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I can perfectly well remember hearing the dream before we heard of the death. As he was a strong man, and as far as we knew in excellent health, we . did not for a moment suppose it was true. If I remember rightly, he was only ill three or four hours. Another sister writes : — ,, . . too^ August, 1884. It is so long ago that we have rather forgotten. My own impression was that Emily told us her dream at breakfast, and that we heard of the death in the evening, — that the gentleman concerned had died the day before. I know I was much impressed at the time, but I couldn't declare that she told us in the morning. I know directly Lizzie told us of the death (she had not been at home in the morning) Emily exclaimed to her, ' I dreamt last night that he was dead.' We find from the Times obituary that the death took place on July 19th, 1877. In conversation, Miss Churchill mentioned — as showing how sudden the death was — that the daughters of the gentleman who died had just gone on a visit, and had to be telegraphed for. The two families lived in the same town ; but the interest of the Misses Churchill was in the daughters ; they rarely saw the father, and had not seen him for a considerable time before his death. The following is a similar case, where the death of a person not closely connected with the dreamer was dreamt of vividly, but not in a specially pictorial way. (427) From Miss C, whose mother sent us the main facts of the case in 1883, and who herself wrote a fuller account on January 12, 1886. In November, 1880, Miss G., the daughter of a country rector, was staying in her father's former parish in London. The vicar of this parish had exchanged livings with her father, and was thus associated in her mind with both her homes, though she only knew him slightly. One Saturday night she dreamt that he was dead. There was an odd confusion in the dream, as her father's death was also suggested. She felt it was something to do with both parishes. On entering the breakfast-room, she learnt from the friend with whom she was staying that the vicar had died in the night. She had heard some days before that he had a cold ; but, as she remarks, colds in November are anything but uncommon, and she had thought no more about it. He had said, the Thursday before, that he was feeling so much better that he hoped to be able to take his Sunday duty ; but on the Saturday he had grown suddenly worse, and died that evening. Miss G. does not remember to have dreamt of death on any other occasion. We find from the