objects of the experiments were diagrams. One was a complete failure, the other a partial success.
No. 9.
The agent, Miss Despard, was at Strathmore, Surbiton Hill Park, Surbiton. She began her letter on December 27, 11.30 P. M., and continued it day by day after the conclusion of each trial. It was not actually posted until the 30th, after the conclusion of the series.
Dear K.,—As you know, we agreed a few days ago to try some experiments in thought-transference—to begin to-night at 11 P.M.—alternate nights to think of an object and a diagram. So to-night I fixed my attention about 11.4 P.M. on a brass candlestick with a lighted candle in it. I feel the result will not be very satisfactory, for I found difficulty in concentrating my mind, and not having decided previously what object to think of, I looked over the mantelpiece first and rejected two or three things before fixing on the candlestick. A very noisy train was also distracting my attention, so I wonder if you will think of that.
December 29th, 11.40 P.M.—I hope this will be more successful. I found to-night I could bring up a much clearer mental picture of the object—a small Bristol ware jug about six inches high, the lower part being brownish red, of a metallic coppery colour, the upper part having a band of reddish and light purple flowers of a somewhat conventional rose pattern—handle greenish. I do not think you have seen this jug as it has been put away in a cupboard and only lately brought out. I saw the jug chiefly by bright firelight.
The percipient, Miss Campbell, who was in Heathcote Street, London, W. C., writes on December 29th:
