1935
Jan 2 - Mar 31
January 2, 1935.
Full Mercedes group.
Walter asks
1) to get a new sitter in J. A. Hamilton's place;
2) to sit away from the center of the room
3) says that he thinks the 'voice' will be better at the next sitting.
January 6, 1935
[Letter from Rev. E. G. D. Freeman at St. Paul's - The United Church of Canada - Port Arthur - now head of the Theological department of United College - Winnipeg.]
[NOTE: It appears the Jim Hamilton is Glen's brother.]
Heard news of Jim's passing from Elmwood Herald - expresses sympathy at loss - expresses hope that Jim may help from the other side just as he did here in life - faithfully sitting and working with his brother, Glen Hamilton.
January 6, 1935.
Ada Turner; Harold Turner; Mr. Reed; Daisy Muir; L. H.; L. Campbell; Langtry Thompson ( first sitting - can't be); David (Harold Turner's control) gives Langtry Thompson the name "Fidelis".
R. L. Stevenson speaks;
J. A. Hamilton gives evidence re "Lamps".
[Norman 'voice' predicts something of importance will happen before April 15. (Is this a hint about T. G. H.'s passing? - M. H. B.). Voice near Norman is good.]
T. G. H. ill.
January 9, 1935.
L. H.; Mercedes; L. Campbell; Mr. Reed; Faith; Norman (Harold Turner); Daisy(Muir). T. G. H. ill.
J. A. Hamilton appears to Norman and Mercedes. She can hear him say (laughing) "I can still laugh at Mr. Reed's jokes!"
Mr. Reed: "Did you get through to me with another medium?"
J. A. Hamilton/Mercedes: "Yes!"
[Note: On his way to the séance, Mr. Reed dropped in to see Mrs. Herling.]
J. A. Hamilton speaks through her: "You are on your way to T. G. H. and Lillian.(Mrs. Herling does not know this.)
Where is my rabbit's foot? (Good evidence).
"I have seen TOM's twin." (Doubtless a reference to Arthur Lamont Hamilton, who died in 1919 of influenza. Twin brother of J. D. Hamilton.)
[Note 2: J. D. Hamilton finds the rabbit's foot among J. A. Hamilton's possessions and brings it home.]
January 10, 1935
[Letter from Mrs. Hamilton to Margaret:]
"... We have been considerably worried about Daddy - (Flu with some lung congestion), but Dr. Moorhead, whom Glen sent to attend him, assures me that he is coming along nicely and will soon be out of the woods. We discovered today that he has asthma - not heart trouble - It seems a sort of child-hood asthma returned; not a very serious kind but very, very annoying. I was up till 4:00am this morning with him - coughing, gasping for breath just like Dr. Allison - Dr. Moorhead thinks it will largely disappear when he is up and around again - he wants him to reduce about twenty pounds - then he will be a new man in many ways, he says. Its funny how trouble never seems to come singly and when Uncle Jim passed I had the fixed impression that there was more trouble still in store. However, Dad is going to be all right if only he will realize that he is no longer young and really let Glen help him. But you know how little confidence he has in his family's abilities except in fields that are specially their own - your music, for instance. He talks to Glen now ( T. G. has 12 patients in the W. G. H. and several outside) as doctor to doctor - but I'm afraid once he is up and around again Glen will be treated once more as the small boy; and really, as a matter of fact, Glen is fast getting to be a real physician and surgeon - the other day he saw and attended no less than fifty patients quite on his own. One can see already in his face and presence - power, precision, force - that nameless something which comes with development plus knowledge. Then on top of all this, bag after bag of stuff is being brought home from Uncle Jim's place - the usual Hamilton collection - thread, pins, needles, collar buttons, ties, shoe-laces, etc. - enough to stock a good-sized store.
"... I'm so sorry I missed Mrs. Murphy - We went to the wrong train. Very stupid of me but when she talked about the six o'clock I just naturally got it into my head that she meant the CPR. And I had such a nice grip packed for you - music, lovely needles-case - book on the opera, Jack notes, hot-water bottle cover ...
"... I promised to tell you about Uncle Jim's wonderful evidence. He's doing awfully well at it. The main facts are these ...
"... Curiously enough his first message came by a most unexpected channel - through Aunt Edith who is, you know, more or less psychic in an impressional way. The morning after his death, as she lay in a state between sleeping and waking, she suddenly saw him in bed; saw people standing over him ; and then heard him say: "Miss Lawrence, I was glad to go". There is no doubt, from various things he said shortly before his death, that this is exactly how he felt about it, although Edith did not know this. So much for the first attempt.
"... Next he appeared at the first regular sitting held by the large group (Sunday, December 30). We were singing "Lead, Kindly Light" when Harold suddenly said "There's Uncle Jim. He's beside you (Lillian Hamilton). He is smiling." Then Mercedes saw him. She said that two of his brothers were with him - or at least they looked like Hamiltons to her. Suddenly Harold began to sob as if Uncle Jim felt a little emotion at being so suddenly parted from the world he had known so long. Mercedes said that someone said we were to sing the last verse of "Lead Kindly Light" over again. Walter, Lucy and Katie in turn all spoke of his passing. They said he had made the transition easily; that his home was prepared for him; that his knowledge of psychical matters had been a very great help to him; that his family had met him; that they had taken him to a home for a long rest, but that he would be helping us almost immediately. Walter, in his usual whimsical manner of speech, said he was going to have him for his assistant mechanic. All this was probably true, but as you will see, not to be classed in the strictly evidential class ...
