiences

receptive

children

about

also

(father),

twenty.

unusual

when

afterwards,

lifelong Methodist,

sons.

died

no

nothing

shortly

Spiritualists except

with

contact

no

had

campmeeting

I know

but

heard

death.

his

who

have

Methodist

trance,

Levi,

three

namesake,

at

Universalist

before

had

is,

Uncle

so.

way

my

of

sort

grandfather,

my

saying

became

Grandfather

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the

into

remained

always

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as

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particulars.

had

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second^

not

am

family

to

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fell

and

young

to

brothers,
one

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definitely

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three

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of

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Uncle

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the

failed.

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by

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judge.

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is

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his

Elenora;

and

Fred.

third,

William

mediumistic

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and

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far

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it consisted

family,

knew.

be

to

say,

family.

grandfather)

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you

nothing.
better

than

myself.
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his

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latter

few

quite

have

told

now,

though
I

per

slept

I do

though

death,

am

judge

Addie,

me.

few

judge

agreement

together,

from

is

think,

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renewed
before

mostly

why

wondering

his

altered
I talked

ago

years

he

regard

that

know

not

years.

still

when

years,

in

bitterly skeptical

was

bade

she
I get
we

him

was

no

went

spirit

opinion
him

with

Katie

what

strong

to

believer

much

before

those

on

and
in

his

antagonistic.

message

from

goodbye

bed

on

forever

Uncle
the

last

early

his

lines

for

daughter

spirit

strongly

to

until

return

return

Bray,
night
the

as

we

next

Experiences

morning.

He

by
of

ten

in

the

in

man

devil

think

told

and

make

him

would

not

I'll write

all

if

damned

certain
write

I'll get
in

that

middle

the

of

the

know

why

the
I

strangers.

were

nights

in

cession
suc-

considerable

had

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in

ing
meet-

audience

know

several

he

to

me

speech

not

the

not

they

sleep.

to

oped
devel-

did

but

did

tried

which

go

want

you

in

up

for
to

he

remember,

influences

him

making

said

as

fully

big Spiritualist

he

291

not

his

He

platform,

verse,

poetry

at

remember,

the

to

permit

the

troubled

never

him

how

you

As

though

about

you

control?
couldn't

Family,

Young

rostrum

he

echo.

called

the

under

said,

the

to

charge

to

"

he

the

tell

ever

from

night,

one

him

cheered

minutes

fifteen

in

mediumistically,

Did

means.

Boston

what

powerful

was

any

or

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the

tude,
apti-

he

said

daytime,

but

night

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to

aloud,
I'll be

it," and

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way

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Hyslop,
follow

ask

for

any,

the

also
will

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indeed

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in

periods

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direct

Mr.

by

introduction

Young

the

to

Dr.

to

incidents

twenty-five

if
is

the

Most

quality.

that
that

or

are

determine.

There

have

larger

which

to

is

outside

me

of

being

while

convincing,

telling

in

the

believe,
rather

ordinary

last

the
festation,
mani-

of

I have

planation
ex-

not.

are

than

scope

corroborated,

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prosaic

very
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1913.

and

of

many

into

family

others,

the

been

clock

the

capable

that

capable

in

it ; many

on

1890
the

around

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crowded

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viz.:

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part

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talk

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the

could

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years.

"

it

experiences

parents'

my

fail,

not

must

far

by

inexplicable

things

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future

included

did

further

any

tho

past,

that

memory

sent

as

letter

You

the

serve

may

from

paragraph

already

you.
I

about

marriage,

to

opponent

mediumistic,
Mother

and
to

The

Katie

1890.

in

b^^an

ardent

an

Katie

great

supporter
been

always

has

went

d^ree

following

to

later,

year

in

Spiritualispi
These

(for me).

experiences

unusual
death

investigating

began

thus

of

me

letter, relating

more

congenial
the

Father's

wife,

of

year

or

endowment

so

later,

my

bitter

strongly

still, consequently

good

to

having

time

from

My

return.

after
the

about
Mother

turning

spirit

began

soon

just

control

bitterer

for

and

culminated

under

for

away

left

go

1882

when
the

fluence
in-

surroundings.

and

experi-

292

Proceedings

ences

of

the

interest.

writer

So

iniages

in

worthy

of

his

the

as

unusual

apply

the

are

those

whom

did

not

might

sleep

she

at

did

the
I

rest.

very

you

St., Winance
reappearI

health,

poor

another

cousin

my

room

much

by

except

increasing

the

night

the

first

slept

there

on

in

spent

was

after

during

room

and

she

was

have

little

the

it used

have

This

time

in

which

which

to

watchfulness

for

first

to

like

not

of

slept

and

attached.

myself

but

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; most

was

years

occupy

one

made

floor.

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she

^and

"

much.

either

in

like

would

instance

the

to

have

upstairs

rooms

I told

there.

me

right, but

All

consideration

under

the

of

to

"

answered,

should

Katie

but

chose,

she

I should

her

me

thought

sleep

there.

if mother

wonder

not

told

came

you."
I

said

bed.

As

when

in

mother

come

in

the

full
she

believed

the

last

also

that

asking

and

light.

told
mother

me

many

had

in

Katie
if

she

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"

or

at

or

"

told

are

all

at

least

that

in

one

coming

"

way

she

me

bed

other
or

to

all

instances

another.

or

saw

time
some-

did.

recall, but

now

then

upstairs
she

lie in

to

several

go

believed

mother

going

told

to

elsewhere.

or

"

and

went

either

her,

morning,

least
of

me

were

manifested,

the

and

sort

time

occupied

she

room

hours

by

subsequent

any

inquiring

morning

early

morning
has

of

out

that

undisturbed

was

at

room

after

Katie

remember

morning

her

of

something

or

fact

of

matter

slept

would

she

hoped

Nevertheless,

she

most

that

apparent

is in

instances

many

greatly

was

the

to

She

us.

laid

that

should
no

sleep
return

Katie

the

1917.

31,

suggest
21

Adams,

recall

was

necessity

the

know,

mother

of

some

May

Would

regard

such

many

instance

so

she

To

tell

she

it advisable
as

are

respond.

would

occupied

much

and

far

Young

of

Maine,

Y.

in

left

she

mother
she

; so

weakness

that

she

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that

to

Mr.

has

psychologically

received.
B.

experience

her

after

just

was

since

heard

attached

in

her

think

have

stairs

characteristics

sister, Katie

my

for

my

house

up

one

to

forgotten.

the

of

belongs,

persistence

Chesterville,

inquiry

mother

but

now

to

of

Maine,

believe

exploits

he

directly

of

which

to

and

Research.

remark.

letter

throp,

family

vividness

memory

Walter
Your

the

visualizing

South
Dear

Society for Psychical

of

and

far

the

concerned,

American

of

call

day,
I

her
this

know
when

Indeed,

294

Proceedings

"

first

My

fifteen
for

feet

picture

neck,

long

cheekbones

and

manifestly
brim,

did

the

to

that

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did

not

him,

but

as

him
is the

what

or

"

am

at

the

hair

and

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wide

by

flat,

of

about

fellow

young

when

whimsical
around

appear

winked

deliberately

and

short.

to

row
nar-

though

cut

forty-

were,

smiled

he

slowly

with

matter

with

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wrinkles

expression.

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very

had

particularly intelligent

looked,

very

perhaps

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other
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concealed

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say

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eral
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have

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limbs

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the

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Society for Psychical

"

vision

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buggy

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Young.

INCIDENTS.
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I.

Thk

An

from

extract

dated

7, 1915,

May
kitten's

the

recent

remarks

Now

through
glimpses
mother

the

to

letter

in

from
to

answer

appearance

sister, Katie

my
an

inquiry

noted

in

caused

Young

B.

the

by

Adams,
allusion

previous

letter.

not

long,

to

thetical
Paren-

mine.

of

story

quite
of

are

little

the
of

period

it resembled

discover

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first

flashing

in

dove,

but

its

kitten

white

years.

white

something

thought

times

at

Kitten."

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used

comer

later

or

catch

to

under

it became
into

evolved

which

form,

we

is

but

runs

fleeting
table

and'

plain enough
a

white

snowy

kitten.
When
to

attach

able

to

we

any

first

began

especial

recall, but

very

to

it with

connect

importance
shortly

before

to

its

any

coming

periodic

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event,

visits, I do

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it

ran

or

not

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feel

through

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door

front

the

"

one

sitting-room

the

She

called

find

it

not

search

failed

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white
cat

under

run

The

distinctly, sitting
Mother
kitten."
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reappeared

to

her.

When

The
kitten

lying

white
but

when

flash
no

white

of
in

day

white

both

its

mouth.
"

at

the

into

all

the

on

trace.

no

to

eyes

him

see

that

at

few

of

bed.

my

I did

and

days

turb
dis-

not

gone.

Mother

died.

it

hand

had

so,

and

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identity.

of

said

quilt

the

the

lot

he, and

was

touched
its

if

asked

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light

reveal

to

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footboard

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dim

look

comer.

copy,

was

have

been

I did

it

may

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explains
on

the

lap

not

touch

laid

and

and

eyes

Chkstervii.w,

I knew

the

pointed

to

could
ing
mean-

in

heart

my

the

death.)

down.

[sic]

still, with

her

opened

mother's

I felt

him.

perfectly

sat

thewhite

it

my

before

week

in

alone

mother

sitting by

was

my

me.

kitten."

winter

it

means

or

was

anyone

very

not

may

farther

be.

from

and

me

less

tinct.
dis-

from

or

near.

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comes

not.

itself.

chance

it may

was

making
be

of

typescript

interest

to

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South

of

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the

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sleeping
was

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"

plainly,

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pat
was

and

believe

above
a

to

into

it this

saw

it goes,

send

in

mother

see

Superstition

and

flash

find

my

said,

was

Timothy.

was

not

him

once

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The

sitting

(our

knee

visitation

whither

raised

noon
after-

one

caught

could

but

so

kitten

jumped

Katie,

When

not

the

"

All

O,

but

back

over

could

feel

and

of

distinctly

see

disappeared

it

afterward

two

or

kitten

see

it

she

thought

my

sitting

was

room.

