Voices

In my own mind I always associate the hearing of the voice with a Sunday night. You will say this is unreliable, and so it is, but I find that in the recollection of my domestic events, births, deaths, &c., my recollection of the day of the week, with its associations, is more reliable than that of the date. As to any other [auditory] hallucinations, the only one I can remember is the sound of music unusual in character, &c., but it took place when I was worn out with nursing and grief, and I have always assigned it to an abnormal condition of the nervous system, associated with a time of such sorrow that I can hardly bear to go back upon it. I seemed not so much to be awoke hy the voice as to wake to hear it. I had no doubt as to whose it was ; it produced the effect of a passing, not stationary, voice ; the words, distinctly uttered, were ' adieu, ma cherie.' I heard yesterday from the friend with whom I was staying at 1 I have mentioned (Vol. i., p. 573) how frequently visual hallucinations, alike of t subjective and the telepathic class, present this feature of movement. VOL. II. 2 V 2 692 CASES TOO LATE FOB INSERT lOF the time. She says, ' We both' (herself and sister) ' well remember about your friend Mme H., and what a terrible attack of neuralgia you had just at the time when she died.' I had forgotten this latter circumstance. It would account in some measure for the want of distinctness in my recollections. We have procured from the Registrar at Rappoltsweiler an official certificate of the death, which states that it occurred at 2 p.m., on Sept. 5th, 1858. This was a Sunday — which confirms Mrs. Evens' recollection. The death must have preceded her experience by at least 10 hours.