"... Then came the Jack sitting five days later (January 4). Again messages from Uncle Jim - this time transmitted by the purporting Arthur who said that Uncle Jim was with him; that he was very happy; and found things not at all strange; and that he wanted me, Lillian Hamilton, to divide up his things, and that he knew I would give them where they gave the most happiness. He also wanted me to take care of "T. G" - an interesting bit of advice when it was that night about 1:00 am that Daddy first showed signs of taking the flu and of being really down-right sick. He also said (through A) that he was sorry that he had not been able to be of as much help to T. G. as he would have liked. (His physical condition undoubtedly made work difficult for him for some time back)
"... Real evidence, however, began to come in yesterday and in the following manner. Mr. Reed, on his way over to the Mercedes-Norman sitting stopped in for a minute to see Mrs. Herling in order to inquire after her husband, who had been very ill. He found that the husband is on the road to recovery, and while she was telling him this she suddenly popped into trance. Her brother came and said that "Dr. Jim" was there and that Dr. Jim said: "You are going over to see ... Lillian and T. G. (fact unknown to medium); I can still laugh at Scotch jokes; Where is my rabbit's foot? The latter was an excellent piece of evidence for two days ago Jimmy brought home Uncle Jim's rabbet-foot and we were looking at it - a thing of course of which Mrs. Herling neither knew Uncle Jim possessed, or that it had already been moved. But that was not all: The big sitting went on, and sure enough, Uncle Jim appeared to both clairvoyants as we were singing his hymn, or at least the one he always liked best "Lead Kindly Light:" Both saw him very clearly; both said that he was laughing heartily; both saw even his watch-chain they said. Presently Mercedes heard him speak (She had not been told anything about the Herling episode) "Tell Mr. Reed I got through to him and that I can still enjoy his jokes" - a splendid piece of cross-over, the direct reference to Reed and jokes being real good stuff. I forgot to say that through Mrs. Herling Uncle Jim also said that he was with TOM's twin - a good cross-reference to what had come through Jack. He also made an indirect but unmistakable reference to the scolding I gave him over the phone (when you "sicced" me on), through Mrs. Herling Altogether he has, as Mr. Freeman would say, done a good piece of work.
"...Funny and human touches came to light, too, that you might find interesting. For example. Lucy said the controls could hardly wait to see him, they were so anxious to greet - face to face at last - , one of the members of our group. They said, however, that his family came first. Then Walter says he is quite jealous because (UL?) has his BLUE ROBE already - and he hasn't one, even yet after all the hard knocks he has endured working for us! Mercedes claims to have seen him wearing his blue robe, which, as you know, is supposed to be a mark of spiritual advancement. It's all very wonderful and I've no doubt wholly true.
"... I almost forgot to tell you that Jimmy got through CLEAR - the excellent mark of 91 in physics - the rest moderate.
January 13, 1935.
Full group, including T. G. H. and L. Thompson.
Lucy states that new York is now opening up. Walter asks Mr. Reed to sit again with Mrs. Herling, to give J. A. Hamilton an opportunity to present further evidence.
January 16, 1935.
Norman (Harold Turner); Faith; Florence; Sheba( Lillian Hamilton); Lou Campbell; Fidelis (L. Thompson); Sun Yan ( Mr. Reed); Mercedes ( Susan Marshall).
Norman in deep trance, on floor. Voice near Norman - R. L. Stevenson speaks in broad Scottish accent, very whimsical. Walter asks for someone to take Percy's place.
T. G. H. absent.
January 18, 1935.
Jack MacDonald; Lillian Hamilton; and T. G. Hamilton ( latter part of time.)
Sterge comes, says that probably we will be getting work of the Stevensonian type.
Speaks of J. A. (Hamilton?) Says the latter is being coached by Arthur Hamilton.
Says that J. A. (Hamilton?) finds the processes of communication very complex.
R. L. Stevenson dictates:
"Catrina Buxton had been a beautiful girl but she never knew nor tried to bring out that natural beauty which she had. Nature had indeed been kind to Catrina but Catrina had no' been very kind to nature. She hid under swaddling upholstery that lissome beauty which under a more understanding choice of garments would have enhanced her so physically that the great beauty which was hers mentally and spiritually would have shown forcibly forth. Much has been said in song and story about a girl's face out-shining the enshrouding mass of her clothes, but in life we know that everything about us that cultivates dark moss around about us and on our beings, shades somewhat darkly our inner glories."
R. L. Stevenson chats. Wants Lillian to know that if he has succeeded in a measure in his work of communicating it has been largely because of her faith in him, her interest in his special type of work, and her friendship and love for him personally. This has been his rock and his star. He wants Margaret to know also that she is often in his thoughts; that he is deeply sincere in his love for her, also.
Sterge comes and closes the sitting.
January 21, 1935.
Ewan; L. H.; Dr. and Mrs. Chown; T. G. H.
Through Ewan, Schrenck-Notzing gives long talk on origin and use of teleplasm.
January 21, 1935
[Letter from Lillian Hamilton to Margaret Hamilton Bach.]
"... Your nice chatty letters have been duly devoured and appreciated by the various members of your family and brought cheer and warmth within when it was thirty-five and forty "below" outside. Ugh! The weather has been terrible - not fit for a white man, even Daddy says. He, poor man, is just getting about again and feels the bitter cold terribly. Except for one little jaunt out on Saturday (Aunt Edith took me to see "The Little Minister") I have remained religiously indoors, where my hair is rapidly growing greyer, planning and scheming to find places to hide away the untold million of "stuff" daily being brought over from Uncle Jim's. Pins, needles, buttons, handkerchiefs, ties, socks, shirts, lead-pencils, pens, erasers, rubber bands, thread, collar buttons, medical instruments, books!! Suits, underwear, radio parts, etc., etc., and so on. As per usual, Daddy is sure all will be lost and thrown carelessly to the four winds of heaven. Jimmy and I hold tight, and like Brer Rabbit , "Lie low and say nothing." Some day I'm going to live in a house that is 'bare without and bare within.' Heaven to me will now be a Greek habitation of classic simplicity. I have now had the residue of four left-overs - Grandma's, my own mother's, (little enough of that), Uncle Will's and now Uncle Jim's. Take my advice and keep your belongings down to an exact minimum - what you need for beauty and comfort and work and NOTHING MORE. Selah.
"... You ask about the "voice". It is too good to be true: for four sittings now we have actually heard what undoubtedly seems to be whisperings from the "Other Side". Sometimes the whispers come from near Mercedes; more often from some point near Harold as he lies in deep trance on the floor. It gives every impression of being produced by some mechanical device very like that used with Margery and occasionally with Dawn. The "mouth" seems to have no lips for so far all the words are minus the letters that the lips would form - a voice husky, guttural, and unable to form the "M"s and "N"s and "P"s and so on. On the Wednesday sitting last, however, the voice was fine - fairly loud, clear and with the consonants not badly enunciated. And who do you think was the communicator? Our beloved Robert. Just the same dear whimsical, tender, teasing Scotch laddie that he is through Jack. The similarity of the personality manifested was remarkable - and very heat-warming. Then last night (Sunday) he came again (The voice was weaker but fairly clear) "joshed awhile and then gave way to ... Raymond Lodge! - a totally different type who spoke in an English voice - used the word jolly a lot and spoke of his father, Sir Oliver. (I will send you the full report - you'll find it interesting - very much so) I'm so glad for all our sakes that this new venture has turned out successfully, but especially for Ada's sake; her belief in the coming of the direct voice has been so strong that one is glad to find it justified. Tell Jim his work will be of very great value in relaying and amplifying these whispering voices. Daddy is very pleased at getting his help - Very.
