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Woodville Gardens, Barnes, S.W., Surrey. May 17th, 1884. ^ The event took place during June, 1849 (the precise date I cannot say) ; it took place on his voyage home, on medical leave. Hasell (48th VOL. II. 2 N 2 548 SUPPLEMENT. [chap. Ben. IST.I.) told me it was in the Red Sea that his brother died, on the way to Suez. Hasell further stated that on seeing his brother's apparition he looked at his watch, and noted down the date and time his brother appeared to him, and by his calculations it was exactly the time intimated as to his demise, which he afterwards received. The name of the ship I do not know ; however, that can be easily ascertained from the India Office, as well as the actual date and where he died. The particulars that I have not been able to give have quite escaped my memory, although at the time they must have been mentioned to me. Hasell was in India with his regiment, and his brother going to England on medical leave at that time. u j -yy^ Orchard. General Orchard writes to us on May 24, 1884 : — I cannot bring to mind when Major Hasell told me of the occurrence. The apparition appeared in the afternoon, but the hour has escaped my memory. It showed itself to Major Hasell, and he told me it was visible for a second or two, and then faded away. He made the calculation as to the time, which agreed with that of his brother's death. General Campbell says that Major Hasell struck him as being a very straightforward, practical sort of man. We learn from the India Office that Captain William Lowther Hasell, attached to the 44th Bengal Native Infantry, died at Cairo, on his way home, on the 13th June, 1849. The vessel in which he embarked from India was the P. and O. steamship Oriental, Captain Powell. (599) The following narrative, received from an intimate friend of Mr. Myers and the present writer, is third-hand, and is admitted only by special exception (see Vol. I., p. 158, note). 1883. My grandfather. Sir J. Y., was drowned by the upsetting of a boat in the Solent, in or about the year 1830. On the day of his death Miss Manningham, a great friend and connection of his, was at one of the Ancient Concerts in Hanover SquareRooms. During the performance she fainted away, and when she came to,, declared that she had seen a corpse lying at her feet, and though the face was turned away, she knew the figure to be that of my grandfather. Communication in those days was not of course as easy as now, and her fears were not verified till some days after the event. ^ Such is th