630 F. We have as yet received very few cases of anything like a series of telepathic messages. One carefully reported case, carried out by Miss Goodrich-Freer with a friend of hers, was given in her paper, "A Record of Telepathic and Other Experiences" (Proceedings S.P.R., vol. vi. pp. 377-397). Another series, also carefully noted, of apparently telepathic impressions of a trivial kind - occurring between a doctor and one of his patients - was printed in the Journal S.P.R., vol. vii. pp. 299-306, and 311-319. The following is a striking case of the same kind, obtained from a gentleman, Dr. J. S., who prefers his initials only to be published. The account is taken from Proceedings S.P.R., vol. xi. p. 455. We may observe in this case, as in others of the same kind, that some element of apparent prediction is included; though this is probably often a mere conversion of the agent's expectation and inference into what appears to the percipient an actual fact. It must, however, also be remembered that the occasional want of contemporaneity adds slightly to the probability of chance coincidence between the thoughts of the two experimenters.

From the Pacific Theosophist, San Francisco, August 1893.

The following experiments were conducted by a well-known physician of this city and his wife. Both were somewhat interested in the subject and, upon the latter leaving for a visit in the country, it was arranged that at a certain time of each day ten minutes should be devoted to an attempt to communicate telepathically, each alternating as transmitter and receiver.

The notes, carefully written down while separated nearly a hundred miles, speak for themselves. They also make it apparent that the physician accomplished something more than mere telepathy. In receiving supposed messages, he several times got accurate information of things which the wife had no idea she was imparting, and in one or two instances actually foresaw occurrences which could not possibly have been known to his transmitter. This shows how intimately our psychic senses blend one with the other, and how hard it is for an untrained person to distinguish just what psychic faculty is active. ' The phenomena recorded are commonplace in their character; the interest lies in their truthfulness and the scientific accuracy of their observation. The results are as follows: -

May Iztk

Transmitter, Mrs. S.

Arrived safely. Pleasant trip. B. feels fairly well. We have a nice place in an old-fashioned house.

May 12th

Received.

Had a good trip. B. slept well. House squarely built and plain; porch surrounded by trees; not fronting the road; rooms very sunny. [All accurate. What follows was seen clairvoyantly, apparently. - Ed.] Landlady wears sun-bonnet with jacket of same. Little boy three years old. [Boy expected, but did not arrive until next day. The description accurate.] Fire in northeast. [Fire occurred next night].

May 13th

Transmitter, Dr. S.

Theresa B. and her mother were here yesterday. Also Clara and Emma. Business somewhat dull. W.'s house burned yesterday.

May 13,Th

Received.

I think Theresa B. was there or is coming. Something, I can't make out, about business. I think it is bad.

May 14th

Nothing sent.

May 14th

Forgot to keep the appointed time.

May 15th

Transmitter, Dr. S.

E. and R. went to park. Mrs. A. is angry. S. paid his bill.

May 15th

Received.

Could get nothing definite; think you collected some money.

May 16th

Transmitter, Mrs. S.

Paid a visit to K.'s. B. feels quite well.

May 16th

Received.

You took a long walk. I see a young man with a revolver in his hand. [A young man shot a dog in the garden that day].

May 17th

Transmitter, Dr. S. Nothing sent; business prevented.

May 17th

Received.

Could get nothing at all. Think you were out.

May 18th

Transmitter, Mrs. S.

B. does not feel well at all. Went for medicine.

May 18th

Received.

See a lot of wine casks and demijohns. Something about curtains. [Mrs. S. visited a large wine cellar on the 17th. The curtains in her room annoyed her very much. But nothing about either was consciously sent].

May 19th

Transmitter, Dr. S.

Case of D. will come off in the courts 29th. Business still quiet. Played whist.

May 19th

Received.

Think you had rain. You seem dissatisfied. You are telling me something about D., I am sure. [It did rain, but the fact was not consciously sent].