January 23, 1935.
Lillian Hamilton and Jack MacDonald.
Sterge comes. Says he is glad that Mademoiselle Grace is coming. Pleased to have workers who are non-temperamental. Their spirit of give and take was exceedingly helpful to the workers on their side.
R. L. Stevenson: "I'm here now. I'm no' bad at all! It's grand to talk to you again. So you're wondering where Catrina came from? (True. Medium did not know this. L. H.) Every bit of Catrina's body and soul combined to have her beautiful and to grow old gracefully, but there was something she hid that sought to circumvent nature. What, I know not. Something which cast a definite dullness over that what might have been a glowing, vital life. Most probably it was her environment and early training (plus perhaps the lack of pre-requisite faculties) toward this very thing which, given a different environment, would have turned itself into a more usefully beautiful channel."
Sterge returns and talks for a while. He leaves and R. L. Stevenson dictates again:
"... I was thinking just now of the quality of goodness and feeling that when one wrote or spoke of goodness being a thing of quality they were invariably and inherently right. So also do I think we should speak of quality and evil - the coarseness of it; and refer not to the quality of evil but to the lack of the quality of goodness which resolves itself into a comparison between the finest linen and the coarsest sacking ...The finer things of life we desire to partake of, and to taste, are served at their best on linen which is of the quality of goodness, and could not, we feel, be suitably set out on a table covered with sacking ...
"In life, we are our own hosts serving to our needs the best fare and sustenance we can provide, calculated for our mental nourishment and palatable enjoyment; and no table is more powerfully compelling, more appetizingly stimulating, than that which is spread with a cloth that is of the quality of goodness, that glows beneath the candle-light of love, that shines with a clear polish of the utensils of love, and that offers to keep us clean, - the serviettes of experience and religious principles. These are the things we need for a spiritual banquet ...
"I'll be wrapping my cloak about me and be stepping out into the wind again. It's damp and shiny the cobblestones are the night; and if the lamps were more bright, perhaps I should be less afraid; but not knowing between lamp and lamp what I am to meet, I shrug forward with a sense of adventure. Along life's cobble-stones, from lamp to lamp, from day to day, and year to year; and each lamp a corner nearer home, where light and warmth and love and laughter are. No greater impression do I make on these cobblestones than many a weary foot that has passed on before me. But I pray for this: that none sae (so) lightly lift his feet each from each; and non sae lightly press forward from lamp to lamp ..."
"Good night."
January 23, 1935.
Mercedes full group.
Norman in cabinet.
R. L. Stevenson speaks with direct voice.
January 24, 1935 Saturday
[Letter from Lillian Hamilton to Margaret Hamilton Bach.]
"... I was hoping I would get a letter today for I can't help wondering how you and Jimmy are - grippe everywhere and you said you were feeling miserable. Aching bones, I expect. Daddy is still miserable - dragged out feeling - and Elna is quite unwell now. No temperature but very tired, has a bad cold in her head, and also aching frame-work. So far I'm fine. Do drop me a line to say how you are.
"... Sitting last night with Jack - splendid. R. L. Stevenson came through with the real Stevensonian flavor. (I will send the full reports on soon). Listen to his closing:
"... 'I'll be wrapping my cloak about me and be stepping out into the wind. It's damp and shiny and cobble-stone streets are the night. And if the lamps were more bright perhaps I should be less afraid; but not knowing between lamp and lamp what I am to meet, I shrug forward with a sense of adventure. Along life's 'cobblestones' ... from lamp to lamp, from day to day, and from year to year, and each lamp a corner nearer home where light, and warmth, and love and laughter are! No greater impression do I make on these cobble-stones than many the weary feet that have passed on before me; but this I pray: that none so lightly lift his foot each from each, and none sae lightly press forward from lamp to lamp ... I'll be saying good nicht to ye, lass'"
"... Good, isn't it? All rolled into one - memories of Edinburgh wind and rain and flickering street lamps - memories of his love of the sense of adventure - and now - a comparison of all these to the way of life and its final step and what lies at the end.
"... Then at the Jack sitting Friday, Sterge and Louis both came - Louis for the first time in over two months. He sent you the tenderest message - He wants you to know that he loves you tenderly, deeply and sincerely and always will. He wants you to think of him often - not as a spirit but as a living man who will watch over you and do all in his power to help you reach the heights of development and service to God and Humanity. I couldn't get it verbatim - but he said "Never mind that - send her the gist of my message and I will be satisfied." He say that it is not enough to let people know that we love them; we must say it again and again. Then he gave you and I another type of message: (Told by means of a little story) We are to put our best goods physically in our front window - my own doctrine but how much better his phrasing.
(Robert dictating:)
"...'Catrina Buxton had been a beautiful girl but she never knew nor tried by any means to bring out that natural beauty which she had. Nature indeed had been kind to Catrina, but Catrina had not been very kind to nature. She hid under swaddling upholstery that lissom beauty which a more understanding choice of garments would have enhanced her so, physically, that the great beauty which was hers mentally and spiritually would have shown forcibly forth ..."
(Robert Chatting)
"... I once knew a girl like that; but that's no her name. But I do believe we must always put our best goods in the shop window; no matter how many lovely things you have in the back room of your personality it is very necessary that the passer-by see something of these precious things ... you must have a more beautiful you - to look up to and live up to - a rarer more sublimated condition - that more beautiful beauty ...
"... I failed to get it, only in spots, but you will see what he was driving at. In a nutshell he meant that where there was mental and spiritual beauty in the character, physical comliness, enhanced, would draw the attention of the on-looker to that inner beauty. Apparently it is on this basis that the shining garments of heaven are allocated out.
"...Last Friday, Daddy and I went to the University Alumni play "The Late Christopher Bean" in which Grace Matheson played the stellar part - and good she was - indeed - without her the play would have been rather dragging.
"... Elna is still very miserable - one day well and the next day almost crying with the pain above her left eye. Both doctors are doing all that can be done for her - nose spray, heat, rest, vaccine, but it is very stubborn. There has been a great deal of this trouble here resulting from the flu epidemic of a month ago. Altogether we are not such a very cheerful household - I alone am fit and well. (Hurrah for the old lady, says I)
"... Daddy is not very well this morning - he is again short of breath and very tired. He seems to have an asthmatic condition that is rather distressing to him and to all of us. He thinks he will be all right when he gets well rested. Up till yesterday he has been fine - working hard and quite like his old self. I'll write tomorrow and tell you how he is. Glen is up and around now - out yesterday (a very warm, lovely day for February) in his car for a ride and felt much better for smelling the out-doors, he said. He will probably return to the W. G. H. about Wednesday.
