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Durling Dean, West Clifi', Bournemouth, December 22nd, 1883. A paper containing answers to your list of questions is enclosed. I don't think I have anything further to add, except to reiterate my conviction that my friend's etcJw^ov did appear to me as stated. My friend's death was a sudden one ; I had never heard of his previous illness, nor had I been thinking about him in any way. In animistic philosophy, savage or civilised, I believe it is admitted that an apparition of the kind bears the likeness of its fleshly body. Answers to questions as to the apparition at Maulmain : — (1) The printed narrative was written from memory. I kept no diary after my papers were burnt at Bassein (see p. 24 of book). There are no letters extant which I am aware of which were written at the time of the occurrence. (2) The news of my friend's death was conveyed by the public newspapers, which arrived at Maulmain by the mail steamer about a fortnight after the incident in question. They stated that the death of my friend occurred in the early morning of the day his spirit appeared to me. (3) When the apparition was addressed by me, it did not respond by word or sign, at least so far as I observed. I was not thinking of an apparition. I took it for my friend in the flesh. (4) The event occurred some 26 years ago, and the persons who resided near me at the time, and whom I visited on the morning of the occurrence, are dead. The year following I visited England, and mentioned the circumstance to several members of my family, and amongst others, I think, my cousin, Louis Tennyson d'Eyncourt, one of the London magistrates, but it was not a matter that I ever talked much about. (5) I have had no similar experience. I have had no hallucination of 1 See p. 48, note. 46 FURTHER VISUAL CASES [chap. sight or hearing, and have always been considered as a person of the strongest nerve. A. Fytche (General). Mr. d'Eyncourt writes from 31, Cornwall Gardens, S.W., on Dec. 21, 1885 :— General Fytche paid me a visit at Hadley a year or two^ before he published his book — I should say from 15 to 18 years since, and told me the story as narrated afterwards in his book ; and it made a great impression on me and my family. I cannot remember what year he told me, but certainly not 25 years since ; perhaps 20 would be nearer the mark. [General Fytche is under a promise not to disclose his friend's name ; which prevents us from ascertaining the exact date of the incident.]