Place withheld · 1884-01-01 · from the PHANTASMS archive
January 1st, 1884. I put the date down in a book I use daily ; there is a page for every day in the month. I mentioned it to several people — quite 3 or 4. One was extremely amused because my friend had not died ; which she always used to assure me was — she was sure — a cause of sincere regret to me. The present writer has seen the book, which is one containing reading 1 As to this sensation see Vol. ii., p. 37, note. 528 THE DEVELOPMENT OF [chap. for every day of the month. The words written in pencil, on the page of the 15th day, are : Night of this day, March, 74. In answer to further inquiries, Miss R. adds : — I saw his sister, I should say fully a year and a-half before I saw him myself, but as this is not to be substantiated in any possible way — and is only a thought — I cannot verify it. I certainly did not write to him or hear from him between the time of my sending the message and receiving the answer, and his appearing. I am not aware that I had had anything to recall him to me particularly. My sister has written the note on the other sheet. She feels as sure as I do that I told her very soon afterwards, but does not like to write more positively. The following is the sister's note : —
I saw his sister, I should say fully a year and a-half before I saw him myself, but as this is not to be substantiated in any possible way — and is only a thought — I cannot verify it. I cer…
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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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