"... Our psychics are going ahead by leaps and bounds now. The semi-direct voice (It seems to be a voice-box placed inside the medium's throat) was the best yet at last night's sitting. And our Robert Louis spoke through it in his broad and delightful Scotch tongue in a way to fairly fascinate and thrill - me at least. It was so like the man we know through Jack - only a little more forceful and whimsical and humorous, with a bit more of the boss thrown in. He seems to be helping Walter now as a close-in control, actually supervising the working out of the various experiments. Doyle spoke - also Spurgeon. You wrote about wanting to get copies of the Walter sittings from the first: how singular, for I already have a copy ready for you of all the 28 sittings and will send them along immediately. Your letter, my dear, has just come in and as usual I ate it up. So sorry that my chile is lonesome for real news of home, and I promise I shall not neglect you again no matter what happens. But these last two weeks with Elna off the running surely "downed me". A note also from Crandon asking T. G. to publish in their journal. Well, we'll see."
January 27, 1935.
Mercedes-Norman full group.
Direct voice used only for a short interval. David (Norman's control) says he will co-operate with Ewan's controls. Mercedes cataleptic trance for 15 minutes; examined by T. G. H. and found to be very rigid, with breathing imperceptible; pulse slow; anesthetic. Ewan and Norman are to sit alternately.
January 28, 1935.
Ewan sitting.
Schrenck speaks at length on teleplasm and energy, will, etc., from the disembodied point of view.
Schrenck-Notzing/Ewan: Teleplasm is produced by transmutation of living body cells."
T. G. H.: "What causes the transmutation?"
Schrenck-Notzing/Ewan: "The will of the Creator. Here our flowing energy can be made to exhibit the will of the Creator."
T. G. H.: "Why the imperfections on the teleplasms? Why the partial forms?"
Schrenck-Notzing/Ewan: "We are gross to some extent, though not so static as you. We are not altogether will or energy: there is not a complete flow of energy for creation; certain impulses must be eliminated. If we could get pure energy we could do what you call miracles." At this point the communicator intimates that he had seen, on his side, forms created, having all the appearance of living man! But that he had not reached that stage yet.
T. G. H.: "You go on, then?"
Schrenck-Notzing/Ewan: "I think we go on. I think to."
T. G. H.: "Will man ever be able to produce teleplasm experimentally?"
Schrenck-Notzing/Ewan: "Yes, when you are able to produce the trance state experimentally. The day will come when your scientists will, in their laboratories, produced this substance; but they will not be able to create forms. This can only be done by those living in a more fluidic state (the disembodied state) by those able to manipulate the more potent and purer energies."
T. G. H.: "How would you define a 'control?'"
Schrenck-Notzing/Ewan: "A control is anyone exerting an influence from a disembodied existence."
T. G. H.: "Do you control singly or in groups?"
Schrenck-Notzing/Ewan: "In groups. A single control would, I would say, be extremely dangerous, found only in cases of extreme fanaticism - a devil possession, you might say."
T. G. H.: "How would you define a communicator?"
Schrenck-Notzing/Ewan: "A communicator is a disembodied entity who transmits his thoughts, someone who comes to a 'desk' and gives a 'telegram' so to say. I am a communicator."
T. G. H.: "Multiple control then ensures better communication?"
Schrenck-Notzing/Ewan: "Assuredly. All good control is multiple. But much depends on the capacity for controlling, and the capacity for being controlled. Power of controlling depends largely on the power of controlling the nervous system , and using a system to communicate."
Re: Teleplasms - "When we get hold of these specialized cellular formations we can employ them to create with great facility, along the lines of their normal occupation."
January 30, 1935.
Mercedes-Norman sitting. Full group.
Instructions re Ewan circle: two chairs in cabinet. Order of seating: clockwise: Sun Yan (Mr. Reed), Lou Campbell, Ham (T. G. H.), Mercedes, Norman, Faith, Fidelis (L. Thompson), Florence, Ewan, L. H. Cabinet empty at first. The ends are not to be connected, unless group are told to do so. Walter continues to give instructions with Ewan.
Voice very faint, only a few words spoken. Walter gives instructions re Ewan sitting. Light is called for. Florence gives the signal. T. G. H. fails to give the light quickly.
January, 1935
[Letter from Mrs. Hamilton to Margaret:]
"... Getting hungry for a letter from you - busy, busy getting our wonderful cross-correspondence report off to Fodor in London - a great story - have a copy for you nearly ready - also a copy of the Walter/Mary M. stuff up to the end of 1929 - I will send it next week.
"... Daddy not very well again but better tonight. He is working too hard - Will be glad when Glen is through and ready to take a hand.
"... Jim, in Jack's Tux, went to the big color night dance last night - he took Judge Adamson's daughter - a niece of Emma's, I suppose.
Jack M. is looking very tired - has lost ten pounds since Xmas, so he needs his holidays. I do hope he sees you; at any rate I sent a kiss by him - so here's hoping for safe delivery."
February 3, 1935.
Mercedes; Mr. Reed; Lou Campbell; T. G. H.; Ada Turner; Langtry Thompson; Daisy; L. H.; Harold Turner, in order. Guest - Mrs. McCreary.
Lucy says she has much power. Walter wants her to be put in the circle to give him a chance to look her over. Voice heard simultaneously with Norman and Mercedes. Voice is used throughout the evening. Mercedes in cataleptic trance near close of sitting. Florence in cabinet for second half hour.
Doyle (through Mercedes) speaks: "There is no death!" This is his great message. He prays fervently for more proof. Asks for one verse of his hymn "Summerland."
[Controls complain that light has unaccountably entered the room. I found that the door had accidentally been left ajar between sittings - L. H.]
Controls order that no white light to enter room, and no one is to cross the center of the floor. R. L. Stevenson appears early in the sitting and gives Mercedes a vision of a house close to him on the island; he is worried.
February 10, 1935.
Full Mercedes-Norman sitting.
"Voice" used for a few minutes. J. A. Hamilton speaks for first time through Mercedes; shakes hands with everyone in characteristic manner. Florence in cabinet for second half hour.
