1927 - Apr 24 - Aug 4

1927

Apr 24 - Aug 4


April 24, 1927.        

Reference To Master of Ballantrae.  Indefinite.

Mrs. Poole in deep trance (.....) in front of her.  He draws near - she writes and sinks into trance.  When she recovers, says she has seen a stone house.  Apple trees - stone fences.

David Livingstone:

Script: 

"We crossed the river - village on the bank - and joined the messenger Thakatwala".

Vision: 
"I had a dandy picture with Livie the night!.  I saw the prettiest village ... a good many thatched round houses.  Livingstone was lecturing as usual."

Verification: 

"As we were crossing the river we were joined by a messenger from Katine called Shakatwala."  ("Missionary Travels", page 273.)

Dr. Hamilton:

"Livingstone, have you a message for the church?"

David Livingstone: 

"God's House should be well supplied ... I have been in both ... the good auld Kirk ... My Zambezi River ... different kind of fish 102 species."

Comment: 

[Note that David Livingstone's mind springs back to African memories as if he too, on his side, were in a semi-hypnotic state; suggests that he had come with  certain memories uppermost.]

Vision: 

"I saw Stead, but not in this land.  He was in white, as if coming out of a cloud.  It was a bluish white light."

Script: 

"Your classroom is too small.  But good work for your fellow men.  W. T.  S."

Dr. Hamilton: 

"Have you a message for the church?"

W. T. Stead script: 

"It should be all one.  It is all one here - God's own house.  My advice: do your bit as they have to do in the war.  W. T.  S."

[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"Your classroom is too small." 


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"why you should get a" 


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"larger classroom."


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"you get along good"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"work for your"


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[single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"fellow men"


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[single sheet - automatic writing.]

" W. T. S."


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"what church do you belong"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. .]

"I have never been"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing.]

"with your friend"


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Question from Dr. Hamilton to Stead.:    

"Shall I write to your daughter?"

"to my girl?"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

 "you may do so"


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April 27, 1927.  Lillian and Dr. Hamilton, E.M., and W. B. Cooper only in group.  No one else present.

R. L. Stevenson.  

        "Knights from out the unshielded heart, 
        forever forward!
         Forth from the prudent turret!
         Fall, yet rise again!"

("Our Lady of the Snows", "Underwoods", XXIII)

Script: 

"Knight from out the unshielded heart - Forever forward - Forth from the prudent tunnel - Fall to rise again."

Vision:  

R. L. Stevenson seen talking to a friend. (Special for W. B. Cooper.)

Verification: "Underwoods", page 121.
Script: 

"You have a fine river here; watch it rise, perpendicular every year about this time - beautiful!"  (Referring to the Red River which flows a few blocks west of  Hamilton House.)

Vision: 

"I saw Livingstone standing on the shore talking to a white man.  I saw some blacks a piece off."   A fine river. (Zambesi?)

Verification: 

"Mr. Oswald said he had never seen such a fine river, even in India.  At the period of its annual inundation it rises fully 20 feet in perpendicular height."  ("Missionary Travels", page 18.)

Dr. Hamilton:

"Have you seen Christ?"

Script: 

"Yes.  When I entered a certain sphere.  You have to remain in the same sphere until your reformation is completed.  W. T. S."
        
Mr. Cooper: 

"I am sorry I am leaving this class.  I am going to Regina and will form a class there when a suitable medium can be obtained - will you help us?"

Stead answers: (speaks to W. B. Cooper)

"Yes"


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W. T. Stead.  Instructions
        
[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"you must get"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"them all serious" 


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[Single sheet - automatic writing.]

"and (k)now what"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing.]

"is expected"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

 "of them"


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Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"don't get any"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing.]

"fool some (.....)"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing.]

"there is one"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"here but"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"not often"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing.]

"good evening class you are"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"for me"


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Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"with strangers not"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing.]

"fair for me or you(r)"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"medium"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"you should have"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"in your"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"class room"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"when you have"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"strangers"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"and tell them"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"we are fresh"


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[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"to have (..............)"


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April 28, 1927.        

R. L. Stevenson script: 

"A thousand gallop, alight with our steed on the lawn in time for tea by the gate." 

("A Child's Garden of Verse?"  A new idea?  Not yet found.)

