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a354 MY LIFEwho is buried at Laleham. The last is my brother'sfolding-slate, containing on one side a short farewellfrom "John Gray," the signature being written threetimes in different styles and tints ; the other side is amessage signed, " Your father, T. V. Wallace." This,again, was a test, as no one present would have beenable to give my father's unusual initials correctly,and as he was accustomed to sign his name.The six portraits on paper with the lips tinted arethose of Jno. Pierpont (signed) ;Benjamin Rush (anearly spiritualist, signed) ; Robt. Hare, M.D., whoseworks I had quoted (signed) ; D. D. Home, the celebratedmedium who had died the year before—likeness easily recognized ; a girl (signed " The Spiritof Mary Wallace "), probably my sister who had diedthe year before I was born, when eight years old ;and a lady, who was recognized as Mrs. Breed, amedium of San Francisco. These are all rather rudeoutlines, in somewhat irregular and interrupted dashes,but they are all lifelike, and considering that theymust have been precipitated on the six surfaces whilein contact with each other between the slates, asplaced by myself, are exceedingly curious. Thewhole of these seven plates and six papers wereproduced so rapidly that the stance occupied less thanan hour, and with such simple and complete openness,under the eyes of four observers, as to constituteabsolutely test conditions, although without any ofthe usual paraphernalia of tests which were here quiteunnecessary. A statement to this effect was published,with an account of the seance^ signed by allpresent.During the last fifteen years I have not seen muchof spiritualistic phenomena ; but those who have read