Walter repeats his order for the Ewan sitting; says he has removed his "form" to the back of the cabinet. Mercedes and Norman are to be sitters until called for. Black Hawk will protect them .
New sitters: Mrs. McCreary; Gordon Snyder.
February 12,1935.
Special sitting.
3:00 p.m. to 4:10 p.m..
For cross-evidence with London, England. Order of sitters: Dawn in cabinet when Direct Voice is speaking. Mercedes, Fidelis (Thompson), Dawn; T. G. H.; L. H.; Norman. Jack MacDonald; L. H.; T. G. H.; J. M.; Grace MacDonald, Secretary.
Philip sitting:
Note: Cross-references obtained at both sittings. See progress reports.
February 13, 1935.
Ewan with full group. Mr. Reed; Lou Campbell; T. G. H.; Mercedes; Norman ( Harold Turner); Ada Turner; Langtry Thompson; Daisy Muir; H. Green; L. H.; Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Chown; and Mrs. Saunders at back of room.
Schrenck controls Ewan. He placed Mercedes in cataleptic trance.
Dawn reminds us that cross-correspondence work was forecast. Find Norman's statement, November 1, 1934.
February 13, 1935.
Our distinguished Dr. T. Glen
Had a very professional "Ahem"
He used it of course
With dignified force
Without even disturbing his phlegm.
The absence of Mademoiselle Margaret
Is a matter of mutual regret,
But on notes she's still keen
Just now it's the long green
To buy a chapeau plumed with egret.
February 17, 1935.
Norman; Mercedes( in cabinet); Sun Yan; Louise; T. G. H.; Faith; Mr. Brodie; Florence; Mr. Snyder; Mr. McCreary; Fidelis, L. H.
Several hymns sung.
Dr. J. A. Hamilton appears, seen simultaneously by Mercedes and Norman. He shows a black tin box with papers in it. T. G. H. says that J. A. Hamilton had safety box of this description. This fact not known to anyone else.
Norman gets the impression to sing for Doyle. Group sings "The Summerland On High."
Mercedes, in trance, stands and speaks: "Good evening! I am glad to be here once more! I have gathered a good band of guides to work and listen. They will guard your instruments. Your vibrations are good. I was present at the last meeting (Ewan sitting, February 13, 1935). I have come into contact with Raymond Lodge and Walter. We were discussing your meetings. We see many points of favor; but we are afraid for the outcome of the control. Just be on guard for his methods (that is, the methods of the Ewan-control calling himself Schrenck-Notzing.
[Comment: Doyle and Walter give the impression that they are not anxious that Schrenck should make use of hypnosis to induce trance. Schrenck, through Ewan, had claimed that he no longer favored this method; but seemed to be making use of hypnotic passes and strokes to some extent when placing Mercedes in trance that evening. L. H.]
"His methods are his own. Just be on your guard to watch the methods he uses to induce trance in his subject. She is very sensitive and her physical condition must be protected. I suppose Walter will come to talk; but I am being prompted by him.
"It has been given to some of us here to see a little into the future; and I want to say that your experiments will be successful, provided your sitters are in harmony, and give themselves free from grudge. It is a difficult task that your new control ( Schrenck-Notzing/ Ewan) has set himself. The mediums must not be used to any great extent at one sitting. There is a wonderful foundation in store already. Do not lessen your efforts for the direct voice. I am coming also to talk to you, and will use it to give a message of importance. It will be used in cross-correspondence. You will hear more. If you look up your records, you will, I think, find that we foretold that you would have this quick message. Doyle. Goodnight!"
Spurgeon: "All is well, my friends! You have been true to me. You have been faithful. I will not forget! Look toward Calvary's Hill! (With great earnestness and feeling). Many weary journeys must you make before you reach your goal. When friends have turned their backs on you, you have felt like the Man of Sorrows! But lift thine eyes to the hills whence comes all our aid! Though thou walkest in the valley, keep thine eyes toward the hills. Follow the light that has been shown to you! Follow these faithful controls! They will lead you into the paths of light; and some glorious morning you will awaken and find mankind has awakened to the truth of the Resurrection! ..."
T. G. H. asks Spurgeon who is with him. Spurgeon says Stead is with him, and he goes on:
"You are all children of the Father. He wishes his children to have the best, the very best! I feel here an atmosphere of peace and holiness, and these are things I revel in! Good night!"
Mercedes leaves the cabinet and Florence takes her place.
Walter/Mercedes: "Good evening! You are all dead from the head down! I don't know why it is, but some nights you seem to be tired, - not interested. Your room is too warm. I would like it if the other mediums (Florence, Norman and Gordon) would give themselves up to their controls. The work I am doing just now can stand a little interference. The work I was doing with Mercedes (cataleptic trance at previous sittings) was in conjunction with the Wednesday work (the Ewan sitting). Next time we meet I will start putting you all into the cabinet (one by one). It will be a good experience. I want to say that the voice-box is completed; but we are not using it so extensively ... Lucy has been speaking to Hamish (J. A. Hamilton). She likes him very much ..."
Stevenson voice now heard near Norman. (It seems to be a new voice issuing from Norman's throat.) He speaks in a broad Scottish accent. The voice teases and puns. Walter, through Mercedes, talks about Schrenck-Notzing, the new Ewan control. Says that on their side they called him Mephistopheles because of his pointed beard. Walter says "Call him 'fleas', for short!"
The voice puns: "Shrink from Notzing but Fleas!" Sitters have a hearty laugh. The voice is notable not only for its Scottish accent but for smoothness and quickness of perception, and the repartee it shows. It is loud enough to be heard by sitters on the other side of the room.
Stevenson says: "Good bye." Walter/Mercedes asks us to close. He says they are all delighted with the success of the evening. He gives final instructions: all who sit at the Wednesday séance to be lightly clothed. The room must be cool. Same order of seating: cabinet empty; then Sun Yan; Louise; T. G. H.; Mercedes; Norman; Ada; L. Thompson; Mrs. Muir; Ewan; L. H.
Walter also asks about the Schrenck method of inducing trance. We assure him that Schrenck would be advised on this point. Walter is satisfied and says, this done, they, the workers (Stead, Doyle, and the others) would give him (Schrenck) their full cooperation. T. G. H. is to take full charge of Ewan and the experiment on our side. We are to have confidence in our new worker; he was a man of wide knowledge and experience in the matter of materialization work.
Walter says: "Goodnight! So long!"
