1927
Aug 4 - Dec 18
David Livingstone and his little son Robert visit the dying Sebituane.
"Missionary Travels", page 129.
W. T. Stead.
Sitters return. Commendation from W. T. S.
August 5, 1927.
R. L. Stevenson.
"Treasure Island", page 92.
Vision:
"I see spotty ... I can't work with him ... his talk is twisted." (French - Flammarion.)
August 7, 1927.
R. L. Stevenson.
Going Upstairs. CGV.
August 14, 1927.
R. L. Stevenson. "Treasure Island" indicated.
David Livingstone.
Script:
"The head man of the village told me that this is where ... burnt house and child ... we build huts all around it ..."
Vision:
"I saw David Livingstone in the wilds. They were standing where there was a house that burned down. They seemed to be building huts around and I came across a little grave, a child's grade. Some peculiar toys and things were lying on the grave."
(Excellent cross-correspondence.)
Verification:
"They have many fears. A man at one of the villages we came to showed us the grave of his child, and with much apparent feeling, told us she had been burned to death in her hut. He had come with all his family and built huts around it in order to weep for her. He thought that if the grave were left unwatched, the witches would come and bewitch them by putting medicine in the body. They have a more decided belief in the continued existence of departed spirits than any of the more southerly tribes."
"Missionary Travels", page 286-7.
August 15, 1927.
R. L. Stevenson
"CGV. Working Song". "Keepsake Mill."
Script:
"Let me go to Africa. Old home, Blantyre, good old home where I did piece-work when a boy of 10 years. I had good parents - Bible - Church."
Vision:
"I got Livingstone in his old home in the Old Country. He was a young man and I went into Glasgow with him. He got on a boat ... his father was with him. A couple of ministers were with him and they were shaking hands. It looked cold and foggy."
("Missionary Travels", page 3 and 6.)
Comment:
Unable to discover whether or not David Livingstone sailed from Glasgow for Africa. (L. H.)
[ Photo of graph of trance states - undated ]
[ Photo of graph of trance states - undated ]
[ Photo of graph of trance states - undated ]
[ Photo of graph of trance states - undated ]
August 18, 1927.
R. L. S. Flint. Excellent.
Poor script, but good, subtle.
Vision of Treasure Island.
The episode of Ben Gunn and "Flint" brilliantly told by picture, action and subjective impressions.
Vision:
"I saw a few sailors ... I can hear some talk yet ... one they seemed well pleased to meet with. They were standing near a shore but I did not see any boats. There was something wanted. I got a couple of names. Who is Flint? ... I have my second scene much closer than before ... Two men are here, one with a red coat on, with a bird on his shoulder. Maybe it is a parrot. And here is a nigger ... round black face and his hair cropped to the very skin. I don't know what this is ... whether a gun or a branch of a tree!" ( E.M. passes into a semi-trance state and listens;)
Comment:
Exceedingly ingenious visual and auditory representation of the Treasure Island episode of the unarmed sailor, Ben Gunn, and his calling from the tree top "Fifteen men on a dead man's chest" to frighten the superstitious mutineers.
See "Treasure Island", chapter 32.
"I heard 'Flint' as an echo, far, far away! I don't know what picture that was."
Comment:
Re: "nigger" - Ben Gunn was very dark. "...His skin, wherever it was exposed, was burned by the sun; even his lips were black; and his fair eyes looked quite startling is so dark a face ..."
"Treasure Island", Chapter 15
Re: "Silver" and the "Echo":
"...Belay there, John!" said Merry. "Don't you cross a speeret!"
"Speeret?, Well, maybe", he said, "But there's one thing not clear to me. There was an echo. Now no man ever seen a speeret with a shadow; Well, then, what's he doing with an echo to him? I should like to know? That ain't in nature, surely."
... George Merry was greatly relieved.
"Well, that's so," he said. "You've got a head upon your shoulders, John, and no mistake! Bout ship, mates! This here crew is on a wrong tack, I do believe. And come to think of it, it was like Flint's voice, I grant you, but not just too clear ... It was liker somebody else's voice more - it was liker ..."
"By the power! Ben Gunn!" roared Silver ...
