been preserved, and I have been permitted to see it and to verify the extracts quoted. The account which follows was written in 1889.
No. 32. From Miss C. Clark[1]
I heard some one sobbing, one evening last August (1888), about 10 p.m. It was in the house, in Dunbar, Scotland, as I was preparing to go to bed. Feeling convinced that it was my younger sister, I advised another sister not to go into the next room, whence the sounds seemed to proceed. After waiting with me for a few minutes, this sister went into the dining-room, and returned to me saying that our youngest sister was in the dining-room and not crying at all. Then I at once thought there must be something the matter with my greatest friend, a girl of twenty-four, then in Lincolnshire. I wrote next day asking her if at that hour on the previous night she had been crying. In her next letter she said yes; she was suffering great pain with toothache, just at the time, and was unable to restrain a few sobs. . . .
This has been the only similar experience I have had.
The following are extracts from the contemporary correspondence.
Extracts from Letters
I. (From Miss Clark to Miss Maughan.)
Were you crying on Sunday night near 11 o'clock? because I distinctly heard some one crying, and supposed it was H in the next room, but she was n't there at all. Then I thought . . . that it might be you. . . .
[Continuation of letter of August 22nd, not posted until 23rd.—F. P.]
- ↑ Proceedings, S. P. R.. vol. x. p. 291.