[Reference to the work of the investigation of the late Baron von Schrenck-Notzing, medical doctor of Munich, who used hypnotic trance to induce mediumistic trance in his study of the faculties of the medium, Eva C. For full account, see his monumental book PHENONEMA OF MATERIALIZATION translated by E. E. Fournier d'Albe, D. Sc.) Pub. By Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. London, 1920.]
February 17, 1935.
Norman-Mercedes sitting. Full group - Norman;
Mercedes; Mr. Reed; Lou Campbell; T. G. H.; Ada Turner; Mr. Bodie; Daisy Muir; Mr. Snyder; Mrs. McCreary; Fidelis; L. H..
Voice excellent. R. L. Stevenson speaks in broad Scottish accent. Ewan sitting arrangements to be as before. Sitters to dress lightly; room to be cool.
Doyle/Mercedes says Cross-correspondence work was foretold. L. H. finds note made November 1, 1934, with a forecast through Norman.
February 18, 1935. Monday
[Letter from Mrs. Hamilton to Margaret:]
Mentions book cases from Uncle Jim and how they are arranged - and what books are where.
February 19, 1935. Tuesday
"... Daddy is much better today and back at work - a good rest and sleep has largely restored him to normal - how wonderful is sleep as good old Will Shakespeare well knew. Glen is also out again - returned to the hospital at noon and going on duty tomorrow morning.
"... He drove me uptown at 1:00pm and I met Mrs. Bach at Eaton's and she took me to lunch in the Coffee Spanish place on the seventh floor. We had a nice chat - mostly about our most beloved and wonderful off-spring, of course - she is so happy in your happiness and thrilled that you have got a new refrigerator. (Mom on the hows and whys, etc.) Dorothy was to have been one of the party but was playing at the Junior Club this afternoon (one of her old Bach numbers) so thought she could not take the time.
"... I sometimes think that we will never again get the lovely R. L. Stevenson things through that came when "we three" were alone on the job; Grace is our new note-taker and is very careful, but I fear me she has not the sensitive imagination and feeling necessary to stimulate Robert to his best, as you seemed to do.
"... Then Daddy is always along and somehow he is so prosaic - I think they find it hard to let themselves go. How very sensitive are these powers to that thing we call "conditions"; it's all a mystery and yet we see an analogy to it every day in our own sensitiveness and reactions to those we meet - we are actually a hundred different persons bound up within one body - according to those about us. All this seems to be intensified a hundred fold when we are released from the enshrouding and confining physical part of us. Only when I am alone with Jack does the real R. L. Stevenson seem to get through. I wish it were not so, but there is no use blinking our eyes to the fact that somehow this unseen personality we call R. L. Stevenson responds best (at least so we think) to you and I. Apparently we are very much alike in our innermost selves, and hence the help across the gulf.
"... So Saturday is your birthday. Many, many happy returns, old dear - tell Jimmy to give you 26 smacks (kisses, I mean, not whacks on your back) for me - one for each year of happiness you have bestowed on a fond and foolish mother to whom you are the proverbial "apple of the eye" and all that. I read the other day a most interesting little booklet - memoirs of some Madam in France in which she writes to her daughter separated by marriage from her, as you are from me. She said all that is in my mind and heart in very lovely language. Some day I shall send it to you and you in turn can keep it and send it to your daughter about a quarter of a century hence. ( Don't smile - the day will surely come.)
"... I'm sending you a copy of the last sitting with the big group - I feel that at last real work is beginning, and I feel also that our dearly loved Robert is about to transfer his best efforts to coming through the "voice". So when next you are home - who knows - you may be able to speak almost directly to him ..."
February 20, 1935.
Ewan sitting. Same group as on February 13, 1935.
Schrenck appears and places Mercedes in cataleptic trance. Cataleptic condition lasts for nearly one hour. Both mediums very exhausted.
February 27, 1935.
Mercedes-Norman, same group, except Mr. Snyder and Mr. Reed absent; L. H., T. G. H., Ewan, L. Campbell, Mr. Reed, Mr. Thompson, Mercedes.
Voice is good. Raymond and R. L. Stevenson speak. Raymond says R. L. Stevenson knew what he was talking about. Walter makes an arrangement for a small Ewan sitting.
T. G. H. to take notes; Lou Campbell in cabinet.
Walter arranges a new division of sitters:
Wednesday: Ewan, Mercedes, L. H., Mr. Reed, Lou Campbell, Bodie, Norman sitting (no Mercedes) as usual on Sunday.
March 3, 1935.
Norman sitting. Usual controls - Walter and "David".
Voice very faint. Controls claim to be "building." L. H. and Faith in cabinet.
March 6, 1935. Wednesday
"... I suppose the dear little wife is all alone now - how I wish you were near home and could spend your time with us. Perhaps you wish it, too. What are you going to be doing with yourself? Don't stay alone too much. If you could only find a nice "lady companion" now it would be all to the good.
"... What a snow storm - banks as high as our waist all over the back yard - T. G. has had to use the street car both yesterday and today - much to his disgust. The main roads and streets are open but not the side streets yet. Mails have been held up even. Today is nice, though, and I think the worst is over. It will in the end be all to the good for the country was badly denuded of snow and very dry - already dust storms had been blowing which means none, or at best poor, crops again in some districts.
"... Jim was so pleased to get a letter addressed all to himself - Glen will also be looking for one. Glen is already looking better for his operation - skin clearer and eyes brighter but quite thin - the interns are all again working far too hard. Glen has charge of something like 150 patients - so he is called out of bed at all hours. I'll be glad when this stage of his training is finished.
"... Well, the apparatus has come - Fairbanks Morse phoned Daddy yesterday, but the heavy snow makes it impossible to go and get it today. We are all eagerly looking forward to using it - and is Daddy pleased with his son-in-law? I hear him quietly boasting to others about his scientific and mechanical cleverness. It will now make it possible, when the voices grow better, to sit in another part of the house and tune in on "the Other World"- rather amazing, even to us.
