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108Dear Admiral Moore,—I received your interesting letter a few days ago, and at oncetested the ink for lithium, with the following result :—A word was cut from sheet 4 of Sir A. G. ’s letter, and it was burnt in the spectroscope.Abundant evidence of lithium was obtained.A blot of ink at the foot of the same sheet contained no lithium.A word from Sister ……’s letter at the back of yours contained plenty of lithium.A piece of the picture of the hotel, in printing ink, was cut from the heading of the paper.It contained no lithium.The envelope addressed to you to yourself, having on it the words “Communication from A.G.,” had the word from cut out, and also the word “Admiral,” in Admiral Moore’s own writing, cutout. These were tested in the spectroscope, with the result that the word “from” contained muchlithium, while the word “Admiral” contained none at all.I have this morning received the letter signed “Cleopatra” ; the ink here also contains muchlithium.These results you may rely on as absolutely correct. Is it possible that some hint of addinglithium to ink has slipped out ? May I suggest an experiment which may be useful ? Go to themedium whence these letters were obtained, taking your own ink and other things apparently asbefore ; but be very careful to have an ink that has no lithium in it. Get a letter as before, and letme test it for lithium. If the medium herself has been using ink which has lithium in it, she will useit again, and will be found out ; but if she is genuine, there will be no lithium in the ink in which theletter is written.When I reached home Sir William told me that some people imagined there was lithium innearly everything. After he had finished his examination of the letters, he tested a piece ofcigarette ash for lithium. It was found to contain it ; but the lithium in the ink was certainly athousand times as much as that in the ash.The suggestion of again testing the medium, coming from so eminent an authority, was notto be ignored. I could not say for certain that before the second (the Cleopatra) letter wasobtained I had not used the word “lithium”. The psychic and I had got by that time on the termsof fellow students, and she was as much interested as I was in this test. This much I knew : that if,perchance, I had let the word escape me, it would have conveyed nothing to her, and she could nothave known where to get the citrate, nor, indeed, what to ask for. But, naturally, my mereassertion of this would not have satisfied Sir William.Having plenty of time, I returned to Chicago (600 miles), And visited May Bangs on themorning of February 27, 1909, with every sign of wanting another test letter, taking my ownmaterials, together with a small bottle of common ink. The sealed letter this time was written to amutual friend of Sir William’s and mine, and the usual four blank sheets of hotel paper wereenclosed. The ink used in the reply has been found by Sir William to contain no traces of lithium.I am greatly indebted to Sir William Crookes for so kindly interesting himself in myinvestigations ; his tests have enabled me to feel sure of my ground.In the evening of Saturday, February 27, I sat for a reply from Iola, and obtained it in fortyminutes. The contents were chiefly about a full-length picture of herself, to be done on Monday,March 1, and a portrait of Hypatia which she requested me to sit for (see chapter V.). It wasdecided that both should be precipitated on the same day.(76) On Monday, March 1, 1909, I went to the Bangs sisters house, and found that they hadsent to the town for two panel canvases, and there was considerable delay. At last they arrived,covered with paper that was wet, and I exposed them in the sun for about twenty-five minutes todry. We sat for the full-length picture of Iola at 11.40. At 11.46 the figure appeared on thefurther side of the canvas next to me. It was roughly finished by 11.51, and placed on a chair atthe side of the room still developing. At 12.10 we were told to cover it over and leave it, and returnat 3 p.m. The mediums were not disengaged till 3.30, when we sat opposite the picture again fortwenty minutes. Some changes had occurred in the interval, improving the picture much. When

109I left at 12.10 I had expressed the opinion that the figure—then with bare arms—was toogirlish, and I had also wished for a locket and chain to be put on the neck. I left a locket, similarto the one worn by Iola in earth life, close to the picture. On my return that arms were coveredwith sleeves, and the chain and locket were round the neck ; the dress also had been finished withembroidery, etc., and other improvements had taken place.At 7.30 p.m. I returned to the house, and found the picture had undergone furtherimprovements, especially in the sky and background. I mentally desired that the locket should bemade larger, and that the monogram should be impressed upon it. Now occurred a veryremarkable instance of invisible power. Nobody was present when I inspected the locket on thisoccasion ; the mediums were not at home ; I removed the locket at the foot of the picture, and tookit away with me. My next visit was at 10,20 the following morning, March 2, 1909. I then foundthat the monogram had been imprinted on the locket, not exactly a copy of the raised letters on thereal locket in my possession, but the three correct letters were there ; one line was omitted, and thelocket itself, as I had requested, was enlarged. Shadows had been added, improving the picture.The likeness is not very good. The interest in this picture does not lie in its fidelity as aportrait, but in the various alterations that were made after it was taken away from the window,and especially in the monogram precipitated at my mental request when nobody was present.(77) I have said above that the picture of Hypatia was precipitated on the same day as thefull-length portrait of Iola—i.e., March 1, 1909—and I have referred to circumstances inconnection with its execution at the end of Chapter V. We sat at 4 p.m. The picture came veryquickly after we were seated, and the form was complete by 4h. 5m. We were told to take thecanvases into the neighbouring room, and place them in the full-lighted window. On their beingplaced in this window, it was observed that the figure had turned round, so that the right hand wason the books, instead of the left. The books and globe became more distinct, and the lower part ofthe dress developed its full colour.At 4h. 8m. we were told to take the picture down, and it was put on the floor against the wall of theroom. The blank canvas was taken away; the back. ground now came out, and the picture wasgradually completed as I watched it. It is practically the same to-day as it was at 4h. 20m. on thatafternoon, though there is now an appearance of greater richness and finish.The following incidents with reference to the phenomenon of the appearance of this picturemust be noted :—(a) While it was in process of development in the small seance-room a light, pattering noisewas heard on the canvases, like fine sand thrown upon paper or glass.(b) The colour did not come evenly, as in the other pictures; there was a large, dark patchon the lower part of the dress during the exposure in the small seance-room, causing me to thinkthat the canvas or paper was spoilt.(c) On removing the canvases to the next room, and putting them (pinched together) in thefully-lighted window, the dirty patch developed into the deep-blue folds of the dress.If the object of the unseen operators was to convince the sitter that the “prepared-picture” theorywas false, they could not have adopted a better means of effecting their object.(78) On March 2, I wrote a letter in my hotel to Mr. F. W. H. Myers, reminding him of hispromise made at Rochester to endeavour to reply to a letter from me at the Bangs Sisters’, atChicago, and asking him to identify himself as far as he could for the benefit of his friends inEngland. The following was the reply found in the closed letter between the slatesMy Good Friend and Co-worker.I greet you this evening and am very pleased to come to you. It is very kind of you to giveopportunity of all this grand phenomena proving continued life after so-called death. It is indeedunfortunate that spirit is somewhat limited in power of expression especially so when called upon torelate or recall some special event or circumstances occurring when in the earth form; this my goodfriend is due to the fact that the spirit is over-anxious to manifest in a way the mind suggests, theknowledge of which is perfectly clear to the spirit when in its free atmosphere—but when returningto manifest to mortals the atmosphere and all the conditions pertaining or surrounding to this life is

108Dear Admiral Moore,—I received your interesting letter a few days ago, and at oncetested the ink for lithium, with the following result :—A word was cut from sheet 4 of Sir A. G. ’s letter, and it was burnt in the spectroscope.Abundant evidence of lithium was obtained.A blot of ink at the foot of the same sheet contained no lithium.A word from Sister ……’s letter at the back of yours contained plenty of lithium.A piece of the picture of the hotel, in printing ink, was cut from the heading of the paper.It contained no lithium.<strong>The</strong> envelope addressed to you to yourself, having on it the words “Communication from A.G.,” had the word from cut out, and also the word “Admiral,” in Admiral Moore’s own writing, cutout. <strong>The</strong>se were tested in the spectroscope, with the result that the word “from” contained muchlithium, while the word “Admiral” contained none at all.I have this morning received the letter signed “Cleopatra” ; the ink here also contains muchlithium.<strong>The</strong>se results you may rely on as absolutely correct. Is it possible that some hint of addinglithium to ink has slipped out ? May I suggest an experiment which may be useful ? Go to themedium whence these letters were obtained, taking your own ink and other things apparently asbefore ; but be very careful to have an ink that has no lithium in it. Get a letter as before, and letme test it for lithium. If the medium herself has been using ink which has lithium in it, she will useit again, and will be found out ; but if she is genuine, there will be no lithium in the ink in which theletter is written.When I reached home Sir William told me that some people imagined there was lithium innearly everything. After he had finished his examination of the letters, he tested a piece ofcigarette ash for lithium. It was found to contain it ; but the lithium in the ink was certainly athousand times as much as that in the ash.<strong>The</strong> suggestion of again testing the medium, coming from so eminent an authority, was notto be ignored. I could not say for certain that before the second (the Cleopatra) letter wasobtained I had not used the word “lithium”. <strong>The</strong> psychic and I had got by that time on the termsof fellow students, and she was as much interested as I was in this test. This much I knew : that if,perchance, I had let the word escape me, it would have conveyed nothing to her, and she could nothave known where to get the citrate, nor, indeed, what to ask for. But, naturally, my mereassertion of this would not have satisfied Sir William.Having plenty of time, I returned to Chicago (600 miles), And visited May Bangs on themorning of February 27, 1909, with every sign of wanting another test letter, taking my ownmaterials, together with a small bottle of common ink. <strong>The</strong> sealed letter this time was written to amutual friend of Sir William’s and mine, and the usual four blank sheets of hotel paper wereenclosed. <strong>The</strong> ink used in the reply has been found by Sir William to contain no traces of lithium.I am greatly indebted to Sir William Crookes for so kindly interesting himself in myinvestigations ; his tests have enabled me to feel sure of my ground.In the evening of Saturday, February 27, I sat for a reply from Iola, and obtained it in fortyminutes. <strong>The</strong> contents were chiefly about a full-length picture of herself, to be done on Monday,March 1, and a portrait of Hypatia which she requested me to sit for (see chapter V.). It wasdecided that both should be precipitated on the same day.(76) On Monday, March 1, 1909, I went to the Bangs sisters house, and found that they hadsent to the town for two panel canvases, and there was considerable delay. At last they arrived,covered with paper that was wet, and I exposed them in the sun for about twenty-five minutes todry. We sat for the full-length picture of Iola at 11.40. At 11.46 the figure appeared on thefurther side of the canvas next to me. It was roughly finished by 11.51, and placed on a chair atthe side of the room still developing. At 12.10 we were told to cover it over and leave it, and returnat 3 p.m. <strong>The</strong> mediums were not disengaged till 3.30, when we sat opposite the picture again fortwenty minutes. Some changes had occurred in the interval, improving the picture much. When

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