Voices

My friend Mrs. has just been in, and given me an account of what she experienced last night ; she is gone home to write it out for you, and it will be enclosed with mine. I can state that I have not attempted one experiment since I last communicated with you ; therefore there are no failures to record. I was at Mrs. 's house last evening, and she testifies this morning that she had not the faintest suspicion that I intended attempting another experiment. The first words she used on seeing me this morning were (laughingly) ' Well, I saw you last night, anyway.' All the interest, as on the former occasion, of course lies with the percipient. I may simply explain that I acted as on the former occasion — viz., concentrated my attention on the percipient, while I was undressing ; then devoted some 10 minutes, when in bed, to intense effort to transport myself to her presence, and make my presence felt both by voice and touch, — viz., placing my hand upon the percipient's head. Then 1 fell asleep, slept well, and was conscious of nothing sufficiently vivid to awake me. Directly I awoke at my usual time, about 6.40 a.m., I guessed that I had succeeded, because I instantly remembered that I had dreamt (as last time) of meeting the lady next day, and asking her the same question — viz., whether she had seen me, and the answer was, ' Yes, I saw you indistinctly.' This reflex action is very important, and I would undertake to tell, on any occasion, whether I had failed or succeeded. The words of reply (above) were written down by me on paper1 before hearing the percipient's account. 1 As to this note, and the one made on the former occasion, Mr. Godfrey writes, I am very sorry that I never kept the scraps of newspaper edge upon which I jotted down my reflections, and the words which reached me, in the middle of the night. I jotted them down to exclude any invalidation of the inferences on score of defective memory ; not thinking it needful to retain them as a check, when I had copied from them into my letters, they were committed to the flames. lxxxiv ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. This case is, I think, very instructive, because of the sound of voice, as well as of sight. Mr. Godfrey adds that Mrs. , though she appeared in good spirits, had been frightened and a little unnerved ; and that he should not feel justified in repeating the experiment. The percipient's account, written on Dec. 8, 1886, is as follows : — Last night, Tuesday, Dec. 7th, I went upstairs at half -past 10. I remember distinctly locki