After the sitting, while having tea in the living room, E.M. still seemed preoccupied with the "Echo" vision. E.M.: "It was that man with the wooden leg who called 'Flint'. He is an ugly-looking beggar. It's no real wooden leg, it's just a peg from a tree I think." (true)
While E. M. was in the R. L. Stevenson trance, she was heard muttering "Flint!, Flint."
During the trance she rarely spoke or moved. One can say that here a very determined effort seems to have been made to get across the main ideas - the name of the terrible pirate Flint, whose name struck terror in the minds of the superstitious sailor-mutineers.
David Livingstone:
Vision:
David Livingstone attending a dying woman. A psalm is sung.
(Not verified.)
W. T. Stead:
More advice on "class" procedures.
[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]
[Stead]
"and ready to start"
[ Photo ]
[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]
"in rearranging (?) class"
[ Photo ]
[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]
"I am not going to start ?"
[ Photo ]
[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]
"with you tonight"
[ Photo ]
[Single sheet - automatic writing.]
"with welcome from your"
[ Photo ]
[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]
"friends"
[ Photo ]
[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]
"where are all your class?"
[ Photo ]
[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]
"tonight"
[ Photo ]
[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]
"it is too small a class"
[ Photo ]
[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]
"your medium"
[ Photo ]
[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]
"Stead"
[ Photo ]
August 21, 1927.
R. L. Stevenson
Script poor.
Vision suggests "Farewell to the Farm."
David Livingstone script:
"Mrs. Livingstone was so unwell that I had to leave her ... Oswald came and Mrs. Moffat ..."
Vision:
"I saw Livingstone. I saw his wife. There was something wrong with her. He left her in this village. I was drawn to the bed where she lay. I think he went away ... another lady and gentleman came along (the Moffats, her father and mother.) They seemed to have come a long way."
Verification:
"David Livingstone and his wife reached the East Coast in May, 1859. Mrs. Livingstone was so unwell he had to leave her ... Oswald and Dr. and Mrs. Moffat had come down to meet them."
"David Livingstone", by Hughes, 89.)
W. T. Stead:
Each medium has different gifts.
August 25.
R. L. Stevenson.
Excellent use of ID as in the poem "The Lamplighter", (CGV)
Script and vision:
"The Lamplighter" (CGV.)
The Lost Dog.
David Livingstone. Lost in river. Excellent.
Script:
"The overflowing river in January, 1867 - he is gone and his master made inquiries after him. He swam a way as best he could.
Vision:
"I saw Livingstone. Somebody got into the river; someone was missing. Livingstone was watching them ..."
Verification:
The 15th of January, 1867, we had to cross the Chimbe at its eastern end where it is fully a mile wide ... I neglected to give orders about the little dog, Chitone ... and he must have swam until he sank ... He shared the staring of the people with his master ... in the march he took charge of the whole party ..." "Last Journals", page 106.
W. T. Stead. Reference to sinking of the Titanic.
August 28, 1927.
R. L. Stevenson.
Script and vision poor.
The young R. L. Stevenson., his father, and lighthouse.
David Livingstone script:
Not deciphered.
Vision:
Of David Livingstone lying on a bed, old and weathered.
David Livingstone's death well depicted by a vision.
W. T. Stead.
Script illegible.
E.M. sees Stead clearly.
In September this work (Mrs. Poole's ) begins to deteriorate.
[ Photo of fingertip - Aug 30, 1927 ]
September 1, 1927.
R. L. Stevenson.
Vision:
Of a child with a boat. Not clear.
A child in church. Not placed.
Vision:
"I saw Stevenson ... but I know I was in Glasgow ... I know the streets I went up. I went to a real old church, a stone one, and the women wore tight bodices and long dresses and bonnets on the head brought well forward, and a clutter of flowers around the front of the bonnet. I saw Stevenson as a boy along with a big tall stout gentleman. I have seen him before. This old place ... black stones ... the door was away in. They were going in with their Bibles in their hands. They were going in. I could not see the door opened. I am trying to think what street that was. It is not the Church of the present. The church was long, all stone and entry in the center. It was very, very old anyway."
