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<^eorgina Bryant. I have sent my father your letter, and asked him to write out the story, and see if I have remembered it correctly. I have not compared notes with him in any way. I don't think it is worth much in point of evidence — however, what there is is to be relied on. In answer to your questions : — (1) The date would be nearly 40 years ago. (2) I do not at all know if the servant is living. (3) I do not know if she had ever seen anything of the kind before. (4) She said : 'A noble-looking old lady with her night-dress on and beautiful lace on her cap.' We find from the Register of Deaths that Mrs. Franklin died on March 8, 1846. On May 26th, 1884, Captain Beadon wrote to Mrs. Bryant as loliows : u Creechbarrow, Taunton. Dear Georgina, — When we lived at No. 8, Pavilion Place, Battersea Fields, Sarah Stapleton, who lived with us as housemaid, informed your mother and me that an old lady was sitting on her box in her bedroom when she was getting out of bed in the morning, about 7 a.m. The apparition remained some time, and did not disappear until she addressed it in the name of the ' Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.' She said she did not know any person like the apparition, but, from her exact description I said it was my aunt, Mrs. F., whom I then supposed to be living at No. 5, Hammett Street, Taunton. The next post brought me a letter from my cousin, Robert Beadon, stating that Mrs. F. had died about the time of Stapleton's vision. I do not remember the exact date of Mrs. F.'s death. Stapleton was a very respectable, steady young woman — a Wesleyan. Your mother often said after, she was the best servant she ever had ; she married a young artificer, then employed at Woolwich Dockyard, in 1845 or 1846. I have never heard of, or from, her since. I lived some two years with my aunt. — I am, your afiectionate father,