Vision:

"I saw Stevenson as a young boy with a long blouse and a big hat.  He was out on the lawn having tea.  Some girls were there and another boy ... three or four girls and two boys.  He was one of them."

David Livingstone. 
Script: 

"... birds on the Zambezi River, and full vegetation." 

("Missionary Travels", page 209.)


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[ Photo - 1927 - Apr 29 ]


May 1, 1927.        

9:09 p.m. Sitting began

9:15 p.m..  Flashed.

9:20 p.m..  Light visible between Dr. Hamilton and Mrs. Poole

                Deep trance

9:21 p.m.         writing

9:22 p.m.        finished

9:23 p.m.        second trance.

9:24 p.m.        writing

9:25 p.m.        stop writing

9:30 p.m.        the third trance - writing

         [Mr. and Mrs. Irvine]

9:36 p.m.        third trance over - medium a wake

9:44 p.m.        singing

9:45 p.m.        deep trance

9:46 p.m.        writing

9:48 p.m.        finished writing

Q.        "Are all your communicators on the same sphere?"

Q.        "What sphere is it?"

        Medium writing - still deep trance.

9:52 p.m.        awakening

9:53 p.m.        awake

R. L. Stevenson. 

Script A:      

"Three in a basket, Three afloat in the meadow,
On the swing - like the waves on the sea."

Vision: 
"I saw three children in a wicker basket, like a clothes basket on the lawn.  There were two girls and one boy in this basket.  I could see the butter cups quite distinct.  I tried to get the boy ... I could not place him."

Verification:  (CGV. Page 7)

"Pirate Story"

Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing,
Three of us abroad in the basket on the sea.
Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring, 
And waves are on the meadow like the waves there are at sea."

B. Script: 

"Doctors, let me speak to the Captain and the Squire.  I hid in the apple barrel ... names. ("Treasure Island", page 88.)

Vision: 

"And then I was on board a ship.  I saw one hiding behind a post.  I could see him looking past.  I saw a sailor.  I did not see a soul I knew.  The one behind the post was hiding on them."

Verification: 

Jim Hawkins, after he has overheard Silver planning a meeting, goes from his apple barrel hiding: "I broke out immediately: Doctor, let me speak.  Get the Captain and the Squire down to the cabin.  I have terrible news!" ("Treasure Island", page 88.)

After the R. L. Stevenson script, Dr. Hamilton asks: "How did you find us?"

R. L. Stevenson: 

"I have been around your little medium for years.  We did find her.  Thanks, R. L. Stevenson."

David Livingstone script:

"When these chiefs arrived the woman called Great chief Great Lord."  

Vision: 

"I saw a great many women and two or three chiefs.  I saw David Livingstone.  He seemed quite at home with these chiefs."

Verification:

 "When we arrived at my village the women all turned out to meet their chief ... Great Lion!  Great Chief!  Sleep, my lord!, etc...  Skeletu receives all with becoming indifference ..." ("Missionary Travels", page 179.)

Vision:

"I saw Stead and I was drowning along with him.  I saw him helping some overboard.  Was with him with his arms ... around others.  They weren't on top.  There was such a crowd ... they were running back and forward.

"He was down on his knees with his hand up ... a tall man ... with roundhead never saw before ... dark man I saw before."

"I saw seagulls making noise - neither daylight nor dark."

"I was down underwater ... was in the water ... and saw Stead in water.  He had smokers' coat ... dark lustre ... sheen to it."  

"It was a horrid picture and a roof over me ... seemed to be decks over that place ... all working with hands and helping one another ... no lights ... at first but later he went ... he didn't fall off ... with the boat ... he was struggling in water ... he put up his hand twice and repeated something.  Quite a few close by him."

[Later there was a table levitation]

End of sitting.


May 5, 1927.

(Note: Mrs. Mary Marshall was present, as a guest.  Strong perfume filled the room.  She went into trance and spoke in Parsee (a Hindu dialect) to W.B. Cooper, who grew up in India.  Mrs. Marshall from Glasgow.)

R. L. Stevenson.  

Script illegible.

Dr. Hamilton:  "R. L. Stevenson, tell us about your sphere."

R. L. Stevenson script: 

"We count number 7 spheres.  I am 33 years here."  Doctor Livesey"

E.M. sees  other world.

Vision: 

R. L. Stevenson seen in a glen, a man, a doctor, taking his pulse. (R. L. Stevenson is here playing the part of one of the mutineers in "Treasure Island.")

