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and subtle influences are around us can believe this. . . . 

 —Yours very truly, Alfred K. Wallace. 



Mr. Wallace felt the death of this child so deeply that 

 during the remainder of his life he never mentioned him 

 except when obliged, and then with tears in his eyes. — 

 A. B. Fisher. 



To Miss Buckley 



The. Dell, Grays, Essex. Thursday evening, [? December, 1875]. 



Dear Miss Buckley. — Our stance came off last evening, 

 and was a tolerable success. The medium is a very pretty 

 little lively girl, the place where she sits a bare empty cup- 

 board formed by a frame and doors to close up a recess by 

 the side of a fireplace in a small basement breakfast-room. 

 We examined it, and it is absolutely impossible to conceal 

 a scrap of paper in it. Miss Cooke is locked in this cup- 

 board, above the door of which is a square opening about 

 15 inches each way, the only thing she takes with her being 

 a long piece of tape and a chair to sit on. After a few 

 minutes Katie's whispering voice was heard, and a little 

 while after we were asked to open the door and seal up 

 the medium. We found her hands tied together with the 

 tape passed three times round each wrist and tightly 

 knotted, the hands tied close together, the tape then pass- 

 ing behind and well knotted to the chair-back. We sealed 

 all the knots with a private seal of my friend's, and again 

 locked the door. A portable gas lamp was on a table the 

 whole evening, shaded by a screen so as to cast a shadow 

 on the square opening above the door of the cupboard till 

 permission was given to illuminate it. Every object and 

 person in the room were always distinctly visible. A face* 

 then appeared at the opening, but dark and indistinct. 



* The ** spirits " are supposed to prodace the faces. 

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