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on the 2nd of October. She tells me she does not 

 mind at all seeing him again, otherwise I should 

 not allow her to go back, but her heart is in her 

 work. My mind is relieved now I have told you 

 all, and if we all add our prayers to the child's 

 they will help to bring comfort to the sorrowing 

 one. 



" Yours very sincerely, 



" B. Jackson." 



Selous was very much interested in this account, 

 a copy of which I sent him, and thus writes (October 

 25th, 1907)— 



" My dear Johnny, 



" The letter you sent has interested me very 

 much. My father was a great friend of Alfred 

 Russell Wallace, who was, and is, a confirmed 

 spiritualist, and when I was a boy I often heard 

 Dr. Wallace tell my father and mother of what 

 he considered well-authenticated cases of houses 

 being haunted and the spirits of dead people 

 appearing to the living. But this case of the 

 apparition of poor Neumann to Noomi Jackson 

 presents some most remarkable features. In the 

 first place, the verbal communication was very 

 curious, for apparitions are, I think, always, or 

 nearly always, silent. The second curious fact 

 is that when Noomi looked round whilst standing 

 on the ladder she saw one of her school friends, 

 whom she knew to he away at the time, coming towards 

 her. This figure was dressed in nun's dress, and 

 led her to the chapel where Neumann's spirit 

 appeared to her. 