(This

room.

by

the

cat

stooped

could

systematic

bed.

once

and

but

quilt

and

at

and

mother,

William

her

on

him,

on

its tail

came

that

hunted,

time

that

at

I found

to

night

just

died

speak

went

to

place

same

all

and

up

occasionally,

Bray

but

hassock.

flirt of

Uncle

the

my

in

With

before
I

on

sewing

I got

in

came

through

out,

kitten,

the

died,

just in time

bed.
was

white

under

ran

Cyrus

Uncle

eyes

my

295

looking

was

pretty

it

window,

my

day

next

the

declared

before

raised

and

she

as

Family.

Young

it.

bedroom

my

after

she

reveal

month

by

look

to

to

the

disappeared.

and
me

in

mother

past

"

^although

"

Centering

Me.,

May

12, 1915.

for

you.

E.

Young.

filing

296

Proceedings

of

American

Society for Psychical

Chestervillh:,

South
Prof.

James

H.

New
Sir

Dear

favor

of

the

saw

as

little

experiences
sister

of

real

the

I
As

give

close

very

with

Uncle

years

mother's

cousin

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winter

as

and
as

mongrel

as

the

with

self.
my-

date.
I

do

years

mother's

not

can

better,

by

cated.
indi-

brother,
in

ago

June;

only brother,
"

Uncle
cousin

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died

at

Winthrop,

Me.,
week

out
with-

and

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only

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vanish

seemingly

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almost

answer,

can

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at

the

and

width,

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related)

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is

appearance,

eleven

ceived
re-

when

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feet

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have

to

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as

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or

fellow.

day

in

Katie

second

no

ever

one

claims

in

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cat

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of

sized

medium
"

known

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father's

recollection

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a

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know

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have

persons

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died

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(tho

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time

some

March

11,

before.

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my

and
in

the

1913;
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come.

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at

ten

black

died

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cousin

times

never

1912.

of

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him

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were

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and

father's

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inch

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from

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kitten's

various

my

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leap eight

the

Maine,

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huge

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of

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of

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in

to

dates

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ago

them

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prefix
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now.

the

half

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errors

the

extract

actually

him

tempting
at-

numerous

to

impossibility.

questipns

death

"

there

saw

approximation
the

think.

near

refer

to

not

your

Joseph

East

at

eleven

and

door

for

writing

comparison

six

of

crack

tho

and

was

Katie
I

another,

was

wife

an

but

physical

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,for approximate
a

died

was

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well, and

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him

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cat

to

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least

correct

punctuatim

you

did

never

with

ago

from

to

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et

nobody

present,

years

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astounding

through

at

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you

than

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entitled

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sent

personally

if

scarcely

literatim

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cat.

scratch

presence

me

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the

to

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allow

am

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account

know

that

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account

verbatim

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too

the

duly

fallen.

considered,

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far

have

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questions,

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be

letters,
about

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to

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my

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to

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are

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of

you

children
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to

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1915.

24,

May

Your

into

Me.,

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with
sister

is

him

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joke

throat,

breast

to

have

is concerned,

not

very

intended)

white

never

distinct.
gray

cat

or

one

white.
that

many

remember

tiger,

under-body

and

him

saw

could

shaggy
I

have

readily

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mistaken

be

it than
in

for
other.

any

normal

light

her

be

dim.
and

out

worn

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must

was

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description

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doubt

in

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by

and

from

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appear-

sister

my

third

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any

noteworthy

end,

to

nearer

condition.

nervous

297

mistake

its last

near

have

must

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slight.

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chance

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course

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ask

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Aunt

mother,

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to

let

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attend

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effort

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appear-

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to

favorable

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regard

death.

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and

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me.

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at

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and

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thing
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sometimes

to

frequently

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variety,

periences
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that
at

,and

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it would

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months
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circumstances

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in

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298

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it be

can
"

We

Don't

tell

do with
date

it."

rivers

^^

I've

it, and

enough

frequently

been

cousin.

This,

"been
and

only,

whose

year

said,

and

anything

has

of

memorandum

with

dyed

in

add

the

that

to

the

im-

always

vision

of

leaving
with

conjunction

me

blood,
ated
nause-

kitten

the

to

her
in

did

She

is the

apprised

by

deaths

were

result

on

the

death

wife.

his
of

hemorrhage

at

note

to

the

death

of

this

forenoon,

than

which

Mrs.

of

morning
at

the

her

and

writing

Am

Katie:

Miss

Villa

to

about

house,

her

the

hope

you

silence

reported

firstunder

experience

referred,

30,

Horace

The

funeral
come.

It

was

1917.

know

can

which

Tobin.

Horace

Aug.

five.

Adams.

Yoting's

very

has

cousin

you

B.

contrary.

Adams

dated

let

the

but

about

rather

Maine,

Katie

respond,

not

sincerely,

(Mrs.)

get

to

something

say

Fayette,

suddenly

of

news

written

made

were

it occurred,

that

received

note

the

other

two

attempts

Here

Saturday

and

imexpected.

pressure

Dear

by

its color,

1917,

31st,

Aug.

enclosing

statement.

written

kitten

troubled

occurred

too,

of

am

altogether

vtnplies

very

had

that
a

the

seen

much

very

everything

morning

Several

^Uch

During

instance

within

think

made

Very

^nd

seen

startling.

be

sarcastically

to

he

request

my

if

ran

had

niece.

same

family

just
I

to

breath,

occasions.

the

Will

'^st"

at

have

faint.

other
On

time

after

of

and

^Hro

foolish

are

However,

that

inediately
"

your

He

chair."

last

somewhat

laughed

asked

the

her

and

circumstance.

and
Since

"

me

He

of

in the

death

he

him

I told

for

!"

wonder

brother

kitten

the

denly
sud-

flushing

occurrence

with

home

and

caught

the

frequent

my

when

look

behind

was

exclamation.

was

she

white

your

too

went

with

may

she

however,

niece

way)

startled

as

305

My

the

by

little

excited,

see

of

September.

disappeared

later

lately ",

with

Family.

Young

daughters,

you

was

conversation

"

added,

did

it

days

seeing things

of

moment,

and

did, but

few

15th

much

After

feet

your

the

Oscar's

was

Kittie,

Aunt

in

conversation

paling alternately.
"

the

to

of

(one

me

stopped
Looking

Centering

passed
is

With

away

o'clock

ten

love.

Mabel.

306

Proceedings

had

Horace

The

of

Winthrop,

Mrs.

but

does

afterwards,

long

her

is

spell-bound
The

with

last

Adams

but

from

time.
?"

now

and

in

any

reason

and

dreams

much
been

by

troubled

is

has

case

rivers

as

and

die

soon.

long

this

to

in

blood,

and

fur

of

everywhere."

to

of

out

cranny,
the

find

premises

difficult, here
I

looks

The

emotions,
at

and

subsequent

only

knowledge

my

there

one

was

cat-proof
a

Young

balk

her

her

at

flesh, IxHies
of

some

familiar

were

with
them

examining
but

egress,

existence

the

the

existence

and

of

place

Adams.

may

the
who

C.

to

of

assume

imagine

that

that

there

of

it is

one,

not

theless,
never-

appeared

wonder,

of
came

of

disappeared,
on

this

would

Bonnybelle,

the

psychiatrist,

to

the

excitement,

connection

some

was

mysteriously

mysteriously

moments

but

it.

image

memory

regret

to

likely

standard

the

relation

sure,

Those

find

do

to

its
be

to

be

to

to

kitten
that

Kitten

To

crept.

office,

in

dematerialization

them

than

white

To

she

propose

more

the
White

this

"

credible

unable

in

and

itself

which

were

the

more

prepared

afterwards

It

it

Who

were,

knowing

her

some
"

manner.

importance.
also

for

death,

instances

Mrs.

it everywhere,

of

herself

the

died

lungs.

violently

before

possibility

the

^blood

"

of

control

three

Bonnybelle

involving

and

"

its

have

apotheosis,

seems

Horace

pools

trembled

was

in

that

of

^blood

"

regained

there

was

of

history
may

blood

seeing

cousin

her

of

odor

occurred

death

"

she

as

before

G.

family

until

them;

to

conscious

fully

hemorrhage

severe

nauseated

just how

This

for

The

letter

visions,

or

importance

while

time

short

horrible

of

who

tell

neither

painful,

sight

words

Meaning

time.

short

has

much

first

cannot

she

very

steams

very

Her

the

trickling
was

in

thus,

horror.

described

She

her

her

attach

to

not

most

of

speak

when

occurred

suddenly

very

often

not

occasions

appearance

corroborates

5, 1918.

seeming

several

on

Adams

Mrs.

Jan.

Adams

Research,

Society for Psychical

hemorrhage.

bad

very

husband

from

American

of

surface

of

settle

the

casions.
oc-

ter.
mat-

of

center

ill-health

the

and

number

and

tween
be-

two

objectified
or

nervous

Experiences

strain.
besides
two

the

Also,
Mrs.

Adams

together,

is

the

by

in

doctor

would

good

thought
explained

both

the

coincidences.

they

2. Uncle

Here

yet

they

do

is the

table

Very
Tobin,

to

March

6. 2nd

Same
Villa

March

and

stricken

Dec.

about

nor

away

plain
ex-

appeared.

before.

month

before.

before.

days

night.

About

week

previous.

Edward

Cousin

Young,

do

not

M.

11, 1913.

3rd

other,
an-

about

4, 1913.

Young),

H.

Tobin,

(Mrs.

to

person

Kitten

few

5. Mother

even

lated
(re-

parents),

Wm.

and

winter

1912.

4. Cousin

others

June,

Young

Bray
both

that

beast,
one

shortly

About

3. "Uncle"

307

ably
prob-

1909.

of

from

White

Young,

Cyrus

fact

elusive

the

saw

1904.

in

the

say,

died,

Joseph

Family.

Young

hallucination.

assiunptions,

Relative

the

suggestion

by

of

contagion

Granted

1. Uncle

Centering

1915;

12,

Dec.

the

About

18, 1914.

illness

time

when

the

began,

Dec.,

1914.

fatal

7. Cousin

Tobin,

Horace

Beginning

Aug.

30, 1917.

