An account

My friend Miss P., who was with me that night, I have lost sight of for years. Yes, I often dream, but I have not realised a death in an illustrated form except that once. [One rather distrusts this amount of detail, remembered after a lapse of a good many years ; but some kind of death-imagery was probably a feature in the dream.] (458) Prom Mrs. Williams, 1, Wilmington Place, Clerkenwell, W.C. A shorter account was given in writing to our friend, the Rev. A. T. Fryer, in February, 1883, immediately after the receipt of news of the ^®^*^- January 1st, 1886. I had an uncle, father's brother, living in Birmingham. On the night of the 21st December, 1882, I dreamt that I saw him standing by my bedside. I saw him quite plainly, and he said, ' If you wish to see me, you must come at once.' Afterwards I saw him in a cart, laid in a coffin. I woke my husband and told him about it — said that I felt sure something had happened. He said it was only fancy, and told me to go to sleep. In the morning we talked about it again. The 22nd December was the anniversary of our wedding, and that fixed the date of the dream in our minds. We heard nothing about the death until February 9th, 1883, when, in answer to a letter from my husband, the enclosed card and letter came from my aunt in Birmingham. The impression on my mind was certainly that something had happened to my uncle. The dream must have been within a few hours, as he died at 5 a.m. 22nd December, and it was in the night of the 21st-22nd that I had the dream and woke my husband. 1 See p. 418, note ; also p. 229, note, as to the number three. The following is an extract, copied by the present writer, from the letter written to Mrs. Williams by her aunt : — February 8th, 1883. I have lost my poor brother. He went to bed on the 20th December ; on the 2 1 st I found him, at 9 o'clock in the morning, in a fit. I sent [for] a doctor. He never spoke, and died the next morning at 5 o'clock — on the 22nd. Poor fellow ! Now I am left without anyone. The enclosed mourning-card contains these words : — In afiectionate remembrance of David Gillan, who departed this life December 22nd, 1882, aged 64 years. Interred at Witton Cemetery, December 28th. In conversation, Mrs. Williams told me that she did not remember having dreamt of death, or of her uncle, on any other occasion. Her husband stated to me that his wife woke him immediately after her dream, and that she told him the details of it next morning, and that they noted the date as being the anniversary of their