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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



I ought to add that the style of design which my hand draws is strange 

 to me. I have never observed anything like them anywhere. Neither do I 

 know of any influence, suggestive or otherwise, that could have given me this 

 power, with the exception (as I have stated) of having seen a man make a slight 

 exhibition of automatic drawing, but this exhibition was long after I had noticed 

 movements of my own hand. However, that exhibition gave me the idea of 

 taking a pencil into my hand to try for results. 



One point I might state clearly. While drawing, my eyes are fastened 

 intently on the point of the pencil in contact with the paper, following the 

 course of the pencil as if they were fascinated by it. 



Of automatic icriting I have done little. Occasionally the name of a near 

 relative will appear, sometimes with figures attached. Sometimes an inco- 

 herent sentence will be commenced, but not finished. The name and figures 

 usually appear either on a face or under or over it. Occasionally a word or 



line is written in (as I suppose) some ancient language, under or close to a 

 drawing. I have never been able to discover what language this is. Perhaps 

 it is, like the drawings, imperfect. 



I had never been interested in hypnotism or kindred subjects before, nor 

 ever attended any meetings or exhibitions in these lines, having always had a 

 disbelief in anything of the kind. 



P. S. Three months having elapsed since writing the above, I have but 

 little to add in explanation. Pictures are still produced by the same mysterious 

 power. The artistic appearance is better and the human form is more in 

 evidence. I still think the drawings come from involuntary suggestion, that 

 is, suggestion from the inner mind. Perhaps it would be better to call it im- 

 pulse rather than suggestion. 