"I saw him in another as a little boy ... a tunic coat on, no cap. He had a boat and had it kind of flying around. After he watched it he sat down on the outside of a doorstep. I never noticed this place till I saw him sitting down. He was by himself too."
Script:
David Livingstone:
Death - Burial at the foot of a mountain - a snake ...
Refers to marriage to a Moffat. Fair.
Vision:
Suggests he did wrong in marrying when he had to live a life of exploration. Wife is seen in vision.
"I got Livingstone and I think his wife. She is as tall as he is but dark too. I don't know what they are doing ... just talking around. It seems to have been a marriage or a christening. I got her name the night. I don't mind ... either Muffet or Moffat, but I forget the first one. The people were gathering for some festival."
"David Livingstone, my man you did wrong - that was my marriage? She was born a Moffat. She had a career in ..."
Vision:
W. T. Stead does not appear.
The man with the bushy hair takes his place.
Script:
Writing is illegible. Said to be Flammarion.
Vision:
"I saw Spotty Face. He talks, but I can't understand. If he would only speak plain. I don't know what he was saying ... some baby talk. Spotty face was just talking to me. I saw Fergie. He was enjoying himself. Well pleased. Later I saw Mrs. Fergie."
September 12, 1927.
(Two sitting only - a hot night)
R. L. Stevenson.
Vision of an ill woman. Tended by a nurse.
Not placed.
Stevenson and his nurse. Poor.
Vision:
"I saw Stevenson. Too many are coming up. I saw like a woman lying in bed. It was in the house, a sort of lodge running up to a big house. She was in this place ... a real nice place. And I saw like a nurse taking her temperature, but the patient seemed to be awful cross, and the nurse was trying to work with her. She seemed like a spoiled child.
David Livingstone script:
"In the mountains ..."
Death from snakebite. Verified.
Vision:
"I saw the burial at the foot of a mountain ... a child." (See "Last Journals", page 440.)
Comment:
A child was killed by a snake during the journey to the sea with David Livingstone's body.
Vision:
"I saw Livie and a great big long snake thing ... It was up on a big hill and I don't know whether it was a man or woman or child but there was a death there. The snake was stretched out. I don't know whether it had to do with the death. I saw the burial at the foot of a big mountain ... I saw Stead ..."
[Page 140, "Last journal"]
Handwritten notes:
"We must follow Susie's troop (carrying David Livingstone's body to coast.) Through a (.......) joining to the sea. Some days afterwards as they wended their way through a rocky place, a little girl to their train, met her death in a choking way ... an enormous snake darted across the path and struck her in the thigh and the poor girl fell mortally wounded and in ten minutes she ceased to breathe."
[From story of the journey to the coast with body added to "Last Journals" p. 440. (R.W. Bliss and Co., Chicago, Ill.)]
Mrs. Poole, near normal before trance. Sees Robert Hamilton. He is placing his hand on Dr. Hamilton's head. Places his right on Mrs. Poole's head. Pats her. Seems really well pleased about something.
He looks much the same as when he passed over. Then comes a picture of an old wagon - a white or light-colored horse - then Robert Hamilton reappears looking to be quite a young man, 18 to 20. With him is a small lad, eight to ten, fair skin, pink cheeks, stoutish.
Note:
Dr. T. G. Hamilton and Dr. J. A. Hamilton just returned from Saskatoon home many years before. Robert Hamilton and W. O relative ages - 20:9.
W. T. Stead. Script illegible.
"Stead was giving me some advice or something. I wonder who that boy was who was along with Arthur. Arthur seemed quite pleased to come here. The other boy stood back."
September 15, 1927.
R. L. Stevenson.
Script unreadable.
Vision of "Treasure Island" and shipboard.
"Did you not hear the knocks back here behind me? I saw Stevenson. He was around here and I have had so much I can't get it from being muddled."
"I was on a ship. No man on it but I could hear someone and he was not content and I could hear them talking but I kept out of the way. A lot of ropes were lying on the bottom of the boat. Somebody is bothering me the night."
"R. L. Stevenson was on the shore but not on the boat. I went to shore afterwards."