Script: 

"Through the night our Savior leads us ... we reached the country of Shinte; we formed a bridge; no difficulty."

Vision: 

"I saw a nice picture with Livie.  All around beautiful trees and they are building a bridge over the water." (Not yet placed.)

W. T. Stead.  Promises a second medium.  Gives advice and encouragement.

"Have patience.  You will have a good medium.  If you would keep  steady the class and keep trying."


May 6, 1927.

Script:

"My mother did not know me on my first visit to Hamilton - I walked a ... to Dr. Loudon to thank him for his kindness to my mother.  It is fine to be home again and to see my mother.  Home again!  Home!"

Vision:

"... I traveled a bit in that train too ... then I got to a village and to where my friend was ... Livingstone ... and there was a little house there and a woman a good age meeting Livie.  She met him at the door.  She stood and gazed at him and then he spoke to her and then they were in each other's arms.  He was 40 or less.  Then he left there and walked on and we came to a town and he met with a gentleman ... a doctor or a minister and was having a good time there meeting them.  They seemed pleased to meet.  Livie had on native clothes for Scotland ... tweed ..."

See "David Livingstone" by Blakie - page 359.

[Handwritten note "excellent use of imagery"]

[R. L. Stevenson and W. T.  Stead excited by unusual sitting conditions - David Livingstone unmoved.]


May 8, 1927.

Script A.  

"I thank you, George, replied the sea cook.  He has it rule by heart.  I am pleased to see." 

("Treasure Island", page 208, the Black Spot.)

Script B.        

Reference to Silver murdering Alan.  

Vision not clear:

R. L. Stevenson in a boat - a death - a graveyard.  Stevenson about 20.

David Livingstone.

Poor script and vision.  Deals with "vipers"

Snakes (nest of vipers).  (Not verified.)

W. T. Stead.  

Script: 

Instructions and suggestions. 

"You have lost a good helper. (W. B. C. out of Winnipeg).  But I am going to try to use her (Mary Marshall ) more.  I am trying her out.  Stay in longer.  Try me yet.  I can do better.  W. T.  S."

Dr. Hamilton: 

"Do you come down from your sphere when you speak and write to us?"

Script: 

"The power of your medium is agreeable to us.  We can speak through to your medium from our sphere."

Hints that he  speaks to the medium from his own sphere. Important idea.


May 12, 1927.        

Script: 

"The strongest people - trees in fairest wood are these - if I were tall."  I strike the Jolly Roger, this nearly tossed me into the sea.  I crawled out and lost no time."

Vision: 

"I saw Stevenson sitting in a tree, a boy, 10 or 12 ... he had on a blouse coat.  His head was bare.  Bushes all our round."

"Next time I got him in a boat. He struck at someone he was displeased at.  I saw him striking the man.  He disappeared after the striking and then he appeared crawling out from under the boat and he went away.  He was in his teens." 

("Treasure Island", page 122. "I strike the Jolly Roger.)

David Livingstone at Cape Town.

Script: 

"I visited the scene for the first time in 11 years - civilization; Cape Town!"
"I saw Livie in a city. I left him there."

W. T. Stead: 

"I saw Stead flying around ... so many circles, some he took in some he passed."

"Go on with your good work.  Your medium is strong ... when the power is exhausted from your medium I can't come to the medium.  Your friend  W. T. S."


May 15, 1927.        

R. L. Stevenson.  Beginning of the shore adventure in "Treasure
Island."

Script: 

"How I began my shore adventures.  The appearance of the Island.  Got up and came on deck." 

("Treasure Island", page 92, chapter XIII)

Vision: 

"I was near a shore in a boat.  Stevenson was a young man.  They packed up quite a lot of things when they went on the boat.  He went down in the cabin and then up on deck.  I have missed something there.  R. L. Stevenson seemed well pleased.  I saw gravel and sand and woods on the shore and tall trees.  I saw it was the sea." (Compare with "Treasure Island", chapter XIII)

D. Livingstone.  Death of Sebituane.

Script: 

"Why do you fear death - Sebituone will never die." 

("Missionary Travels", page 77.)

"I was among the dead with Livie the night.  He was preaching to them over this death to a few blacks around.  The dead man was brought outside and women and all were brought around."

