An account

June 5th, 1883. The account of my sister's death (Mrs. Redfern) and her appearance to my Aunt Nancy, as given by Mr. J. H. Redfern, is just as narrated by my aunt, and I am satisfied as to the truth of aunt's statement, and her belief in the matter. [The testimony here is not first-hand. Had the aunt been alive we should, of course, have obtained her account from herself. But since we reckon as on a par with first-hand evidence the testimony of persons who have been made aware of the percipient's experience before the percipient has learnt the event that has befallen the agent (p. 1 48), we may regard as practically on the same level a case where the percipient's experience, though not described to the witnesses before the news was known, produced an effect — her prolonged absence through illness — which they remarked on and wondered at.]