Voices

My wife being sick and weak of body, dictates the following statement to me : — I, Elizabeth Done, wife of John Done, and aunt to Rosanna Done (now Sewill), testify that, on the 2nd of July, 1866, I was attending upon my dying sister, Sarah Eustance, at Stretton, 1 2 miles from my home at Lowton Chapel, Newton le Willows ; when during the night previous to her death, she craved for me to send for my husband and niece, as she wished to see them once more before she departed hence, saying often ' Oh, I wish Done and Rosie were here. Oh, I do long to see Uncle Done.' Soon after she became speechless and seemingly unconscious, and died some time during the day following. « Elizabeth Done. Mr. Done adds : — Several incidents have come to my mind, one of which is that, feeling unsettled in my mind during the day after having heard the voice calling me, and feeling a presentiment that my dear sister-in-law was dead, I, towards evening, set off to meet a train at Newton Bridge, which I believed my wife would come by, returning home, if her sister was dead as I expected. There was an understanding that she was to stay at Stretton to attend upon Mrs. Eustance until her demise or convalescence. I met my wife some few hundred yards from the station, and could see by her countenance that my surmises were correct. She then told me the particulars of her sister's death, how she longed to see me and Rosanna. I then told her of our being called by a voice resembling hers some time in the night previous, when she (my wife) said she (Mrs. Eustance) often repeated our names during the night before becoming unconscious. The niece, Mrs. Sewill, writes as follows : — 11, Smithdown Lane, Paddington, Liverpool. August 21st, 1885. At my uncle's and your request, I write to confirm the statement of uncle respecting the voice I heard, as follows : I was awakened suddenly without apparent cause, and heard a voice call me distinctly, thus : ' Rosy, v.] OF SPONTANEOUS TELEPATHY. 229 Rosy, Posy/'1 Thinking it was my uncle calling, I rose and went out of my room, and met my uncle coming to see if I was calling him.2 We were the only occupants of the house that night, aunt being away attending upon her sister. The night I was called was between 2nd and 3rd of July, 1866. I could not say the time I was called, but I know it was the break of day. I never was called before or since.