Verification: 

"Come here", said Sebituane, "and see if I am any longer a man; I am done."  I ventured to assent, and added a single sentence regarding hope after death. "Why do you speak of death?",  said one of a relay of fresh doctors. "Sebituane will never die."  

If I had persisted, the impression would have been produced that by speaking about it I wished him to die ... The burial of Bechuana chiefs takes place in his cattle pen ... He was the best native chief I ever met."  ("Missionary Travels", page 77-8.)

W. T. Stead vision:

"I saw Stead in his beautiful home Over There."

Stead is here and doing something on the table. I don't seem wide enough awake to take it all in."

Writes re a new communicator. E.M. reports  that she sees a man with bushy hair and eyebrows,  badly pock-marked.  His name is given, but no one  recognizes him. 

(Later learned it is Flammarion.) 

Note: the first appearance of  Camille Flammarion.

W. T. Stead script: 

"You will learn to like him.  He is quick and very pleasant.  He is very old.  His language you would not understand.  It will be hard to write.  A change.  W. T.  S."


May 19, 1927.        

R. L. Stevenson.

"Going to bed by day."  (CGV.)

Also, "At the Seaside." (CGV)

Script:

"It is not nice to go to bed in day when all of the sky is clear and blue"

Vision: 

"I had two dandy pictures of  R. L. Stevenson the night.  I saw him sitting on his bed pulling his stockings off.  There was a patchwork quilt on the bed.  I saw his tunic and belt thrown over a chair.  He was six or seven."

"Another picture was just as cute.  He was paddling in shallow water in his bare feet.  Then he put his foot down and he seemed delighted, and he lifted it up and put it down in another place." 

(CGV. "Going to Bed by Day", and "The Sea Shore.")

David Livingstone.

In a downpour of rain.  (Not verified)

Note; a wonderful table levitation photographed - table is inverted in cabinet and levitation sustained. 

Non-contact.


May 22, 1927.        

R. L .Stevenson. 

Reference to page 216 of "Treasure Island".  E.M.  has strong hypnotic reaction.

Script: 

"I am a mutineer doctor.  Come up nearer and show your tongue."

Vision: 

R. L. Stevenson on shipboard.  He coughs. E.M. coughs and comes out of trance.

Dr. Hamilton:   "R. L. Stevenson, when did you find the medium?"

R .L .Stevenson: (script). That ... was about 11 years ago. (1916)

David Livingstone. 

Flowers in an African forest.

Script: 

"First big showers - covered the forest with bloom."

Vision: 

"I saw Livingstone.  He was among his friends.  They were in a real nice place among flowers.  He was in a forest." 

("Missionary Travels", page 308.)

W. T. Stead script: 

"A good picture if you sit a lot for pictures.  You must begin.  You are limited by time only.  Your friend will come at once.  W. T. S."

We must sit for "pictures" only.


May 26, 1927.

Three absent.  Dr. and Lillian Hamilton and Dr. J. A. Hamilton were in Toronto, at the C.M.A. Convention.        

Stead claims all is upset because Dr. and Lillian Hamilton are in Toronto.

R. L. Stevenson efforts were poor.  "Treasure Island" and CGV mixed.

A child's Garden picture, but meaning not  clear.
Script: 

"A confession of thankfulness to the Royal astronomer - thankfulness in memory."

Vision: 

"Livingstone was with a big white man and they were looking through a large telescope. Then I saw Livingstone leave the man and go back to his friends, the Negroes."

Verification: 

(From David Livingstone's  Introduction to "Missionary Travels.")

"In reading ... scientific works and books of travel were my delight ... and my dislike to dry doctrinal reading, and to reading of every word, continued for years ..."

"But having lighted on those admirable works of Thomas Dick - "The Philosophy of Religion" and "The Philosophy of the Future State", it was gratifying to find by their ideas ... that religion and science are not hostile ... but friendly to each other ..."

Comment: 

Thomas Dick was a distant relation of Lillian Hamilton.  This fact was known only to Lillian and Dr.  Hamilton.  
They were not present when David Livingstone reminded them of this fact, by bringing into the script his admiration for Dick's writings.

Reverend Thomas Dick was a clergymen noted in Scotland in the 1840s and 50s for his writings on his study of astronomy, in which he sought to show that God was revealed to man by his great works. 

(See Encyclopedia Britannica.)  

He was a great uncle of  Lillian Hamilton's grandmother, Mrs. James Drummond Forrester  (nee Janet McFarlane.)  