"I saw R. L. Stevenson with tweed pants on, tweed coat, and another man with him about the same as himself, but taller than Stevenson. I got him in another. This man went away down and then he jumped somewhere and came down to a house. He went to the door of the house. The door was opened for him but who came to it I can't tell."
"I saw R. L. Stevenson as a little boy with three or four other children. They were standing back-to-back with each other and putting their hands up at their eyes and their faces grinning. They seemed to be playing a game. One little girl had those puffed sleeves and a sash around her waist. There are seven or eight, all about the same size - no adults."
"I got him a man with another man. In fact there were two men and they were on deck. I saw not much but rope and a form. Another man seemed better dressed. He did not seem to be a captain. I saw Stevenson. He wanted them to listen to something but he could not get them talking at all. Stevenson was a young man."
David Livingstone.
"I saw Livie all dressed up the night. He looked nice and clean. He went to a school and it was nothing but young men or lads. It was nothing wonderful. I don't know whether it was a day for inspection or examination. He went to one boy and looked at his paper. Then Livie went up to the head of the class and I left him there talking."
Script:
"I have just received a telegram - Poor mother is dead ... Lecturing at Oxford, 1858 ..."
Vision:
"Some boy he came to Livingstone and gave him a paper or envelope or something. He seemed distressed about it. I left him and landed in a place in the old country. There were a few houses and a general store. I got in to a small house over a stone and a white piece of wood at the door as if it had been scrubbed. A woman was lying there ... on a table or something, on white, and she was dead. Her hair was pretty gray. She was sixty or over and had a round face. I came back to a place like a college of some kind. I saw Livie and he seemed to be giving a lecture to a bunch of young men.
See Blaikie, page 373.
[The Blaikie book lost]
Verification:
True. See "Life of David Livingstone", by Blaikie, page 373.)
[We had so much material on David Livingstone - slowly gathered over the years for verification purposes - that some of our books have been mislaid. L.H.]
"Kitty A(Alder? W. D. F.). sees a stately lady over by Mrs. Poole.
"The woman I saw here was the woman I saw dead. I think he very near had me away to."
"Here is a tall thin woman. She is straight up from your ... she is kind of pleased ... awful thin in the face. It is Mrs. Ferguson.
W. T. Stead." Writing illegible.
Vision:
"I saw Stead. He was standing lecturing to Dr. Hamilton. He seems to know that I am the boss of the show."
"I saw Stead on the ship and a whole lot of people with him. They were doing nothing but standing. There was something wrong. A good group was standing all grouped together. Some looked anxious ... one gentlemen seemed to have a long bath robe on him. Stead was with them."
"Did you not hear the knocking here the night? I think it was Stevenson or Livingstone."
"I saw Spotty Face between Kitty and you. He was just looking at us and he was talking to me. I can't tell you what he was saying ... I can't get it."
September 18, 1927.
R. L. Stevenson.
Medium sees R. L. Stevenson as a little child playing games. Then sees Treasure Island scene. CGV references. Not clear.
Vision:
David Livingstone in school as a boy at the head of class. Probably true. Not verified.
Script:
"I was poor? ... go to school ... to speak to ... (.......) ..."
Vision:
"I saw Livie all dressed up the night. He looked nice and clean. He went to a school and it was nothing but lads. It was nothing wonderful. I don't know whether it was a day for inspection or examination. He went to one boy and looked at his paper; then he went up to the head of the class.
Verification:
Will probably be found in book by Blaikie on D. Livingstone.
W . T. Stead. Scolds sitters for being late.
September 22, 1927.
R. L. Stevenson.
Notes and script are lost.
"Treasure Island", "My Ship and I"
David Livingstone script.
"Parts of Africa good for sheep and goats" (not placed)
Vision:
"I was away in an awful rough place with Livie, on a hill. There were droves of sheep and goats too. There was another man there too. He seemed to be talking about this land. It was so hilly and rocky. The goats were awful the small ... the sheep were not so bad.
"Joseph Huston ... I never saw him before. He was old ... I was in a nice little cottage ... old thatch, but clean. In this country ... There was an old woman there with a white night cap and something else in the front. The old man was talking to the old woman in the thatch cottage. I was in with him ... just in. I heard it ... I don't remember it. Who is Grant? I got that name. He or she called Grant."
