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What were you doing between ten and eleven o'clock on Wednesday evening ? If you make me so restless, I shall begin to be afraid of you. I positively could not stay in the dining-room, and I believe you meant me to be upstairs, and to move something on my dressing-table. I want to see if you know what it was. At any rate, I am sure you were thinking about me. Mr. B. then wrote and told Miss Verity that the object he had thought of was Mr. G.'s photograph. She answered : — ■ I must tell you it was not G.'s photo, but something on my table 1 See Vol. ii., pp. 680-1. In case 687 the distance was about 100 yards. 2 This entry is undated ; but Mr. B. assures us that it was written very soon after the event. 94 THE TRANSITION FROM EXPERIMENTAL [chap. which perhaps you would never think of. However, it was really wonderful how impossible I found it to think or do anything until I came upstairs, and I knew for certain that your thoughts were here ; in fact, it seemed as if you were very near. [More than a year after these letters were written, an absolutely concordant account was given viva voce to the present writer by Miss Yerity, whom he believes to be a thoroughly careful and conscientious witness.] We have a parallel instance to this on equally trustworthy authority; but the person impressed has a dread of the subject, and will not give his testimony for publication.1 | 4. I now turn to the second class of transitional cases ; that where ideas and sensations unconnected with movement are excited, in a person who is not a conscious party to the experiment, by the concentrated but unexpressed will of another. And here, even more than before, I have to admit how scanty in every sense are the accounts which former observers have published.2 Of ideational cases, one of the most striking, if correctly reported, is that given by the Rev. L. Lewis in the Zoist, Vol. V., p. 324. Gateacre, October, 1847. (8) One evening, at a friend's house, and in the presence of several spectators, E. C. was put into the sleep, when I suggested to the magnetiser [Mr. Lewis's son] that he should attempt inducing personation, that is, making the magnetised person assume different characters by means of the will and passes alone. The first individual agreed upon was myself, with whom E. C. was well acquainted, and my name was given to the magnetiser on paper. After a 1 The following case, though sufficiently like the above to be worth quoting, cannot be pressed as evidence ; for there is an appreciable chance that the impulse felt was accidental. Its interest partly depends on the fact that the ladies concerned report that_ they have occasionally had very striking successes in the ordinary experimental thoughttransference. The account was received in 1884, from the Misses Barr, of Apsley Town, East Grinstead. I and my sister E. had been in the habit, for some years, of trying our power of ' will ' over my youngest sister H., and had succeeded so well that in the winter of 1874-5, E., being then in London, determined to test her will-power over H., who was then living in the North of Scotland. E. was very anxious to have a certain pair of shoes sent to her in time for a ball to which she was going, and there was not time enough for a letter to go to Scotland, and for the shoes to be sent by post. She therefore determined to ' will H.' to go into her room in the house in Scotland, fetch the shoes, and start them off by post. On the afternoon of that day H. brought the shoes into the drawing-room, where we were sitting, saying, ' I've a fixed idea that E. wants these shoes, so I am just going to send them off to her. ' E. was delighted, yet half -surprised, to receive them on the following day.