Reverend Thomas Dick was younger than Lillian's grandmother. 
(Her mother married twice.)

David Livingstone's confession of thankfulness to the Royal  Astronomer, Lillian Hamilton's ancestor, Reverend Thomas Dick, whose writings had a great influence on the  young David Livingstone.  

Reverend Dick was a minister and an amateur astronomer.  His writings were the means of converting the young Livingstone 
who had inwardly rebelled against the narrow  religious beliefs of the Scottish Church of his time.  Dick tried to reconcile astronomy (science) with a belief in the Creator.  For many, he succeeded. 
This relationship had been quite forgotten by Lillian Hamilton until David Livingstone reminded her.  These facts were never  known to E.M.  Dr. Hamilton and Lillian were both absent when this very startling message came through E. M.   

For Dick's influence on D. Livingstone see Livingstone's "Missionary Travels", the Introduction.


May 29, 1927.        

R. L. Stevenson.  

Poor.  Picture referring to CGV.

Script: 

"Tries to keep peace while living with the Makalolo.  ("Missionary Travels", page 174.)

Vision: 

"I seen 'Spotty Face'  (Flammarion). He is no great beauty." (Later found that his face was badly pitted from smallpox.)

Sees Stead with his circle (circle of sitters) on his side.


June 2, 1927.
        
Goodbye to the Child of the Garden.

R. L. Stevenson.

Script: 

"He does not hear; He will not look: He has grown up and gone away - a child in the air ..."

Vision: 

"I got R. L. Stevenson in an awful nice little picture of him the night.  He had opened a gate and stood with his back to me.  There was a child.  He seemed to have a lonesomeness as if he had left somebody, or they had left him.  It looked like that.  I don't remember being around there before.  Different houses in the village were separated."    (CGV, page 71.)

David Livingstone.  Delay explained to messenger brother

Script: 

"His brother came to us ... to the village ... our delay was explained to them."

Vision: 

"I got David Livingstone next.  I got him as he went and met some men coming.  They went away to a small town.  The village dogs are awful small and thin."

Verification: 

"On attaining Mburuno's village, his brother came to meet us.  We explained the reason for our delay." 

("Missionary Travels", page 497.)

W. T. Stead writes of new communicator, Flammarion.


June 5, 1927.        

R. L. Stevenson.  Treasure Island apple barrel incident.  

Script: 

"I will tell you what I think of the ... I could tell ..."         

("Treasure Island", page 78.)

Vision: 

"I got two of Stevenson.  I got one man on a ship, but he was standing in a barrel as he had been hiding; and two or three men on his right side.  Whether they was spying on him, or he was spying on them I couldn't right tell.  They were kind of hiding.  These men had long coats and blue and three cornered hats bound with yellow braid.  Their pants were light-colored, they came to the knee.  I could not see clearly because they were hiding.  At the end of the ship were ropes.  R. L. Stevenson was standing near where I was looking on."

David Livingstone. 

Script: Illegible.
                
Dr. Hamilton: "David Livingstone, why do you write so poorly?"

David Livingstone script: 

"I never was a good writer.  In my youth and early days I got little schooling ..." (True of D. Livingstone's writing in life.)

Verification: 

For poor handwriting: (From letter of  David Livingstone to his nephew, in 1863. - Published in the "Witness," Belfast, 1932:)

"I received your letter on the fourth of this month, and was very much pleased with it. Your brother's did not come so I expect it did not go to the post which he may take as a hint to improve his handwriting.  This hint I should be glad to take to myself but I fear my hand is incurably bad.  I trust that you will continue to write as fair a hand as you do now ... David Livingstone."

Notes lost.

David Livingstone.  Almost illegible writing re slavery.

W. T. Stead.  

Stead appears in blue robes to E.M., during her sleep, writes:  

"You must not blame the medium if things do not go well.  It is very hard for us here on our side.  W. T.  S."


June 16, 1927.         

Dr. and Lillian Hamilton in Toronto, attending C.M.A. convention.  T. G. H. on executive. 

[Sat for table levitation and asked for raps, which were very strong (on table)]

R. L. Stevenson script: 

"The grass grows shoulder high, the shining scythes cut it down to dry."  (CGV., page 34.)

The Hayloft (CGV) Fair. 

Script: 

Verification:                        
                                The Hayloft.