Even

if

fact

the
a

not

it is possible
with

the

the absence

the

the

data

to

what

Bonnybelle
would

that

as

support
seems

the
the
very

whose

affect

is

of
of

nerves

explain.

compiler

Young
would
recurrent

the

an

subjects
which

ance
acquaint-

would

possesses

portance,
im-

primary

condition
And

or

reveal

supposition.
likely,
related

puzzle

that

to

disappearance
the

the

pathological

not

causally

was

question

or

Young

WHY

between

mind

any

it would

such

family

hallucination

kitten

neither

of

Granting

imagine,

granting,

And
of

to

of

before.

shortly

particular

which

events

condition

hallucination.

the

before,

year

related

this

coincidence

external

the

of

mad,

is the

It

the

and

and
of the

or

poignant.

before

just

members,

temporarily

went

hallucination

that

been

member,

familyalways
as

had

until

recurrent

Tobin died

be just

about

of

the
was

the

the

particular

memory
unaccounted

coincidences.

form

image

of

for,
The

308

Proceedings

fact

ver}'

that

image

breaks

in

at

this

logic

of

the

Society for Psychical

kitten

seenied

the

believed

s\-mbol

be

to

but

point,

she

W'e

family,

less
un-

make

might

snicker

from

us

fair

be

must

the

design.

by

"

translated

really was)

deter

not

"

of

employed

it shall

situation.

members

that

Research.

Enoch,

like

be,

to

that

appear

mother,

fit

American

not

the

possibly

the

this

it does

(^though

her

of

adhering
the

to

even

to

istic
spirit-

h)-pothesis.
Remember
some

it at

other.

\'illa

her

with

period

the

these

in

when

table,

called

was

of

numbered

to

had

attention

character

What

Seen.

1.

Mrs.

2.

{a^

Mrs.

Adams.

(^)

Mrs.

Adams

Young.

the

ap'

to

respond
cor-

times,

other

White

the

Kitten

Ran

under

bed.

Ran

under

another

Did.

bed.

Mrs.

and

Young.
(^Several

attention

premonitory

it is

instances,

two

in

and

Kitten,

above.

that

Whom

B\

in

it before

seeming
arrange

may

we

with

White

and

time,

same

of

sight

the

to

pearances.

the

the

saw

persons

Banning

directed

been

saw

caught

one

the

by

three

two

cases

alleged,
it

that

hassock.

Sat

on

Sat

on

footboard

not

plainly.)
3.

Mrs.

Adams.

4.

Mrs.

Young

Mrs.

Adams

5.

and

saw

felt

Played

6.

Mrs.

7.

(a)

into

Not

Adams.

when

Mrs.

The

II.
1.

farm

which

the
in
my

of

O,

by

Statement
In

Ran

Adams.

Riddle

Fayette,
owii

Maine,

family

in

playing

guests

piai

near

present.

were

out

beside

Mrs.

A.'s

feet.

Youftg.

eighties,

early

am

Room.

Lighted

the

E.

lap

and

Young

\'illa

Miss

(^)

A.'s

stated.

Persisted

Adams.

Mrs.

down.

sat

Mrs.

bedquilt.

on

Jumped

it.

saw

bed.

it.

independently

Young

Miss

Adams.

Mrs.

and

of

are

niv

C.

father,

which

living

he
at

had
the

\V.
then

present

Young,
recently
time.

was

living

bought
Beside

and

him,

on

310

there

but

outside

show

there

was

Research.

Society for Psychical

only light enough

was

to

American

of

Proceedings

filtering

no

in

Everything

there.

one

from

curtains

the

through

exactly

seemed

usual.

as

have

explanation

no

Spiritualists,

were

markable

several

sister's

regard

where

she

usually

reflection

in

evening

The

slept.

question
she

that

presume

light
of

windows

the

as

but

that,

to

the

on

only

of

this

of

my

floor

second

explained
the

one

as

remember

not

the

on

be

one

I do

^^

more

positively

as

was

cannot

been

select

speak

cannot

mentioned

people

have

but

since,
I

the

There

time.

house

witnesses,

living

whereabouts

the

of

None

that

at

in

occurrences

having

in

least

at

offer.

to

as

front

chance

were

rooms

illuminated.

E.

O.

Corroboration

2.

270
This

certifies

II, and
is

July

River,

Mass.,

E.

Young's

O.

Mr.

read

the

remember

in

accurate

have

Howland.

St., Fall

Rock

that

F.

C.

by Prof.

Young.

statement

The

perfectly.

circumstance

3, 1909.
bered
num-

statement

particular.

every

Signed,
F.

Charlks

Corroboration

3.

The

little

is

above

Howland

Villa

by Mrs.
in

true

myself

and

child,

at

the

time

Young.
My

particular.

every

being

M.

the

only

Rowland.

son

living witnesses,
and

slept soundly

as

daughter,

my

nothing

knew

Mr.

^the writer"

"

of

the

citement
ex-

occasioned.

Signed,
Mrs.

Further

Statement

by Mr.
South

Dr.

F.

Walter

Sir

Dear

house,

of

lighting

up

seen

Young,
Chesterville,

July 26, 1918.

Maine,

City.

letter

Your

Young.

M.

Prince,

York

New

Villa

by

my

inquiring,

recent

date,

of

windows

the

friend,

C.

F.

in

the

Howland

in

the

spare

and

room

of

myself,

plained
unex-

the

of

case

my

fathers

if my

H^

Experiences

sister

might

hand.
I

have

not

it and

hurried

(Whew

! what

consider

Centering

been

in

back

upstairs

room

!)

infinitely

311

and

lamp,

sentence

so

PamUy.

Young

with

her

involved

an

the

there

to

possibility

that

in

have

uished
extingis

undetected,

Possibly

remote

possible,

but

entirely

be

to

as

at

negligible.
The

room

conceive

of

night

after

eight,

she

no

lighted

when

delay

or

warning

of

moon

The

within
she

four

feet

of

-"Joscd
detected
^he

by

floors

crossed

^rk

This

Would

her

forgot

had

one

her hand,

can

for

coolness

and

we

so

was

no

trusted

"

risen

newly

not

dows
win-

the

on

the

the
be

would

is

to

state

that

in

there

she

extinguished,

if

door

lamp

must

and

have
fled

was

the

stairs

the

few

we

open

from
the

kept
carried

upstairs

in

the

with

it

evitably
in-

have

done

it in

must

have

seen

the

stand

spare

and

the

have

in

at

railroad

the
her
I

yard.

wide

open.

If

room.

brought

tirely
en-

actual

our

must

did

it in

creaked

across

was

anywhere
door

All

itself

dark,

We

could

she

being

myself.

steps

approach

and

without

usually
the

we

opened

and

in

done

our

was

that

swear

friend

inconceivable.

door,

to

no

of

even

chamber

my

be

this

passed

which

by

have

all

"

upstairs,

kitchen,

hall

then

taking

utterly

if the

willing

to

notice

face

to

and

were

first

and

by

or

the

lying,

were

room

spare

foot

of

upstairs

have

we

the

the

passed

father

and

length

gone

have

two

them.

separate

must

twenty-two

feet

bare,

me

face

from

the

stairway,

inches

sister

my

back
of

only

eight

mother

ten

or

the

to

her

parents

my

Again

opened
almost

memory

over

the

and

while

to

unheard.
she

gone

this

All

met

and

were

Moreover,

^trance.

length

of

unnecessary,
y^rd.

there

so

though

our

south,

my

house,

light

the

door

either

not

get

eight

some

Considerably.

To

it.

chamber

the

the

where

again,

entering,

and

with

room

walked

door

same

^crc

the

have

must

^he

and

be

parallel

ran

room

spare

of

door

open

of

and

others,

no

north

runs

open

end

right angles

at

the

to

get

was

the

on

entered

we

being

door

but

windows

south

unfastened,

If

at

about

young,

farther

yard,

was

coming.

our

The

road

This

door.

late

days.

the

The

was

can

illuminated.

were

hall

doors

into

east.

the

"

shining

was

that

To

can

those

there

been

she

and

entered,

have
As

expected.

turned

the

should

earlier.
in

not

we

the

it

sister

much

were

to

certain

am

from

straight

went

retired

often

not

was

my

slept soundly

and

was

one

spare

why

having
always

entrance

reason

friend

My
were

being

it

she
in

out

speed

"

312

Proceedings

without

all
the

such

is

inconceivable
feat

without

opening

or

road,

After

thing

sly,

wishes

to

do

to

heard

was

even

that

either

by

least

of

Research.

four

closing

right

people

I had

never

furtive
could

the

on

and

did

and

known

have

such

from

t'^Bie

her.

known

her.

ai^^^y-

If

trick

"of

character

never

about

play

perfoi

in

coming

behind

deceptive

or

could

years

were

doors

two

child.

eight

we

more

she

do

while

rests

secretive,

so.

of

conviction
as

believe

child

any

detection,

at

all, my

sister,

my

Society for Psychical

It is unbelievable.

spot.
It

that

sound

American

of

anybo-^Jy

he

is

E.

Young.

welco^mie

not.

Sincerely,
O.

ChestervillE,

S.
In

last,

my

certain

by

seen

give

to

the

that

house,

the

could

be

not

several

at

Statement

1.

While
I

think

usual

teaching
in

the

fire;

as

the

burned

boxes.

ahnost

over

fully
and

of

doing

in

began

plaster wall,

and

^p^*

u^^n-

most

wo^-^'"

judgment

own

^^

that:^

impossibility

head,
of

the
as

peculiar

under

the

box

up

kept

of

wall
in

by

fist.

the

an

start

to

and

store

^o"

success

^^
^

hazily thou^^ht

covers

the

awake
made

sound

on

broad

sleeping
of

half-doze,

my

thump

blow

between

arri^i^^

last

; at

conscious

dimly

boarded

me

time

midway

in

heavy

made

long

breaking

I
a

for

be

to

which,

where

Suddenly

conscious

My

Mai

Portland,

singular

apparent

While

kitchen,

the

i)eople

my

the

asleep

so.

sounds

cracking

somebody

for

fall

to

it seemed,

as

had

called.

be

save

3,

and

of

harbor

else.

point

very

sharp,

was

such,

unable

been

waking,
of

it

1882

it could

dream

anything

be

I had
at

if

pronounce

could

of

in the

Island,

Long

at

Young.