"... We have just got word from England and with it a full account of Mrs. Cook's sitting over there held at the same time as ours here - it's simply amazing how successful it has been - exceeded our greatest expectation - 55 points, and most of them partly or wholly evidential! I have the correspondences now nearly ready and will have a copy for you. You will have to put on your best thinking cap and give it all the attention of your analytical mind; for it is complex, complicated and ingenious - as real cross evidences backed by Myers always is ... this is not for the popular consumption but for students of psychical research. I do want you from now on as much as lieth in you, to read more and more along strictly critical and scientific lines in this subject: for I feel that at present I've not a single soul-except Dad, to help me in this regard - they are all too keen about the personal aspect in a way - we all love and need that assurance, but first we must be on solid ground and we must know what the best minds consider evidence and what they consider weaknesses and failure. So I shall send along our extra copies of "Human Personality" and Schrenck's - also some others of the other type - but good of their kind - for my darling daughter to get busy and become the very best little lady psychical researcher in the world. How's that for a fond mother's ambition? Incidentally, the husband will, I know, be able to supply the practical side of things in a way that makes the future, so far as the Bachs are concerned, splendid and safe.
"... Was I and was Daddy and Jim all thrilled to hear your voice and Jimmy's. It brought you so much nearer - you seemed to be just down town. I wish I had money to do it oftener. But any time that you are a wee bit homesick just phone and reverse the charges - I know Dad won't mind - try it some time.
"... Our Robert said you had called him a short time ago - at any rate he said he visited you because your were a little bit homesick - I don't suppose you felt him. Has Jack written to you yet? He said he was - to tell you that he is going east toward the end of this month - Montreal and Toronto - and he will try to visit you and Jim for a day ... If Jimmy's away you'll have to make arrangements to get a chaperon in - but I know he does want to visit you in your new home.
"...Poor Bruce Chown is down with a very extensive attack of hives - they were at Georgie Gammles to a party - in a small room with sixteen others - and all smoking and the place so hot you could as Gladys says, 'Cut it with a knife'. Anyhow, it all came out the next day - the hives, I mean, and Bruce has been quite ill with them.
"... Many thanks to you and Jim. By the way, I know that Dad will repay Jim what he paid out on the apparatus - and will be glad to do so - Jim's work alone is worth many times that. Just as soon as some of our outstanding obligations are met it will be along and help the wee wife over any difficult places that may occur in making those difficult things called budget balances.
March 6, 1935.
Ewan/Mercedes. Sitting. Mercedes in cabinet. T. G. H.; Lou Campbell; Langtry Thompson; L. H.; Ewan.
Walter, Schrenck, Lucy, manifest. Also a new control said to be living. (i.e., incarnate, not deceased). IMPORTANT.
March 10, 1935.
Norman-Mercedes sitting. Mercedes; Mr. Reed; T. G. H.; Langtry Thompson; Lou Campbell; Ada Turner; Mr. Bodie; Ethel Muir; G. Snyder; T. G. H., Secretary.
Norman not well; voice very faint. R. L. Stevenson speaks and says he has been appointed interpreter for the afternoon meeting.
(See notes as recorded by J. D. Hamilton from amplifier.)
March 12, 1935.
Ewan/Mercedes sitting. Langtry Thompson; Lou Campbell; T. G. H.; Dawn; L. H.; Mercedes.
Notes taken by J. D. Hamilton on amplifier.
March 14, 1935.
Sitting for cross-correspondence. L. H.; Mercedes; Norman; T. G. H.; Lou Campbell (see report).
Doyle asks that the table be placed for writing at next sitting.
March 17, 1935.
Norman-Mercedes sitting. Full group. Mercedes; Mr. Reed; Lou Campbell; T. G. H.; Ada Turner; G. Snyder; Ethel Muir; Langtry Thompson; L. H.; Norman (Harold Turner).
Spurgeon preaches Easter sermon. Voice excellent. R. L. Stevenson speaks. Black Hawk says "Lady in England sick. There will be no sitting for cross-correspondence on the 20th.
March 20, 1935.
3 p.m. C.S.T. Cross-correspondence sitting. Mercedes; Daisy(Muir); Langtry Thompson; L. H.; T. G. H.; Dawn.
Very little evidence.
Control through Dawn warns T. G. H. he must take a rest.
Voice seems to be built up near Dawn. Norman says "Lodge" is interested.
Doubtful if there is a sitting in England. Says there is a "cloud" - a black cloud they cannot get through. (See full notes.)
March 22, 1935. Friday
[Letter from Mrs. Hamilton to Margaret:]
"... Your letter yesterday and so glad you felt better before you wrote. All you need is sleep and lots of it - deep sleep and sleeping in the morning occasionally when you are very tired. You will have to cut out some of the night parties - you are too tense a person to go on as little sleep as some others - especially seeing as you are a Hamilton. Your heart is just tired - Olive had the same trouble when she went out too much at night - you are a small body and must realize that you have not got the staying powers of some others - your big he man husband among them. Do not make the mistake I made in my early married life by thinking it was my duty to be always on deck in the morning - if you feel specially tired the night before lay out Jimmy's breakfast and have everything ready and I'm sure he will not mind once in a while letting you sleep in - it's the long unbroken sleep that does the trick. You should get your extra bed for your den soon and use it sometimes if you are needing a specially quiet sleep.
"... If you are going to help me with my colossal task you will have to save time for that, too. Presently you will be like me - cut out bridge and night-life - or at least reduce it to a negligible quantity. In view of the fact that you are your father's daughter you will always have to take a little more care of yourself - at least if you want Jimmy to have his little wife on into the sere and yellow leaf period - the Hamiltons just haven't strong glands or hearts or something, and that is all there is about it, and one has to face these things - so be firm and quit going like a man - make up a program of work and play for your two selves and stick to it. When I tell you that although Daddy is some better today (he has been in bed now since Tuesday), he is far from being a well man. Glen brought over Dr. Lennox Bell yesterday to see him - Bell thinks there is no doubt his heart is giving him some trouble and that it is absolutely imperative that he take a real rest. Dr. McKecheran is coming in an hour with the "heart" machine to test it out. After that they will confer and see what is best to be done about it. Glen is home for two weeks from the hospital to give Dad a chance to pick up again - if that is possible - Glen has about 16 calls to make today - a man with erysipelas (can't spell it) in St. Roch's; an appendix case in the general - two of them rather - a hand accident at B and R8s this morning - and heaps of others. So you see, dear, we may be at the parting of the old ways and at the beginning of a new chapter - at least for Dad. My own opinion is that he will have to be a bed patient perhaps for some weeks - even longer - hearts are marvelous to come back if you give them a chance - one can, as you know, go very low and come back and live for years. If only our book was written I would not worry, for as you know the "Other Side" to us is so real and so lovely that to go on now is something to look forward to - not to avoid. Only one must have one's work done - However, we must not worry unduly - we must be brave and leave all in the hands of those wonderful intelligences round about us who, I believe, are emissaries and co-workers under orders from the One Over-All Intelligence.