                Through all the pleasant meadow-side
The grass grew shoulder high,
Till the shining scythes went forward wide
And cut it down to dry."

Vision: 

"I got two lovely pictures of Stevenson.  He was a boy of seven or eight beside a stone fence, looking at a gateway."

"He appeared as a boy about seven or eight years old, and was talking to a man and pointed something out as though he was showing him the road to some place.  It was a nice place with a plantation on the other side of the road."

"I next saw him in a field of hay but it was not cut by a machine; he was a young boy and was playing with a young girl; he was without hat and his hair waving in the breeze ... the little girl had curls.; they were throwing arm fulls of hay at each other and having a good time.

"Then I saw a man; it was not R. L. Stevenson.  He was in a uniform with yellow trimmings.  There was a parrot on his shoulder.  He was pointing a gun at something.  I heard a nice word "Silver" spoken the night.  There was a man lying on the ground.  Whether he had shot him or not I don't know."

David Livingstone script:
Leeches.  Poor.

Vision:

"I saw Livingstone working with creeping beasts."

"I took a walk through a village and then came to water in a field. Near the water was Livingstone with a couple of blacks.  They were watching all kinds of leeches; there were all sizes, large and small, and their bodies gleamed as though they were fresh from the water.

Questions:

"Could we get ectoplasm at a future date?"

Answer: Table pounding on floor, also by loud raps at the same time as table was rocking.

We then asked in how many weeks, asking for one rap for each week, and were given 10(?) decided raps.

We then asked how many sitters we should have to place in the circle, and they replied by nine decided raps.

The power was exceedingly strong at this sitting as the undersigned sitters, who were all present, will testify.

Sitters:  Mr. and Mrs. Cummings; Mr. and Mrs. Mollineaux; Mr. and Mrs. Alder; Mrs. Poole;
[The date given at bottom of sheet is July 16, 1927.]

Stead:

"He looked cranky.  I did not get any picture of him except that he  stood in front of me. He was in a gray suit."

Ferguson:

"He also had a gray suit and a white vest with a watch guard stretched across it.  He also did not look too pleased.

W. T. Stead.  

Writing illegible. 

"I saw Stead with Spotty Face.  I don't care for him - he may be all right but I don't like him." (Flammarion.)


June 19, 1927.        

Dr. and Lillian Hamilton still in Toronto.

R. L. Stevenson.  

Writing illegible.  Script suggests "Looking  Glass River"

Script: 

Poor. 

Vision: 

Of the child  R. L. Stevenson sitting on a rock looking into the water. (CGV., "Looking Glass Ring.")

David Livingstone.  

Attending the sick.  Fair.

"I carried medicine to them ... acted themselves like sick children."

Vision: 

"I saw Livingstone giving a man some medicine.  Livingstone appeared to be displeased.  He walked over to a place where there were a large number of children packed like herrings and he started to give medicine to them."

Verification: 

"The Bechuanas will keep on the sick list as long as they feel any weakness ... we had to nurse the sick like children; and like children recovering from illnesses, the better they became the more impatient they grew.  Nothing that we did pleased them." 

("Missionary Travels", page 147.)
W. T. Stead.  Writing poor.  

E.M. sees him in the Other Land.


June 23, 1927.                

R.  L. Stevenson.  

Poor writing.  

Vision 

Suggests John Silver of  "Treasure Island."

David Livingstone.  

Old man ill.  The Bechuana love of children.

W. T. Stead script: 

"Your little friend is not at ease; she must be if you want a message.  The folks (Dr. Hamilton and Lillian.) are well and happy.  W. T. S."


July 10, 1927.          

Dr. and Lillian Hamilton now back  home.

R. L. Stevenson. 

Script: 

"No one  but cook can go."  July 10, 1927

Vision:

"Garden ... a woman in it." (the cook?)

Verification: (CGV, page 60)

Script Illegible.

Vision:

"I saw Livingstone putting something on a wheel.  They had oxen in the cart.  Then he went on and stopped and put a mark on the land where they had come to.  I saw nothing but this on the wheel."

Verification: 

"At night our tachometer showed that we had made about 25 miles from Serolit." 

("Missionary Travels", page 51.)

W. T. Stead script: 

"I am ready to start re-arranging the class.  I am not going to start with you tonight.  With welcome from your friends.  W. T.  S."