Young.

winter

the

dream,

not

".

O.

by

norr'^nal

Experien^^^-

(Extra-Corpus?)

Clairvoyant

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b^cr}th

time.

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seen,

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why

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and

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many

with

do

to

1918.

July 29,

quite important

one

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around

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way,

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room.

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ed
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you

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investigator,

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the

to

admit

and

shoulders

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head

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their

to

as

forms

of

inclined

was

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side,

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saw

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skeptical

carefully.

myself

indeed

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and

but

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was

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go

them

by

and

slowly

bed

by

thought

simply

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of

taken

the

that

Spiritualists

many

of

not

were

down

Well,

313

whom

irresistible.

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of

genuineness

you

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way;

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understood

manifestation.

alleged
rtial

it be

claims

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do

and

any

unexpressed

my

me,

in

experience

to-day.

not

am

resist

not

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new

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straightened

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to

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time,

to-day

my

clothes.

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er

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cloth.

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to

seated

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session.

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view

noticed

I seemed
was

in

at

no

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among

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papers

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not

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faces

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not

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details;

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I

of

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paint,

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me

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the

of

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to

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platform

in

number

than

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school

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support

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color

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it

number

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all at

other

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consequently
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the

shorter

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the

on

seemed

marked

the

school-room.

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",

windows,

were

the

20

doubt
visible

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I noticed

fact

nearly

seats

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odd

in any

without

space,

apparently

was

occupy.

things,

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31

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in

actually

me

air, I had

in the

supported

what
and

noticed

again.
covered
and

with
several

314

Proceedings

of

books

with

manila

well
I

brown
but

lighted,

did

the

Directly

of

blue

hairs

in

resembled

third

book.

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in

at

part

full-bearded

my

yellowish

hardwood

the

of

end
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thing

midway

about
formed

by

shape

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of

feet,

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but

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out

came

writing.

minutely.
to

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see

on

letter

plain

sight.
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-it

comer

of

was

by

former

my

before,

sat

us

hidden

entirely

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young

after

trying
in

teaching

then

quite

of

foot
I

one

of

foot-board.
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and

room

old-fashioned,

an

had

wall

roof.

the

end

over

the

that

if under

as

farther

to

not

narrow,

impression

the

certain

the

apartment

my

right,

often

slept in

Though

I do

at

not

bed in

another

was

not

on

the

the

alcove

an

been

have

something

room

this

alcove

floor

of

with

covered
details

was

perhaps

the
into

see

up

there

might
gave

was

all

are

which

made

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that

was

which

I could
bed

the

each

was

and

the

saw

feel

somewhat

he

me.

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was

he

the

solid

and

there

than

more

the

it, for

I remember

at

the

foot

white

and

red

of

present

1909.)

to

note

seemed

the

day

next

it,

window

large

(May,

The

about
it

of

quilt.

patchwork

occasional

temporarily.

similar

behind

room

but

floor,

in

high

seeing

the

year

have

the

to

with

Howland.

the

fine

by

around

was

small,

marked

from

feet

pated,
dissi-

been
rather

though
Just

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long

also

width,

with

remember

actually

; I

bedstead

grandmother's,

my

beard

positive

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School
was

way

its

full

face

same,

companion,

of

most

up

the

High

less

and

me,

feel

to

room

probably

his

friend,

do

(Conn.)

red

about

man

had

were

eyes

five

or

University

to

second

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to

as

seemed

Wesleyan

this

and

taking

think
; I

if he

as

was

four

studying,

me

older

reddish

him,

seated

acquaintance.

my

intimate

right sloped

yond

of

most

noticed

my

was

room

remember

not

was

stranger

was

fact

induce

to

feet

ten

do

me

face

short,

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Middletown,
I

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man

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vain

the

of
my

had

man

it.

apparently

spite

chum

the

and

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skull-cap.
his

farthest

man,

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silk

wore

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table

he

at

appearing

twinkling;

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was

light

the

looking

though

black

and

wrinkles

of

of

and

age,

wearing

white

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covers.

source

opposite

years

light

Research,

Society for Psychical

notice.

not

thirty

American

even

my

wrote

friend
drew

(except

of

at

of

pupils

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least

rooms

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and

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of
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most

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ter

of

said

he

would

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for

or

July

following
and

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room

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situation

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detail.

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third

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nor

friend's

my

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room

plans

wexe

as

hot

occur

carried

never

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in

person

did

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from

man

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Howland.

River,
of

statement

far

should

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particular

any

St., Fall

Rock

for

leave

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room

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to

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1884.

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rooms

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as

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Connecticut

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of

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apply

successful.

time.

rertifies

but

another

until

regard

actually occurred,
to

me

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^oration

stove-

correctly

of

state

an

uniform,
in

I never,

Mr.

for

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cpected

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information

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to

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when

expenses

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put

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to

out

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supposed

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ourselves
iduce

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letter, and

looked

he

were

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the

in

my

take

not

fact

marked

taken

had

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the

rows

had

never

is

part

ligh; that,
to

had

slightest

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been

and

for

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stonishing

lad

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day.

the

in

saw

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to

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day,

had
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did

me

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word.

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the

told

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in

described

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plans.

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his

kept

astonished

me.

saw

mail,

return

and

saw

next

informed

room

place

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return

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his

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as

to

now.

of

he

he

315

by

answer

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when

being.

when

offered

diagram

time

brief

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greatly

why

me

the

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got

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tell

content

bt

had

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pocket

in

windows.

the

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;

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my
to

went

the

part

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in

Mass.,
O.

E.

Young,

it is concerned,

Middletown
letter

July 3,

which

for
I

the

received

1909.

numbered

excepting
first

time

from

in
him

316

Proceedings

have

must

is

ence

been

written
in

longer

no

American

of

'85

in

Research,

Society for Psychical

'86.

or

existence

I regret
Mr.

verify

to

that

this

Ypung's

correspon

statement.

Signed,
F.

Charles

Thk

IV.
1.

Rap

Statement
In

at

May

June

or

Rowland,

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away.

the

while

Maine,
another

was

most

my

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intimate

friend,

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and

back

forth,

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thi

about

and

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teaching

Monmouth

at

visited

frequently

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the

rate

any

night

had

we

with

night

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room

the

on

have

the

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s]

her

to

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in

there

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old

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lady,

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it

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of

at

in,

after

disturb

couple

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until

up

part

occupied

who

certain.

never

another

also

we

should

we

middle-aged

quite

apartment,

not

am

of

floor

lest

quiet

very

remained

when

ten

remained

we

evening

one

after

retired, but

consisted
first

together

probably

was

had

impression

confined

call

talking, keeping
household

us,

made

people

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this

if

lady,

si

were.

Mr.

Rowland's
in most

always

room

perfect

considerable

size

little of

kitchen

with

table

the

nearly
was

were

exactly

from

the

night

to

ing,

of

an

lamp,

door,
be

large

apparently
nothing

height

more.

on

up,

wall

in

the

edge

task.

ttr^^^t

furniture,

stood

door

one

with

covered

thick).

next

the

door,

slightly

lower.

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against
that
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the

had
this

remember

table

we

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tl

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the

been
had

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of

composed

wall, there

probably

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hard-w"

cloth.

piles, were

three

Latin

third,

was

and

two,

or

rug

unnecessary

inch

an

turkey-wing
needless

the

leaf

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no

or

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sort.

to

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thicker,

somewhat

books

the

size
and

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them

next

outer

against

same

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for

save

substantial

and

the

piled lengthwise

floors,

chamb

spare

and

fresh

perfectly

and

bare

and

wall

the

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order

farm-house

typical

contained

solid

plain,

was

with

and

walls,

papered

of

(I think),

night together.
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of

1883

of

teaching

was

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used

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in

h^nd

318

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of

thing

the

perfect.
moved

the

Mr.

have

not

jar

there

them.

of

any

in

the

part

was

I turned

the

plastering

the

up

investigations,

my

in

caused

been

wall, but

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of

moving

certifies

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detail.

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call

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in

believers

our

certainly

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asked

to

me

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add

of

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the

its

spiritualists, and

while

discussing

room

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condition

electrical)

to

the

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to

subject, and

the

of the

solution

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as

in

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up.

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were

we

desirous

equally

from

returned

interested

intensely

in

correctness

just

and

of Mr.

statement

for

we

3, 1909.

July

had

been

always

possibly

that

were

in

vouch

abnormally

were

has

such

influence

this

exert

acute

an

objects.
be

perhaps,
vouch

for

well

for

the

in mind

bear

to

me

his

of

correctness

that

Young

Mr.

tempt
at-

to

not

statements,

them.

explain

to

well

sitting

were

events

material

over

by

caused

not

Mass.,

carefully

can

witnessed,

had

faculties

(or

psychic

and

we

River,

very

IV,

house

the

we

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mysterious

it could

know

was

H.

Mr.

suspected

wing.

fruitless.

Howland.

read

spiritualism,

cause.

mental

be

might
at

which
their

I have

that

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St., Fau.

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every

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remember

not

were

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the

it

and

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they

rate

any

trick, and

gravity,

by

but

none.

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and

table-cloth

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2.

was

floor.

part

conscious

any

the

is that

now

evidence

no

Research.

Society for Psychical

examined

watched
any

find

had

the

on

rug

took

could

impression

Howland

he

that

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sort.

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of

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occult

his

psychic
fluence

condition
as

the

is

solution

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material

over

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or
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term

has

for

in
the

are

some

the

last

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more

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case,

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condition

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in
as

to

itself

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when

dabbling

so

kinetic

to

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seems

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he

Rowland.

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to

men

young

objects."

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the

years

electrical)

electrical

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unfavorable

decidedly

is that

possibly

(or

statements

telekinesis,

of

fact
"

he

and

matters,

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but

that

considers

one

three

Howland's

Mr.

Chari^ES

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such

an

acute

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condition

solution
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pon
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that

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tiat time,
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mind.

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off

to

me,

would

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the

told

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went

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if

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me,

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probably

trip

then

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control,

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but

in

and

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until

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her

the

also

disturbed

team,

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earliest

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out

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her

me

return

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quite

return

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consult

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should

positive

by,

con-

during

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on

was

might

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night.

woods

it

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with

usual

forgotten

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and

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again Thursday

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tubbom.