"... We had the chesterfield in front of the grate-fire last night - Glen on it, resting and smoking - Jim talking - mother listening - you in our thoughts - Glen read your letter and said - "tell her to walk and sleep and eat and she'll be OK" - so there you are. We will send a tonic, though. The assistant Superintendent at the W. G. H. was telling Glen some of his nurses who had very mild attacks of flu still were so weak that they had to be sent back to bed for two weeks to get on their pins again. Elna had another touch of it - no temperature, but all in - had to go to bed and sleep and sleep for three afternoons to feel herself again. Some Colleges in the Maritimes have been closed, Jimmy was telling me, with the flu epidemic. A lot of his friends are down with it, and everywhere the same story, so probably had a touch of the real thing.
"... Jimmy goes tonight to the Science Grad's Farewell with the lady-stick of Arts - Sally Chipman - he's wearing Jack's tux and has sent her a corsage, being as she has to speak at the dinner - she's a lovely girl - perhaps you met her - however Jimmy still has many lady friends - the safe way for some years to come.
"... You speak about the complexity of our work - it surely is; but still, when you get used to taking one thread at a time and tracing it through, you will find that it unravels fairly easily. I always ask myself these questions when I begin a report or essay on one of the teleplasms. What are the evidences establishing this event as supernormal? - and then I set to and hunt them out - examine them critically, line them up and treat them, one by one by means of the written word: what were the predictions preceding this event? How many were fulfilled? How many controls took part in these predictions and how many mediums? What about the trance state of the mediums? Can these be shown to be abnormal from the medical view-point? How many sittings did it require to build up this particular phenomenon? How was the energy apparently collected and stored? What supernormal knowledge did the controls show after the phenomenon was photographed? (Here comes in Walter's astonishingly exact forecast given a few minute after the flash had been fired) Finally, look at the mass itself - its characteristics - its morphology, its inner manifestations proving supernormality of construction and so on. The last, of course, is particularly Daddy's field. Look up some of our articles and you will see all of these things traced out in most cases. It's really writing a lot of little essays on innumerable little topics as you would do in giving a musical paper. Lots of cross-references to other researchers' work also helps to clinch matters. Oh, you'll make a great little scientist yet. If I learned not too badly with my much less equipment, what can't you do with your English and general knowledge preparation? Jim is quite determined some day to take it up, in real earnest, too. He is thinking some now of going into medicine, but will finish his B. Sc. Course first ..."
March 23, 1935.
Same five.
Both mediums in cabinet. Beulah cataleptic. Peter groans and apparently is in distress. Dawn not entranced but talks in semi-trance style. Presently Dawn becomes deeply entranced. She is heard groaning. A curious-sounding voice speaks near Beulah. She is groaning. Voice said to be issuing from a new voice-box mechanism.
[Comment: "Peter" was Mr. Withers' séance name; he did not go into trance, but developed clairvoyance, and showed various reactions of the psycho-physical type - L. H.]
Walter/Dawn: "No picture tonight. All is set up but not yet quite right. Then mediums are to prepare as before. (To Reed). How would you like to take a flash without a signal as soon as the mediums are in trance? Just one camera will do. I will be able to tell you if there is anything on it. After that get ready for the second flash. I will say "Ready? Fire!" Beulah will give the first signal."
H. Reed: "Yes, Walter, I understand. The second flash will be the important one. The first is a trial. You want to find out whether your materialization is visible?"
Walter/Dawn: "Yes; just an experiment."
Patience Worth unexpectedly manifests, with a play on words.
Voice/Beulah: "It is a sorry tale. Forgive me if I weep! It is a sorry tale! But have patience! It is worth it!"
Walter/Dawn: "Close! So long!"
March 26, 1935 - Tuesday
[Letter from Lillian Hamilton to Margaret Hamilton Bach.]
"... Daddy is still a patient in the W. G. H. but is responding nicely to his care and treatment - if we can only get him to stay long enough to make the cure a more permanent one. Glen is calling for me shortly and taking me up there. I did not see him yesterday as there was so much phoning to do - that is, I took over the phoning here at home - Elna not being able to go into all the pros and cons of the case without getting people all up in the air thinking their doctor could not be got. Glen is doing nobly - lots of 'old timers' in to the office and many of them seem quite pleased that there is another Hamilton ready to carry on the tradition. It is quite likely that Daddy will have to limit himself to office practice and give up the hard driving end of it.
"... Did I ever tell you that among Uncle Jim's effect was a nice little silver tea service? ..."
[There follows a list of items from 'Uncle Jim's' estate]
"... The spring coat - narrowed at the shoulders by Rudolf - is away to "Aggie" this morning on young Jim's back looking very smart and pleased with itself indeed. Thanks a lot - it has helped in making the family budget stretch a little farther."
Mention of H. G. Wells' health problems being almost as great as those of R. L. Stevenson.
"... His terribly frank treatment of sex problems - his sex problems - is, to say the least, rather breath-taking. His good taste has been severely criticized. Personally, it seems to me to have been quite unnecessary and must, for certain erotic types, be very harmful. He believes that he is opening up festering sores in poor humanity to the light of day and thus doing his bit toward healing these dark spots in the life of the young and the adolescent; there may be something in this - I don't know. Get it and read it and see how you feel about it.
"... Well, Darling, I must hie me away to the W. G. H. - I expect Daddy will be looking for me.
P.S. "... Our beloved Louis speaking to me in the semi-independent voice asked for the wee one that was away - said they were all very proud of you and loved you dearly. He hoped to "see" you through Mack he said."
[Handwritten after this point]
P.S. "... In Elna's eyes there is 'no' mail unless there is a letter from either her hubby or from you. She's quite lonesome to hear from you, she says. So drop her a card if a letter takes too much time. Did you get Schrenck alright?
"... It's raining here today and the snow is melting fast."
March 27, 1935.
Ewan; Mercedes; Dawn; L. H.; Langtry Thompson; Lou Campbell; J. D. Hamilton; T. G. H. ill.
Katie and John appear and make a solemn promise to carry on. They ask that the sitters do likewise. They say Mercedes may come Sunday (the next sitting) if she should wish to.
March 31, 1935.
Norman sitting. Norman; Mr. Reed; Lou Campbell; Ada Turner; Ethel Muir; L. H.; Langtry Thompson; G. Snyder.
Voice is excellent - the best yet. R. L. Stevenson jokes using an excellent Scottish accent. (Norman, in normal state, cannot give out so charming a personality.)