July 14, 1927.

R. L. Stevenson.  "Winter Time"  (CGV)

Script 

Poor.  

Vision good: 

"I got Stevenson.  He was only a boy, along with a little girl with a bonnet-hood all done with fur.  It was winter.  Snow was about.  They went into a cottage to get warmed; it had a big open fireplace.  There was a dresser with rows and rows of plates ... old fashioned.  These kiddies warmed themselves before the fire."

Verification" "Winter Time", CGV., page 33.)

Comment: A new picture rendering of Winter Time:

        "Close by the jolly fire I sit,
        To warm my frozen toes a bit."

Vision:
"The other picture was on a boat.  I saw a man and he had not a wooden leg, but a stick at the end of it. They wanted him (Stevenson - Jim Hawkins?)  to do something.  But oh, what a look this man with the leg gave Stevenson!  He is something in the sailor line ... a red face and a big long nose.  Stevenson wanted him to do something; he sure resented it." 

Verification:

"Treasure Island" and John Silver.

Trance report:

"I got Stevenson.  He was only a boy.  Along with a little girl with a bonnet hood on all done with fur.  It was winter.  Snow was about.  They went into a cottage to get warmed.  It had a great big open fireplace.  There was a dresser with rows and rows of plates, some jugs and some bluish old fashioned plates.  These children warmed themselves beside the fire - held out their hands to be warmed.  Stevenson was eight or nine.  The girl was that or younger."

"The other was not about.  I saw a man and he had not a wooden leg ... but a stick at the end of it ... like a round stick, just round.  They wanted him ... Stevenson to do some thing but ... oh ... what a look this man with the leg gave Stevenson.  He is something in the same or line ... red face and a big long nose."

"Stevenson wanted him to do something.  He sure resented the looks that he gave; this was on a ship."

[Handwritten note at the bottom of the sheet "Not sure that this belongs to Script (...............)]

"Livingstone was putting something into a wheel.  I have seen something ... these men he had ... and they had (...........)  in the cart."

David Livingstone.  

Wagon wheel instrument.

"What even this ... they (..........) Marked down and (.......................)"

D. Livingstone.  Land formation described.  Good.
"Where they had come to.  I saw nothing but this on the wheel.  It was long but I could see all kinds of numbers.

W. T. Stead:

"I saw Stead and he was angry.  He stood there and he did not seem pleased with us  (the experimenters).  He was just here in front of me.   He told me a lot."

Script: 

"We shall try to write plainer - if you keep a set of a superior class of people.  W. T. S."

Stead asks for absent members.  (Dr. and Lillian Hamilton still away.)

"That spotted face came there. He talked to me.  He was not angry.  He talked but I did not understand him."


[ Flammarion ]

[Answers Question :  "Do you find it more difficult with the light on?        (red light)]

"Good evening folks - I like to listen"


[ Photo  ]

[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"to Nearer My God To Thee"


[ Photo  ]

[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]        [Stead]

"you don't take good care"


[ Photo  ]

[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"of your friend - you"


[ Photo  ]

Single sheet - automatic writing.]

"must keep a steady"


[ Photo  ]

[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"class it does not"


[ Photo  ]

[Single sheet - automatic writing.]

"give your friend"


[ Photo  ]

[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"a choice" 


[ Photo  ]

[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"if we did not"


[ Photo  ]

[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"take care"


[ Photo  ]

[Single sheet - automatic writing.]

"of her on this side"


[ Photo  ]

[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

David Livingstone.

"to mend a gun"


[ Photo  ]

[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"before with (great?)  zest - no .... my... the gun ..."


[ Photo  ]

[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"a good man but too"


[ Photo ]

[Single sheet - automatic writing.]

"old now for books"


[ Photo  ]

[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"he writes"


[ Photo  ]

[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

"rubbish"


[ Photo  ]

[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]

 "W. T. S."


[ Photo  ]

Question to W. T. S. re-material on hand.


[ Photo of fingertip ]


[ Photo of fingertip - fingerprint ]


[ Photo of stong fingerprint ]


[ Photo ]


July 17, 1927.  

E.M.: 

"My pictures are no worth a snap the night!  They are too dark.  Can't tell them right.  I saw the sailor with Stevenson ... the man with the one leg ... Peg-leg.  There was a black cloud over my picture ... I saw ten with R. L. Stevenson.  I can't get the pictures ... they were so clouded. 