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oa

that

telephone

all tired

influence

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home,

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I

is

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as

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sister, Mrs.

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my

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case

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thrown

subsequently,

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law

away

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him

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bout

to

direct.

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days

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back

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an

even

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connection

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some

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direct

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being Tuesday.

light

work

psychic

please

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then

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two

listance,direct,

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then
in

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perform

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319

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home.

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323

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stated.

as

four

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concurrence

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cases

dependence,

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by

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on

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Statement
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in

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light
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a

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sufficient

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neighboring

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perhaps

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mother,

named

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not

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rolled
red

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house,
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up,

still

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her,

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room

high
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room

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was

and
the
was

recog-

324

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nized

in

fifteen

feet

positions,

on

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side.

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furniture.

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again-

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on

the
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perhaps

326

of American

Proceedings

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hand

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indignation,
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mediumistic

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asked
;

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Winthrop

my

scared

answered

you

later,

visited

she

and

was

anx-

more

days

it to

when

fall, and

trouble
and

you

told

and

two

or

really thought

little

with

bed

more,

few

time

next

last

night

what

called

her

surprise

my

be

to

in

minute

of

?", think-

up

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or

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I

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until

called

she

then

of

"

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from

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course

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up,

of

years

perhaps

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superstitious

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call

thought

le

(ill) health.

did

Mother

she

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retired.

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what

me.

wont

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pened

rate

expecting

stronger

forty

by

apparently

me,

I think

any

much

though

from

impossibility

calling

was

and

constantly

winter,

calling

room.

see

the

second

awakened

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to

Mother

that

was

out

worn

the

my

she.

really

was

was

feeble,

so

voice

mother's

was

er

show

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327

Family.

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teaching,

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my

airs

she

the

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machinery

night,

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in

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the

occurrence

until

she

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328

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and

the

so

from

letter

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matter

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happened

teaching

saying

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nothing

during

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at

brother

my

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American

of

fall

the

of

he

said

being

the

his

in

was

to

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matter

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Villa

by Mrs.

above

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to

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time

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son

my

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in

the

it

rate

the

matter

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the

was

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probably

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vacation

next

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term,

and

as

the

to

I talked

and

the

1.

COINCIDKNTAL

E.

day

before,

bad

the

Mrs.

about

looked

in

my

by

me

Mr.
back

toward

to

when

the
of
I

commercial

lost

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if there

sight

know,

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and

it.

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came

to

me

from

studying.

or

suddenly

either

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seated

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something

saw

of

stronger.

were

work.

us

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one.

that

but

deal

reading

and

that the

usual,

and

her

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possiblythe

news

good

disappear
us.

was

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size, edge
of

the
as

table,

center

between

was

and

Hill, Ouida

adjoining,

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object,

and

Mr.

the

around

kitchen

who

otherwise

Thursday,

day,

unfavorably,

evening.

right, why

Hill,

envelope
eyes

the

to

the

That

evening.

mother

Maine.

Portland,

South

corroborations

the

rapidly

here,

in

was

over

behind

white

quite

eight

along

quite

affecting

sitting-room
H.

flash

was

the

Prince.

Portland,

reached
in

F.

W.

to

South

from

happened
received

Letter

from

letter

had

gaining

was

At

my

weather

she

Young

your

Young.

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day

15, something

Apr.

in

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O.

1, 1909.

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by

May
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thought

coincided.

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matter

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year.

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with-

and

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the

Certificates.

written

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at

Young.

M.

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what

me.

was

was

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was

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to

knowing
with

over

particular.

positive.

am

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without

Adams,

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it in every

I feared

this

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written

was

talking
was

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O.

by

was

Young.

remember

as

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one.

as

M.

Y.

B.

Villa

4.

brother

Harbor.

G.

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anyone.

my

Katie

3.

health;

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in

below

behind

or

ordinary

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the
me,

air

nearly

were

like

the

level of

about

the

Experiences
level

of

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shoulder,

my

and

in

the

moved

Family,

Young

slightly

329

downward

and

quite

rapidly.
I

frightened

not

was

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laugh
told

"

said,

and

them

in

"What's

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glasses

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We

least, but

that?"

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what

the

was

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Hill
I said

again."

had

(outside)

fun

some

began

I guessed

to

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it and

over

that

surprised

so

the

and

matter

dropped.
I

wear

might

be

every

possible

charm

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and

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and

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she
she

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she

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her

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me

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her

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it

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the

talk
it

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other

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my

difference

again

matter

till I

experi-

until

came

answered

Friday.

or

except

stupor

necessarily

said,

she

little

Mother

Thursday
or

evening."

and

evening
thought

exhaustion

about
to

herself,

easier,

coming

here.

of

much

thought

which

anybody

or

"

I knew

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so

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you

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of

out

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asked

did

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in

her

scarcely strong
When

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she

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and

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not

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fearing

Day,

and

Wednesday

did

that

Friday."

or

played

Mother

perhaps

night,

afternoon

the

declared

thoughts

and

cough

she

remembered

Thursday

me

attack.

her

she

Then

found

or

she

then

come

summoned.

was

Then

I had

come

think

not

In

Patriot's

being

been

the

but

me

to

easier,

and

see

able

with

was

positively

Monday
had

to

to

had

eyes

in

watch

new

occurred

my

evening

that

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occurred.

tcrfd her

all

we

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connection

over,

mind

my

object

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a

wearing

spells
be

her.

Mother

were

wanting

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in

Sunday^

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next

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she

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nobody

course

she
show

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goes

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strangling

think

not

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^f

having

was

up

head.

my

night, (Thursday)

that

worse

the

me

that.

at

Winthrop

much

could

which

I made

to

I turned

but

back

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and

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home,

as

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actually

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her

worst

like

this.

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Thursday
Thursday

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she

evening

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you

of

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and

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along

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times

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o'clock

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to

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report

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myself
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mother

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satisfied.
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again

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table,

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white

certainly

also

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saw

telephone

Winthrop
that

Hill

and

Friday,
a

for

have,
Mr.

'em

same

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got

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the

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saw

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sitting-room

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reading

suddenly,

must

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if

as

if

him.

behind

dropped,

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sendi^^g

out,

get

p.

in

table

adjoining.

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was

asked

jokingly

it

remark

and

also

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room

time

what

right

the

the

by

about

at

husband,

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in

work
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reading

was

Maine.

daughter,
at

was

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see

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by

worn

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meant

completely

15, 1909,

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us,

Elizabeth.

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I

with

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Mrs.

by

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afterward

exhausted

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mind,
"

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of

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me

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to

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herself;

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to

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of

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began

o'clock

Sunday

have

believe

chewing

to

it.

she

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those

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am

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eight

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the

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somewhat

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Oscar

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was

lying

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Maine,

had

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of

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the

granddaughter,

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my

partially

in bed,

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and

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ill.

and

but

as

Hill,

E.

M.

wandering

Portland,

is attending

Villa

April 15, 1909,

evening,

influence

Mrs,

by

men-

of, substantially

spoken

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Corresponding

Hill.

Witnesses.

present

were

M.

Darius

Darius

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until

return

following.
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Ne,

not

there.

school

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felt
last

conscious

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and

as

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to

thought

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mother

my

later

my

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son

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probably

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took

for

yearned

for

just

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the

manage

the

during

my

son's

his

presence.

love

earlier

thoughts
of

part

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night

by
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s

ill for

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of

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in

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days

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mild

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in

1909,

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measure

she

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this

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M.

Young,

alarmingly

worse,

condition.
had

unless

and

rapidly

been

prostrated

so

condition,
some

him.

to

evening.

M.

Mrs.

mother,

my

grew

critical

previous

which

croup

mi-unconscious

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15th,

April

the

of

her

to

Adams.

by Mrs.

Thursday,

3n

medi-

I spoke

Villa

Corroboration

and

success

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to

pillows

sending

been

and

getting along

were

bedside

the

to

to

they

prayer

came

me

her

how

love

daughter
over

know

victim

the

her

that

of
she

at-

severe

in

remained

aroused.
condition

was

influenced

by

the

opiates.
a

she

particularly
relapsed

bad

into

attack

occurring

unconsciousness.

about

seven

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Adams

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and

that
I

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Proceedings

discussing

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in

Me.,

might

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here

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where

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for

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1908,

complications

her

holding

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just

his

bent

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up

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little

might

night

me

to

for

arrived

for

first

the

anxiety.

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who

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for

sent

at

him,

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nor

death

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is

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hope

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grew

tha"

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and

recovery

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evening,

finding
had

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day.

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his

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mother

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knowledge

no

and

B.

Y.

Adams.

of

account

the

of

occurrence

April

16th.

and

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lication.
for
in

place

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one

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visual

spectacles,
thought,

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to

regarded

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itself
it

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may

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reflection
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nerves,
as

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was

may

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incident

of

that

experiences.

chance

it

particular
was

"

and

family

mere

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phenomenon

curiously
be

oflFer

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cool,

the

not

the

since

as

considered

it

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vouch

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was

Adams.

accurate

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now.

by Mr.

above

she

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no,

Katie

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brother.

noontime

the

she

voice,

s
"

once.

at

Friday

during

comfortably,

more

near

mother
up

pillows.

gasping

how

replied,

gave

be

Oscar."

my

that

telephoned

time

after

she

above

early

hoarse,

meaning

brother

my

pillows

realizing

physician

husband

brother

but

the

to

the

and

in

hesitation,

add

send

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chron.

hemorrhage

Adams,

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upcm

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thoughts

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her

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arrange

face

surprised

she

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to

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in

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severe

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brother,

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her

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for

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the

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335

jingle.

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horn

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the

back

in

period

336

Proceedings

[when]
Mrs.

did

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of

337

skies,

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the

types

in

me.

Winthrop,

Maine,

Oct.

27,

1913.

Oct.

28,

1913.

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Winthrop,

but

here.

