Had the affair been a hoax, Miss -- - would either have been requested by him to re-write her letter, putting Friday for Tuesday, or what is simpler, Mr.Sparks would have adopted her version and written "Tuesday" in place of "Friday" in his first letter to Mr.Gurney.

The young lady, naturally, requested Mr.Cleave not to try his experiment on her again.
A similar case is that of Mrs.Russell, who tried successfully, when awake and in Scotland, to appear to one of her family in Germany.

The sister corroborates and says, "Pray don't come appearing to me again".
{91a} These spirits of the living lead to the subject of spirits of the dying.

No kind of tale is so common as that of dying people appearing at a distance.

Hundreds have been conscientiously published.