Place withheld · 1882-01-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
Delmar Villa, 520, Caledonian Road. April 20vh, 1882. The extract you send from the Spiritual Magazine was written by my dear father, in order to give a correct account of my brother George's appearance to my brother-in-law, Mr. James Williams. The incident was spoken of at the time it occurred amongst us all in my father's house ; likewise I visited my sister and brother-in-law the day following George's death, and heard the account from himself. My father's reason for sending the notice to the magazine arose from some friend having published an incorrect statement.
Anne E. Collyer. It will no doubt be said that my mother's imagination was in a morbid state, but this will not account for the fact of the apparition of my brother presenting himself at the…
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This is a witness statement collected in the 1880s by Edmund Gurney, Frederic Myers and Frank Podmore of the Society for Psychical Research, and published in Phantasms of the Living (1886), the first large scientific collection of such testimony. Witnesses signed their statements and were often corroborated by others, whose statements appear as their own accounts. The book is in the public domain; the text is verbatim save for scanning artifacts, and the full volumes are at archive.org.
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