Maine,

338

Proceedings

XI.
1.

American

Apparitional

Prefatory

late

Note
21,

have

secured

where

heard

and

time

2.

her

in

Statement

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1913,

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sent

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cousin

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lost

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of

light-grey

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sight

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at

and

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to

smiled

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rear

speak

339

piazza-post

impression

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go

possibly

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until

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with

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to

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life;

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resting against

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experience

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seen

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distinct, and

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time,

the

at

perhaps

well-remembered
opening

aunt

my

my

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drawers

not

as

in

of
her

340

Proceedings

The

first

niglit

the

bumping

by
foot

my

out

thing

for

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apparently

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I

last

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look

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by

last

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Villa,

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and

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since

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place

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her

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of

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rest

before

year

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manifestations

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all

hers,

during

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to

death.

her

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slightest

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me

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to

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spring

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bed

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of

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back

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the

place

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go

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put

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placed
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room,

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conversation
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to

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let

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manifestation

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both

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night,

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awak-

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and

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place.

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floor

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standing

position,

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there

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back

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and

in

and

time,

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the

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344

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thirty-six

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Statement,

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in

words,

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at

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348

Proceedings

"

Have

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fear

no

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Society for Psychical

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of

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that

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angel."
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the

came

face,

coal

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stoop

371

House.

ever
who-

hardly
without

372

difficulty

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power

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Proceedings

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afterwards,

or

which

from

escaped

the

escaping

visual

the

up

threatened

house,

This

brings

discovered,

of

with

trouble

the

Hammond.

gas

the

into

entrance

417

House.

impression

powerful

in

looks
much

us

It

as

is

hoped

the

though
toward
that

the

of

hypothesis

normal

solution

classification

and

gas
of

poisoning
the

would

not

case.

analysis

of

the

motley

of

in

related

phenomena

for

easier

somewhat

If

12.

the

reader

of

part

him

in

the

was

had

lifetime

his

Mrs.

memory

jealous

been

lady

any

saw

at

since

man

if

the

he

he

tional
emo-

in

neighborhood

the

with

the

gossip
had

been

fall

wc

out

may

of

the

the

outlines

went

on

might

the

who

the

facts

in

to

saw

parlor

facts,

which

and

yet

to

to

his

in

after

merely

back

preposterous

Hammond

observed

the

who

men

the

be

would

regarding

little,

occupied

the

in

not

were

it

phenomena

men.

hated

by

turn

ascertained

facts

that

We

man

these

of

related

this

in

Certainly,

context

he

it

man

flirting
that

malevolence

is

two

because

occupied

facts.

with

line

into

fill

no

Neither

Perhaps

be

The

but

house,

household.

number

proved.

Wood.

Perhaps
It

been

the

afterward

was

have

we

P.

the

jealousy.

to

F.

these

whom

probable

Hammond,
in

him.

features

permissible
W.

that

night

curiously

which

and

of

the

be

Mrs.

never

men

of

have

such

but

member

his

well

imagine

seems

cannot

resembling

resembling

may

W.,

hated

spirit

roused

they

is

an

apparition

which

render

hauntings/'

from

as,

herself,
which

apparition

the

room

same

the

Mr.

against

formerly

was

will

"

that

suppose

relict

the

conjectures

plausible

turned

seemed

them,

language

very

make

might

of

"

of

"

the

and

Research.

Wood

the

was

controlling

Psychical

handle.^*

to

active

spirit

for

of

letters

the

Hammond's

complex
latter

Society

American

of

Proceedings

418

his

tentative

attach

lifetime

it

death,
ion."
fash-

SUBJECTS

OF

INDEX

Communications

Accident
Clairaudience

of

Symptoms

caused

by

Clairvoyance

of

70n,

Animals

spirit;

102.
of

witnesses

as

ena;
phenom-

71.

Mrs.

of

lucination),
Hal-

Hays;

Miss

of

Young;

312-316.

M.

of

98.
of

the

67,

18,

Burton;

T.;

alleged

351-359.

386-387,

372-373,

369,

363,

of

gestion:
sug-

282-283.
Amnesia

Auditory

280.

of:

notice

Telepathic

Accident;
Aruc;

(See

64n.
O.

of

Mrs.

E.

Young;

Woods;

380-381,

410.
411-413.

408,

400,

399,

228,

149,

Apparitions;
267-272,

233,

292,

Coincidences;

267,

240,

333,

338-

323-326,

294-308,

Cold

354,

343.

355-356,

376-377,

392-393,

398,

415.

414,

(See

dissociation

Auditory

Hallucination;

231,

256-258,

259-261,

48.

164-165,

in:

18-21,

98,

243-

241,

in:

244.

difficult

273-274.

276-278,

280,

212.

201,

362.

368-369,

373-375,

399,

401,

407-408.

403,

Authors;

aid

Spirit

certain:

386,

47,

63.

of:

29-30,

for

claimed

105-106,

85,

95n.

Experiences

related

27-33,

in

333-337.

to:

118,
Automatic

Speaking;

Automatic

"

61n.

122n,

by

Miss

200n,

210,

21

easier

than

concrete:

";

in

appearing

with
202n.
B

Benevolent

influence

exerted;

371,

368,

Visual

hallucinations

invisible

spirits;

to

Brattlcboro

of:

involuntarv:

132n,

133n.

183n,

194n,

personation
im-

of:

24-'

in:

205.

34,

Phantom:

";

phic

method

91n,

92n,93n,95n,

is

a:

202.

Science;

94,

96,

through

372.

Blossom

Mrs.
a:

in

Hutchings's

ence
experi-

217.

419

73n.

(See

109-113.

Charles

S.

H.
L.

those

italicized).

not

71.

320-323.

through

italicized,

Mrs.

seq.

conscious
sub-

scious),
Subcon-

veridical

Chenoweth

( ?)

90n,

239.

(Those

135-139.

77n.

46,

trols
con-

pictogra-

194n,234

symbols:

Hays-Hutchings
63-64,

30-31,

from

Communications

the

98.

191,

advice

147-148,151

81,

element

393.

Christian

44,

in:

of

part

61,

of

Communication

Hyslop

39,

157n,

through

get
of:

234.

96n,

istics
characterrare

mechanism

209,

94n,

156n.

literary

thoughts

163-165.

280-282.

C
head

157,

40.

communicator

marginal

much

too

139,

I48n,

234.

by

Cabbage

fered
inter-

sitters,

by

aim:

an

146.

46.

practical

in

39.

44-45.

with

212-213.

in:

25.
Dream

intervening

to

Physical:

((Brattleborough);

Butterfly;

by

attention

-152.

Church;

15-16,

41-42,

Suggestion

65-66.

Cat;

152,

concepts

in:

interfered

of

striking;

305-306.

"

81n,

general

384,

261-262.

Body

79n,

136-137,

terious:
Mys-

373-375,

410.

Blacksmith's

by:

confusion:

munications:
com-

104.

Blood:

mentary
frag-

78,

133,

ton:
Bur-

46-

for

44-45.

77n,

In.

of

distortion

and

74,

197n.

n.

Automatist

385n,

its
spir-

evidence

42,

122-124,

291.

writing;
61

46.

82n,

of

15-17,

194n.

333-337.

Inspirational:

76n,

156n,

213n.

character

Authorship;

conflict

of:

98,

liminal:
sub-

method

new

31-32,

supernormal

166-168.

70n,

difficulties

398,

390,

179n.

learn

to

327-328,

289,

48,

co-operation

25-27,

265-267-272,

by

58n,

44,

151.

controls

colored

28-29,

142n,

by

179n.

9, 31,

ation).
Dissoci-

232.

233.

; colored

407,

403,

328-

302,

394.

95n,

Communication

373,

298,

380-381,

The:

wind;

368.

362.

359,

278-279,

343-344,

W.

Clemens

Dickens;

Beecher;
(?);
173-175.

Controls

Inspirational

Field;

102-103.

Hays;

Mother

.54-55,

18,

Grandmother
of

216-218.

Mrs.

W.

H.

62,

75-77,

Myers

George

85-91,

79-^5.
114-116,

201-203,

P.?).

107,

(through
Worth;

Hays

of

Vision

70n,

in).

Clairvoyance

of:

(?)

99-JOi,

Of

part
instance

"Hallelujah"

58n.

Hays;

Mrs.

Hand

189.

expected;

Scrying).

(See

Apparent

249.

monition

357-358.
363.

prediction
of

354,

Horse

294-

36-37

Dividers;

Dream

of
in

94n,

hearing:

362,

of

272-

M.

T.

communications;

to:

20,

28,

107,

115,

113,

T.

79,

187,

131,

189.

162,

M.

to

50-52,

of:

93,

85.

69-70,

146, 154,

attributed

Humor

240.

97n.

125n,

124,

examples

hallucination

T.

of:

Dream

away;

M.

Allusions

245-246.

of

114n.

running

Humor

414-415.

384,

Visual

auditory

35-36.

about:

Hallucination

377n,

of

seq,

functions;

ence;
cross-refer-

Percentages

Humor

motor

86.

72,

statement

381-382.

113,

308.

Dissociation;

67,

Hays:

Mrs.

Heavenly

265-267,

269-272,

323-326.

280-282,

about:

mediumistic

about:

coincidental

of

premonition

from

suggestion;

95n.

psychical:
of

veridical

278-279.

of

Appearance

Healing;
Health;

Death

of

262-263.

Crystal-gazing

256-

digging:

man

to

141.

358-359.

352-353,

76.

Criticism

Door

places

126, 136,

258.
Gravestone;

nie
Jen-

Communication,

(See

control

368,

416-

Controls

Dog;

a:

by:

both

in

68, 96, 104,

120-121.

of

of

poisoning

applied

term

Mrs.

Grave;

178,

195-200,

191-194,

Patience

126n.

notice

(?)

of

Theory

Girl;

131-133,

170-171,

220-223

210,

T.

418.

(?),

103-106.

169,

186-188,

181-182.

reference

cross

Telepathic

Gas;

Mark
78

125-128,

155-156,

139-140.

M.

211-213.

73-74,

93-99,

19-120,

of

F.

156-157.

59-66,

50-52.

276-278.

P.

Jennie

179-180,

Pelham;

Twain;

Allusion

146-149,
164-168.

184-185.

I2I-I24,

Financial
Fire;

ington
Wash-

141-145,

158-163,

(?),

(?);

matters

116.

to:

18, 54.

Hays;

211-213.

Irving;
150-152

129.