(Three sitters saw a glow at one time, Mrs. Poole, Jesse M. and Dr. Hamilton.)
"Stead was just here beside you ... he did not seem across. He was maybe at the fight too. Only his face ... he talked to me."
"I was talking to Spotty Face. He spoke to me in a language ... I don't know what he says. He must be from the foreign land. (France)
W. T. Stead.
Scolds again - he is not being obeyed.
September 23, 1927.
R. L. Stevenson.
A. Samoa home.
B. "Keepsake Mill." Not clear.
Unexpected tribute to Dr. Hamilton.
Script:
"Here work has been retained because Dr. Hamilton is the man. In years after we shall all meet in the Better Land. We shall be satisfied with Thy Likeness. We shall all meet in the Better Land ... David Livingstone."
Vision:
"Some one must have died, and he carried the wonderful news in to the center of the wilderness." (This probably refers to the death of Jesus and the carrying of the 'gospel' or 'good news' to the foreign lands - mission fields.)
"I left them and came to a beautiful bright place and it was not in this land."
"And I saw Livingstone. And he had on a blue robe, and they were on a mountain in this Other Land. I saw these men meeting, and they seemed so pleased to meet. They smiled at each other. I did see others, but I was not drawn to them. It must have been day, for it was all so bright."
September 25.
Dr. F. Benner; Dr. Rennie Swan present as observers of telekinetic phenomena.
R. L. Stevenson.
Excellent. Many clear details in the vision:
R. L. Stevenson entertaining sailors on his lawn at Vailima. Picture merges into "Keepsake Mill". Very clear.
"I saw Stevenson first. He was just watching a boat and a great bunch, nearly a hundred, were coming off or going on a boat. I know he told them there were plenty for them all."
"I had a second picture nicer than that. I was with soldiers and sailors with Stevenson. I don't know where they had come from, but they had seemed to come a long way. Two young nice looking men in uniform came to Stevenson's home. He was only a young lad. They seemed to be officers. When they got home they sat on the lawn and talked with him. He stood behind and between with a hand on each shoulder. They all three got up and came to a place where there was an old mill run by water, I think. I think it was for flour. They came looking at the water and wheel. It was a real good picture."
David Livingstone:
"Then Livingstone came. I must have been in the center of the wilderness. Someone seemed to have died and they carried the wonderful news away into this wilderness."
"I left that and came to a beautiful bright place ... not in this land, for I saw this other man and I saw Livie. They had on blue gauze from the neck down. The other man seemed to be taller and dark. Mustache and whiskers and all are dark ... dark hair. I don't know his name."
"They were on a mountain in the other land. I don't know his name. It was like clouds. I saw nothing but clearness. I saw these two men meeting. They seem to be so pleased to meet but did not shake hands. They smiled at each other. I did see others but I was not drawn to them. It was all bright. It must have been day."
Promises that we shall all meet in a Better Land. Says Dr. Hamilton is "retained" because he is the man. Very good.
Script:
"... here work has been retained Dr. Hamilton because a man ... in years after .... we shall all meet in the better land. We shall be satisfied with Thy likeness when we shall all meet in the Better Land."
W. T. Stead. Writes of his admiration for "stalwart men!" Interested in research.
(Two doctors present as observers)
"I saw Stead. He was in a home in a big library and den combined ... one side all books. The chairs were all stuffed and upholstered ... bottom and back. The sideboard was one end of the room. A decanter and some glasses were there ... quite clear. He had on a gray suit. He seemed quite pleased. He had a turndown collar ... white and black tie. He talked and seemed real well pleased."
"I saw Spotted Face ... he was just here and another man came in with him the night ... a new man. I don't get him clear. I got Spotty Face clear enough. He was talking to me but I don't know his talk. I think it must be German." ( Flammarion - French).
"I saw Stead ..."
Script:
"We like to see stalwart men interested in our work. W. T. S."
September 29.
David Livingstone:
[Gospel carried to the wilderness]
[Excellent picturization]
R. L. Stevenson:
"Block city "(CGV)
Not verified.