I saw a dandy picture of Livingstone and then it just blackened over ... I was away and saw sheep and goats.  They were little dark sheep.  I couldn't I get the picture proper."

"Stead was cross.  I don't know what he was cross for."

Comment: 

Power was fading; scripts were illegible. 

Dr. Hamilton had red light on continuously.  He turned on quite bright red light after E.M. had gone into trance, to get her reaction.

He kept it on continuously, instead of the more usual intermittently. 

From the above, one sees that E.M.'s reaction in trance sleep shows that the presence of light destroys her visual faculty.


July 19, 1927.
        
R. L. Stevenson.  

Poor script.

Treasure Island references.  Notes lost.

Vision good but not understood. 

David Livingstone.  

Poor.

W. T. Stead.  

Memories of sinking of the Titanic.  Instructions.


July 21, 1927.        

Treasure Island.  R. L. Stevenson.


July 23, 1927.        

Dr. and Lillian Hamilton still in Toronto.

R. L. Stevenson script:                

A.        Illegible.        

B.       "You playing around the garden there ... of the book ... See another child at play ..."   (CGV.)
          
C.   Treasure Island.

Vision: 

"First I got Stevenson as a man.  There was a man lying on the ground as if he had been shot, and a man who was standing over him ... he appeared to have only one leg.  He leaned on a stick to steady himself.  Stevenson was standing a little way off, but I could not tell whether he was pleased or displeased."

"In the second he was a little boy.  He was with his mother.  She was sitting in the house in a room with a bay window.  There were children playing in the garden.  They were running around and catching each other.  The house was an old stone house covered with ivy.  Only the windows were free from ivy."

Verification: 

(See "To Any Reader",  CGV., page 71.)

Crutch scene with Silver in "Treasure Island".  Note that medium did not get the idea of the crutch, only of death.

David Livingstone script: 

"You see an old man - you see my gray hair - I have no children to bring water when I am sick ..."         

Vision: 

"I was with Livingstone.  There was an elderly man who was sick.  He was laid on a bed made of tree branches."

Verification: 

"I am getting old, you see grey hairs here and there on my head, and I have no child to bring water to me when I am sick."

("Missionary Travels", page 116.)

Comment: The natives beg to be cured of sterility.

Vision: 

"Stead was there with 'Spotty Face'.  He talked to me quite a bit."


July 24, 1927.        

R. L. Stevenson.  Indication of poem "In Port".  CGV.


July 28, 1927.        
R. L. Stevenson.

Reference to "The Weir of Hermiston."

Failure.


July 31, 1927.        

R. L. Stevenson. 

"The Cow."   CGV.

Failure.


August 4, 1927.        

R. L. Stevenson. 

Poor script.

At the toll House.  

Not placed. 

Uses normal sleep as a means of communicating: on the
evening of August 11, 1927, E.M. dropped into our home for a chat.  Her three communicators appeared, and the output was quite good.  
David Livingstone.  

Death of Sebituane. Visited by David Livingstone.  Good.

However, the deep-trance scripts (then not studied) and Dr. Hamilton's verbatim reports of her vision, were accidentally destroyed.  

The next day, (August 12) I (Lillian) phoned E.M. and asked her to write for me the story of her visions.  She remembered only one, David Livingstone's  and that for the very good reason that he had appeared to her in what she took to be a dream. Here is her letter exactly as she wrote it:

"... In my own house people usually go to bed to sleep but I am off traveling when every one is fast asleep.  I did not know where I was for a time but soon realized I was in Africa and had the honor of having a partner but he did not hold my hand I traveled through bare country with him and came to a large city but no one seemed to want us there.  

So we went to a wild country where the houses and  tents were few.  We passed different animals on our way and many creeping ones.  Livie seemed to be more afraid of them although he had a gun.  I looked  at them.  

I was more scared of the people they came too close to me.  They were gathering something  amongst the long grass, some very peculiar flowers, various colors, some very nice.  I was afraid I lost my partner here, so I returned home and think of my traveling for a long time.  I prefer company the next time when I go on a long trip.  

Come along. 

Your Elizabeth M."  

Note: Elizabeth's deep-rooted sense of fun is evident again in the above.  She never took herself or her mediumship too seriously.  What she received she gave out; that was all.  She never troubled about verification.  That was our task. -  L. H.