May 20th

Transmitter, Mrs. S.

My clothes and shoes are all torn. I have poison oak on my arms. Hope it will not be bad.

May 20th

Received.

You went out riding. I see you holding a shoe in your hand. You have poison oak on your right arm. B. is better. You want me to mail you the Bulletin and Chronicle. [Mrs. S. did ride out to some sulphur springs. Poison oak was on right arm only. B. gained three pounds. She was hoping for the Bulletin supplement only].

May 21st

Appointment forgotten.

May 21st

Not at home; did not sit to receive.

May 22nd

Transmitter, Mrs. S.

Visited springs. Very warm all day. I have a sick headache.

May 22nd

Received.

It must be warm; I see you fanning yourself; you were riding; on a donkey, I think. [She rode in a carriage, but saw a donkey on her trip which amused her very much].

May 23rd

Transmitter, Dr. S.

Up all night. Very tired. Nothing new.

May 2yd

Received. You are looking very cross and tired.

May 24th

Transmitter, Mrs. S. Sent nothing.

May 24th

Received.

I see a big church-like building brick. [Mrs. S. went the evening previous to a church entertainment. The description correct. Not sent consciously].

May 25th

Transmitter, Dr. S.

I have a bad sore throat. I am going to Drs. F. and S. (dentists) to give ether. It is a windy day.

May 25th

Received. You have unpleasant weather. You are trying to tell me something about Dr. F. and his partner, Dr. S., but I can't make it out.

Mrs. S. was somewhat doubtful about the success or even possibility of such experiments succeeding, and was fairly startled upon comparing memoranda on her return home. B. is a sister of Mrs. S., for whose benefit the trip was taken. The doctor had never been in that part of the country, and so could not have seen the house and church he so accurately described. The experiments throw much light on psychic faculties other than mere telepathy.

J. S., M.D., Physician and Surgeon.

San Francisco, November 29th, 1893.

R. Hodgson, Esq., - Dear Sir, - In reply to yours of November 15th, my statement is that my experiment with my wife in telepathy resulted precisely as you find it given in the Pacific Theosophist. [In a later letter Dr. S. states that he is not himself a Theosophist].

I came to try the experiment this way: I read in the daily papers of a certain drummer who, when absent from his home, made it a practice to sit at ten o'clock p.m., for about half-an-hour, his wife the same, and mentally communicate the news of the day to each other, as exchanging letters was inconvenient, he being compelled to change his location every day.

As my wife was to go away from San Francisco last summer with a sick sister of hers, we decided to try the experiment, with the result given in the Pacific Theosophist. My wife has grown up in an atmosphere of scepticism, consequently she did not give the subject as much attention as I did, otherwise we might have had better results. Now, of course, her personal experience convinced her of something.

No third person was aware of our doing, excepting what I state here: I met Dr. J. Anderson in consultation about a patient, when I told him I believed in the possibilities of telepathy, and that I was making experiments just then with my wife. He asked me to show him the result, good or bad, which I did. Dr. Anderson never met my wife, neither did he know where she went to. She was in St. Helena, Sonoma County, about sixty-three miles from the city.

We agreed to sit twenty minutes at ten o'clock p.m. In sending news, I fixed my mind strongly on the messages; in receiving, I made my mind as near blank as I could, excluding all thought. Everything I received came to me as a mental picture. Sometimes I would see things only partly, like half of a face. When I saw her arm, with the poison oak, it came very clearly. I almost thought I could speak to her, but I never heard anything like noise....

(Signed) Dr. J. S.

I corroborate the above statement in every detail. Mrs. E. S.

Mr. W. E. Coleman, well known to Dr. Hodgson, writes to him as follows: -

Chief Q. M. Office, San Francisco, California, December 21st, 1893.

Upon inquiry I find that Dr. J. S. is a reputable physician of character and standing. All speak well of him, and he is considered a man of veracity. I can find nothing against him as man or as doctor. W. E. Coleman.