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At Melrose, where I was a stranger, I could not have mentioned such a thing ; but my sister paid me a visit about Easter, and I told her. No doubt she will confirm ; but I would rather not recall the event. A daughter of mine in India was expecting her confinement to happen at the end of November, 1872. I was not anxious about her ; indeed other important family events were occupying all my thoughts. On the 23rd of October, at noon, I was alone. All at once, a cold shivering feeling came over me, and I turned suddenly, and beheld a slight bending figure, standing near the closed door, covered over with a loose glistening robe or sheet of an ash grey colour. It looked such a sad little drooping figure, and the attitude and outline were strangely familiar to me ; yet I never thought of her in connection with it. On the 1 9th November we had the startling news that she had died (eight days after giving birth to a son) on the 23rd of October, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. It was not for some days after that I thought of what I had seen in London at that hour on that day ; I have never since for a moment doubted that it was she. I was in London, and she in India ; our noon was the afternoon there, and her appearance must have been at the moment of dissolution. We have confirmed the date of death in Allen's Indian Mail. [In both cases the degree of exactitude in the coincidence must be regarded as uncertain, in the absence of proof that the date of the vision was accurately noted at the time. Mrs. Hunter has had at least one, and possibly a second, purely subjective hallucination of vision (Yol\ I., p. 535, and p. 211, above).] 1 As regards the truncated appearance — a head only — see p. 33, note, and compare case .572 below. As regards the light, see Vol. i., pp. .550-1, and p. 479 above ; and as regards the gradual disapijearance, see p. 97, second note. v.] VISUAL CASES. 513 (555) From Mrs. Perryn, 27, Adrian Square, Westgate-on-Sea. April 1st, 1885. In 1870 my mother was dangerously ill, but just before her death seemed to be rallying. I was aware of the improvement. One evening, on retiring to bed, about 10 o'clock, I was astonished to see the figure of my mother just beside my bedroom door. I immediately told my husband about it, and he made a note of the date (September 22nd). My mother died in Canada early on the morning of the 22nd of September. The figure looked as though enveloped in a faint smoke. ^ It was not recognisable in feature ; but I immediately identified it as the appearance of my mother. The attire was the same in which I had last seen her several years before.2 up ^ Pbeeyn. In answer to the question whether she had ever had any other hallucination of the senses, Mrs. Perryn replies,