Hutchings

Imperator;

Financial

Mrs.

105-106,

Mrs.

of

Brother

of

Some

97,

95-96,

202,

204.

273.
Vision

Doves;

351.

380-381.

246-248.

in

Dual

284.

278-279,

Predictive:

263-264,

415.

275,

of:

Coincidental:

Dreams;

240,
348-351,

289,

Premonitory:

prove:

(See

Vision

of

255-256.

man:

to

Ear;

and

Extra-Corpus
(?)
Eye;

vision

arrow

Hearing

with

237.

238,

254.

Illusion;

229-231,

experiences;

312-316.

Seeing

242

Immortality;

231.

one:

one:

Impressions;
Indians;
Feet;
his:

M.

T.

reference

to

trouble

with

Dream

Inspirational

33,

333-337.
420

357.

380,

382,

366-

388-391.

(?).
M.

in

T.

tion
communica-

Communication,

(See
in).

impersonation

231.

ing
relat-

65-66.

Impersonation
with

328-

to:

363-364,

house;

377,

243-

273-275.

related

353-354,

Wood

371-372.

367.

Eagle

in

man

in

to

of:
to:

clairvoyance

supposed

Illness

of

attempt

warning
relating

hallucination

333.

Name

also

No

51.

Dream

visual

Secondary

Personality).

(See

T.

45-46.

Supposed

245.

Personality

43,

Illness;

Symbolism

233-239.

Dying;

T.)

M.

405,

M.

of

Identity

235-236,

230,

348-351.

280-282,

348-

245-

289,

392.

of:

289.

authorship;

Supposed:

Works

Schoolhouse

Testimony

of

Ignorant

appreciated

not

what

it

Chenoweth:

Patience

by

bv

140,

139n,

T.:

M.

"

Sesame

not

"

swish

"

heard

Mrs.
of

case

228-231.

165n.

"Vibrations";

of

316-319.

Moving:

228-231.
Visions

Skirts

in

196.

178.

8-13,

Password).

(See

Hays:
of

case

21 7n.

194n,

Turkey-wing;

first

at

141n,

Personality;

Mrs.

in

stood
under-

138.

Beecher:

Secondary
"

120-121.

99-100,
by

of

case

142.

Alexander:

Mrs.

Worth:

in

71,

69,

68,

11.

284-286.

246-248.

about:

249.

Trance;

evidence;

26.

ion
vis-

312-316.

Scientific
is

(?)

Extra-corpus

Schoolhouse;

of

Criticism

Dream

Tiles;

also

Hays:

18,

Apparitions)

368,

362,

(See

Mrs.

57.

of

Miss

of

ton:
Bur-

399.
61
Reference

Smoking;

others
Soldiers

Spiritistic
not

Visions
M.

hypothesis;

Stigmata;

of

233-239.
256-258.
253-

2Z7'2Z%,

Pleurisensory

259n.

92.
Reference

unfinished

to

hallucination
;

cross-reference;

phantom

306.

32SS33,

tions,
Appari-

(See

142

etc.)

of

Story

98.

:
:

267-272.
Visual

Stories

T.
In

255-256.

259-261.

254.

M.

235-237,

10.

of:

proof

primary

Premonitory

record

T.

of

symbolism

Monitory

252.

235-238,

of:

Dream

284.

289.

of:

Prediction

return;

Sparrows;

alleged

n.

187-188.

51,

to:

272-273.

273-274,

345-348,

392-393.

305-

149.
Stvle

of

M.

(See

Voices

6.

26,

Worth

85.

42-44,

SulKTonscious

239.

202n,

8,

Chenoweth:

Mrs.

74n.

135n,

156n,

168n,

178n,

179n,

182n.

183n,

194n.

203n.

208n,

210n,

68n,

lOln.

Mrs.

Hutchings:
of

190n.

Hays:

195n.

5. 8-9.

40-42,

SulKonsciousness

and

Warnings;

373-37S.

Weariness

accompanying

White

35.

of

communicator,

stimulus

tween
be:

of

suit

M.

Witness

192.

ternal
ex-

of:

Instances

282-283,
in

Svmbolism

'274-275.

dreams

294,

M.

of

261-262,

field's

254,

233-239,

elsewhere:

Life

tion,

Table-tippinq)

316-319.

387-388,

Telepathic
21-22,

explanation;
41-42,

44-45.

17,

8-9,

260-261,

272,

19,
348.

Carol;
Works

278.

405.

280.

95n.

288,

194n,

?i27'Z2%,

274-275,
328-334,

276.
board

409.

47-48,
422

Prince

77n.

the

son;
Wilof

berry
Huckle-

of

Adventures

172.

T.;

M.

and

and

Christmas

177n.

176n.
of

The

Christian

Puddi'nhead

172.

Alleged

Roberts

Brent

375.

172.

Sawyer;

Tom

171,

Adventures

Finn;

172.

181n,

172.

171,

The

172.

172.

411.

373n.

Telepathy;

172.

189.

183,

155n,

155n,

171.

179.

172.

172,

Arc;

Age;

Pauper;

'95n, 265-268,

399-400.

155n.

Abroad;

Science;
Levita-

Poltergeist,

Heaven;

Mississippi;

of

the
Storm-

155n.

It;

Joan

Mental

64n.

Captain

to

the

on

Innocents

391.
(See

(Vision?)

Following

Abroad;

Gilded

Table-tipping;

3-5, 8.

11 In.

Roughing

269-

luctance
re-

seq.

248.

Illusion

84-85.

Visit

182.

Telekinesis

T.

Telegraphy;

348-351.

308.

206-207,

242.

Tramp
:

280-282.

a
:

373n.

( ?)

periences;
ex-

129-130.

226-227

of

chair;

on
:

Equator;

Suggestion:
262-263.

of
Works

lible
fal-

memory

71,

60,

give

; Tests

Woman

munications)
Com-

from

impression
:

147.

(See

etc.

psychic

T.;

34-

213n.

272,

etc.

coloring,

237-238,

155.

to

Subliminal

401.

399,

Civil:

233.

lOln.

of

contents

386,

about

of

Distinction

function

Vision

254.

5n-7.

Shatford:

Mrs.

War:

40-42,

6-9.

190n,

123n,

Phantom:

Walking;

116n,

Mrs.

95n,

92n.

44,

of

tions),
Hallucina-

24-26.

21.

91 n,

90n,

of

272.

242.
20.

32-40,

224n.

Auditory

Patience

of

87.

83.

293-294.

Visualizing;

2, 5-

communications;

T.

its

product)

93n,

11 In,

mous:
posthu-

(See
:

4.

147n.

Ouija
40,

45,

Jap

Works

Gabrildwitsch

(Sec

Herron

product)

77n,

45, 47-48,
"Name

175n,

of

Book")
198n,

61,

62.

also

172,

124,

of

Christ;

Washington
reminiscent

Irving;

Term

of

1 56.

51,
95.

Yankee;

direct

purported

Travels

155.

Home;

at

possibly
in

Yawning;

relation

to

Dickens:

24.

marked

by

INDEX

NAME

(Names

of

Works

possibly

head;

Connecticut

150.

visitor;
and

176.

223-224.

Terms

Heavenly
Abroad

42,

(See

Wooden

of:

its

40,

31,

114n.

199n,

T.

M.

of

reminiscent

and

11 In.

93n,

193n,

Works

25,

13-14,

4,

board

Ouija

indirect

or

communicators

are

asterisks.)
what

Miss

and

Abbott

181-183.

Heloise;

and

Abelard

she

Irving;
Christ;

167n.
Adams

G.

C.

and

most

on

125,

Alexander;

Benita:

Alexander;

Mrs.
of

characteristics
Alexander

S.

E.

245,

50,

32,

106,

llOn-

110

scq,

223n.
11 On.

(sister

of

Mrs.

S.

L.

205n-206n.

seq,

257,

Crocker;

264,

260,

Mrs.:

Curran;

392.

381,

Mrs.:

21 6n.

161-162.

Jacob:

John

L.

213,
75n,

Mrs.

Clemens)

279.

276.

Astor;

L.

S.

195,

Susy:

Crane;

226-286.

226-227

235,

Mrs.

126n.

Clemens;

281-282.
Kezia

face;

196.

191,

S.

Mrs.

"Clemens;

82.

John:

Alden;

351,

288,

Y.:

Washington

llln.

288-359.

pages

28, 70, 176,

Clemens;

330-332.

328,

B.

Katie

Mrs.

Adams;

322-323,

of

superposed

sees

344.

Emma:

Ritchie;

knew

172.

D
.

Davis;

B
S.

Baring-Goul4j
P.

Barnum;
Barron

T.

107.

D.

Laura

Mrs.

232.

Ward:

Henry

"Beecher;

137-139,

145n,

141n,

187n,

186,

C.

Rev.

26,

22,

9,

family;

and

Blackman

and

Witt;

Madame:

W.

Dora;

391.

Doris

(See

Dyer

Lillian

404-405.

Miss:

147n,

Mr.

Burton;

24-25,

150n,

149n,

180n,

"Field;

102.

Fieldes;

L.

Carleton;
;

T.:

Mrs.

259n.

Funk;

319-320.

Young

Addie

336,

177.
171.

121,
103.

Miss:

102n.

Doris:

10.

of:

case

16n.

293.
L

K.:

82,

137,

186,

187n.

338-

345.

Chenoweth

Mrs.

Twain;

Mark

she

What

174n.
her

arm;

What

8,

she

of

knew

Dickens;

36.

of;
92.

her

real

G.;

209n

Gabrilowitsch

24,

of

77n,

auditory

stigmata
name;

Mrs.

399-401,

with;

taken
34.

language:

of

knew

187n,

183,

precautions

impressions
her

158-

230-231.

Michael:

John;

54n,

7-8.

48,

Doris).

256-258,

"Father

Fischer;

169,

Fischer;

"Faraday;

176n.

187n.

343.

22-26,

397.

Douglas:

(borough)

Brattleboro

Carter

9.

173-177.

Professor:

Philip

167n.

Etta:

381.

Charles:

166-169,

Douglass;

188n.

Stockton;

298.

Bostock;

Brvan

278-279.

Grandpa:

Bassett;

287,

Camp

De

159,

406.

403-404.

De

"Dickens:

394-395,

380,

Mrs.:

Mark
103

116-117,

on

122.

209.
423

212n,

Louis:

379,

383,

396-397,

406.
:

Mrs.

Twain)
(?),

Clara
:

109.

118n-119n.
220-221,

(daughter
74n.

32-33,
llOn-Uln.
144n,
223n.

205n.

75n.
114n,

206,

Garfield

Myen

Garfield;

James

Gifford;
of

R.

S.,

167n.

Glidden;

6-7.

of:

Sarah
E

Mrs.

380.

E:

401.

43.

345-348.

17,

282.

C.

S.

283.

sittings

Hays

103,

119-124.

sittings:
H

Hamilton

Rev.

Hammond;

Harper

11 In.

Brothers;

Hays;

of

M.
of

T.

of

119-124.

103.

of

sense

67.

57,

52.

sittings:

hears

Mrs.

57.

"Irving;

22,

Washington:

154,

165,

26,

138n.

48.

22-23,

9,

172-175,

168,

204-205,

218.

of

James;

of:

Jefferson;

172.

Joseph:
34.

20.

P.;

80,

77n,

llOn,

62.

74n,

64.

122-123,

76n.
126n,

124n,

197,

179-180,

72n.
in

211-212,

213n,

222n.

54n,
Kennerley;

64, 84.

William:

has

record.

"grandfather

G.:

trols
con-

of:

work

throughout

And

73n.

Hays

213,

Robert

104.

88,

98-

board

experience

literary

76,
215.

143-145.

"Jennie

her

of:

73.

217.

66n,

402,

Mrs.

ouija

of

use

voices:

tings
Sit-

health
69.

minister-ancestor

church:

60,

360-362,

152-153,

"Ingersoll;

17.

85.

71,

of:

76n.

344,

Chenoweth

66n.

humor:

70n,

70n,

47.

79-85,

at

66,

semi-trances

130.

130.

333,

23,

135,

133,

not

with

59-66,

present

"Imperator;

fluence
in-

43,

of,

49-52,

11-17.

41,

work

board

she
teristics
charac-

Chenoweth:

Mrs.

Hutchings

84n.

subconscious

12-13,

with

Frank;
llOn-llln.

19, 22,

What

normal:
6-7.

of:

2-5,

:'2.

memories

ouija

16-17,
47.

36, 43.

30-31.

22.

108,

of;

etc.

189.

112,

H.

J.

And

of;

257.

1-8, 11-14,

Mrs.:

28,

knew

124

Mitchell:

18, 54,

142.
"mother

Mrs.:

Havs;

104-105n,

72,

Hays

Mrs.

of

*son

18,

of;

54-55,
Lawrence;

142.

129,

Mrs.:

Havs;

Leach

5-6.

55-56,

Elizabeth;

Aunt

Heioise;
Hicks;
;

385-386.

Darius

328-

82-84.
Home;

120.

149.

Daniel

D.

W.

Howells;

62.

79-80,

Mark

226.

177.
232.

51.

D.:

65n,

64,

61-62,

F.:

288,

281.

Hutchings;

Mrs.

11-14,

18.

M.

T.

31.

2-5,

Emily
What

84n.

Grant:
she

lived

379,

Stainton:
;

89,

F.

178.

188.

185,

186n.

W.

H.:

87n,

communication

Nichols;
424

104.

Hugo:

200n-201n.

211.

of
Mark

396-398.

109n.

Samuel:

1-8.

knew
in

377n,

Moffett;

"Myers;

309-310,

314-318.
Humboldt;

90-91.

St.;

"Moses;

203n.
Charles

Mrs.

"Muensterberg

189-190n,

218(?)-219n.
Howland;

197.

"Madam;
Marion

Richard

178n.

177,

Raymond:
M

M.

335-336.

Hodgson

185-186n.

Oliver:

Sir

390.
237-238.

Abraham:

407.

388,

Mrs.

and

Mr.

331.

387-388,

181-183.

and:

Abelard
Mr.:

Jack

"Lodge;

68.

of;

"father

Mrs.:

Havs;

Lodge;

243-244.

Mary:

Lincoln;

(?).

69

Hill

W.

M.

Hyslop

144n.

91,

98-

124.

"brother

Frank:

Hutchings;

587.

114,

mother

Edwin:

with

of;

Chenoweth

"Great-uncle

Hutchings;

21, 36-38,

Harrington;

216-217n.

387-388,

413-418.

Marc:

119.

41-

79-85,

at

109,

record;

105-106,

240.

233,

377-379,

Mrs.:

Hanna;

25,

John

407.

397-398.

Hammond;

present

103,

92,

throughout

Mr.:

work

59-66,

49-52,

conscious
sub-

1213,
Chenoweth:

Mrs.

board

ories
mem-

11-12.
of:

with

ouija

22.

Mrs.

not

normal:

influence

Horace:

Greer;

5n.

birthplace:

Case

Thompson:

and

Jennie

Greeley;

Twain's

223.

Mrs.

Gordon

259-261.

A:

Oscar:

343-344.

88n.

97.
by:

171,
184-

NichoU

Worth
his

gives

Paine

Albert

125n.

Bigelow

Case;

Palladino

Paris;

205n,

200n,

221n.

183n.

182.

his

family;
Herron;

32,

206n.
117.
205,
Zi.
literary

feet;
Patison

167n.

Case;

Pattison

A.

Julia

265-272,

243,

31.

to

trouble

with

of;

style

jokes;

of

ring,

42-44.

authorship

41-48.

Herron;

in
to

title

gives

refers

his

37-40,

references

32.

29.

of

question

276-

36,

interest

26-27.

Jap

170n.

30,

primary

not

evidentiality

47, 75n.

43-44,

name;

93.

90-91,

21,

of

Jap

50-52,

79,

284.

2/8,

95,
64n,

George:

"Pelham;

156,

Phillips

Lafayette

Hyslop;

50-51.

object;

58,

79-80.

himself

seen

and

255-256.

15, 44,

Mrs.:

Piper;

message

154.

148,

Dr.

learns

Hyslop's

tries

make

to

66n,

46, 48.

104,

aims;

65,

scribes

his

felt;

97,

59-60.

his

196.

de-

139-140,

work

the

at

other

place;

154n.

152n,

86-87.
"

Powers

"

Professor

dying

Ann

106.

of;

refers

to

263-264.
109.

photograph;

Priscilla

Dr.

to

187.

Saint:

Peter;

llOn,

earlier

197.

180.

179.

202.

; 83.

regards

communications

desire

cross-

113.

successul;
communicate

to

to

his

to

get

125.

daughter;
48,

"Rector;
Rich;

133.

Zocth:

Ritchie

through
349-351.

323,
Miss

and

of

name

Miss

167n.

his

reference

Saville;

391.

Anna:

Mrs.

Shakespeare;

gets

"Jap

194.

197-201,

Mrs.:

Starr

E.

15,

H.

194n.

46,

d'rect!y;

220-221.

with

feet;

his

Frank:

96,

221.

139,

J.

167n.
weth;
Harriet

B.:

; Mr.

Sturges;

Julia

but

62n.

(See

A.

Julia

tison).
Pat-

after
in

feelings

170.

Mark:

Twain;

Chcno-

first

126n.

communication;

60.

of;

Mrs.

wife

saw

watch

to

suit

not

125,

106,

265-267.

P..

232.
death;

Sturges

white

trouble

to

refers

135n,

133-134,

knew

Stowe;

daughter

refers
221.

218-219,

his

246-248.

charm;

Stockton;

210.

reach

to

5n.

Mrs.:

Smead;

182.
191-

through;

207-208.

tries

dential
evi-

through;

Herron"

223'22A.

word
pass-

gets

168.

5n,

Shatford;

gets

179-180.

through;

fort
ef-

conscious

157.

hindrance;

Worth

Patience

132.

imperfectly;

Abbott

seems

"mother

of;

106,

195

A.:

380.

383.

Thompson
Tobin

L.

F.

Cyrus

William:

Tobin:

of

Mrs.

Underwood;

167n.

Sara

393-394.

307.

305-307.

Horace:

Tobin;

Case

295-296,

353-

307,

295-296,

356-357.

354.

v.;
in

Tom;

the

Haunted

A.

Mrs.

Traccy

406.

395-396,

380,
46.

Mrs.:

Verrall;

377,

B.:

376-

House:

407.
Alice

Mrs.

"Verrall;

288-290.

Mrs.:

178n.

177,

104n.

232.

Nat:

Turner;

Young

W
Mark:

Twain;

3-5.

of;

References

interested

84n,

clairvoyant
wife

near

portrait;
of

messages;

through;

98n.

felt

The
9-10.

19-20.

cause

fights
28,

Worcester

59,

of

the

to

get

70n,

76n.

"Worth;
119-123.

Elizabeth
;

ical
biograph-

393.

Glidden

Patience:
128,

362-420.

Elwood

Dr.

from;
425

383.

sketch;
Wood

136-137n.

Benjamin

Woodj

peculiarities

5n.

Lew:

Artemus:

Ward;

170-171.
Mark:

Gen.

Wallace;

favorite

118-119.

llOn-Uln.

nomena;
phe-

alleged
98.

experience;
him;

memory;

"Twain;

psychic

in

97.

94n,

works

to

132n.

1. 52,
151n.

99-101,

360-420.

1 57.

82-83.

114n.

cation
communi-

120-121.

name

Worth

but

said

of;

slip

to

seems

one

through;

several
he

to

persons;

real

person;

132,

not

82-83,

119

83.

style

Wrshi

Oscar

Young;

83.
;

Benjamin
A.

Wright"JuHa

(See

Julia

A.

Patli-

Younc:

of:

Family;

Bray:

Young;

Carleton:

Young)

Psychical

Young;

Villa;

Young:

Mrs.

343.

Edward

290.

295-296,

300,

300-304,

307.

305,
M.:
to

pa

a^ipearanccs

collective

relating
ing

343-344.
H.:

307.

303.
Villa

throughout

paritional

tendencies

288-291.

Young;

287-,

3^-331.

Ouida:

most

Young

E.:

'267-272.

to

experiences

visual
of;

corpse

of:

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