Vision:
"I saw Stevenson as a boy the night ... quite a nice little picture. He had a bare head and a good mop of hair. He wears kind of tunics and a belt. He had a great many blocks and he was building. Another boy came in and it seemed to be raining as he came in and I think he wanted to get Stevenson to come out but he did not manage to get him. This was in the old home. I went up that street where the old building is and I noticed the mountain on the top of the hill. The street was all in pebble stones."
"Next time I was in a ship. There were some other people coming too. I don't know where they were going but his mother was there. He was about ten years or more. There were a good many people on this boat and they seemed real well pleased at what he was doing. I don't know what it was at. I lost that picture in an abrupt way."
David Livingstone vision:
"I was away in the wilds after that. I was traveling with Livingstone himself. I traveled a long way. The ground was quite nice and then I came to a rough part and I saw some beasts like an alligator ... awful long black tails on them. I did not mind the smaller things but these big things I did not care about. That is a land of wild things."
W. T. Stead vision:
"I saw Stead. He was in his beautiful land the night. He was sitting on a glittering white hill and there were so many heads all sitting around him. He seemed to be very happy. I did not get any of the faces except his. He was standing and his face was all lit up ... brighter than any lights we have ... brighter much and prettier than the sun. There is so much nice blue in it."
"I don't remember seeing him a second time."
R. L. Stevenson.
[Single sheet - automatic writing. ]
"you have seen the scarlet trees"
[ Photo ]
Verification: "Foreign children." (CGV p. 25)
R. L. Stevenson.
[Single sheet - automatic writing.]
"you have turned that turtle over"
[ Photo ]
R. L. Stevenson.
[Single sheet - automatic writing.]
"its legs you must have"
[ Photo ]
October 2, 1927.
R. L. Stevenson:
"Foreign children" (CGV). Excellent.
David Livingstone script:
"... taking my daughter ... school? ... and bless and admonish ?"
Vision:
"I got Livie: I saw him with a very pretty young girl ... very pretty and dark ringlets ... she was in her teens. Whatever they were doing and they were parting ... in the Old Land, and he seemed as like praying and wishing something on her ..."
White men's quarrels in Africa. (Not verified)
Script:
"The Englishman takes up a quarrel of their own - the Boers (Blacks?) keep out of it: we don't need a white man to show us this ... the Boers ... it is no good."
Vision:
"... I was in Africa after that. There seemed quite a gathering of people. I saw a few white people ... these were fighting. The African people left them to fight their own battle. Livie was looking on; he just left them to it."
W. T. Stead.
Approves of interest by so many. (Many guests present.)
October 5, 1927.
[Table levitation photographed - Dr. Gordon Chown present]
R. L. Stevenson:
"The Gardener" page 60 CGV. The "Unseen Playmate".
David Livingstone:
Wind storms off desert.
Script:
"The winds blow over the desert ... seasons ... our winter precedes our rains.
Vision:
"... I got Livie next. I think I was in the land of dust: I seemed to be in fair clouds of dust. I saw some but not long. I walked through facing that storm and then I came into rain and snow. It was a wild desert place but a good few people around. I met a few of short dark people with bushy hair ..."
(See "Missionary Travels", page 108)
W. T. Stead.
Script illegible.
"... I saw Stead ..."
October 13, 1927.
Lillian Hamilton at theatre.
R. L. Stevenson script:
" ... Fifteen men on a dead man's chest."
Vision:
Sees R .L. Stevenson as a boy having a good time on shipboard, throwing (hacked up?) and shouting. Script signed with a flourish, R. L. S.
Poor writing. Illegible.
David Livingstone:
Parting in the Old Country. Not verified.
Script:
"... taking my daughter ... school? ... and bless and admonish?"
Vision:
"I got Livie: I saw him with a very pretty young girl ... very pretty and dark ringlets ... she was in her teens. Whatever they were doing and they were parting ... in the Old Land, and he seemed as like praying and wishing something on her ..."
W. T. Stead:
Writing illegible.
October 16, 1927.
Vision:
Sees R. L. Stevenson with the sailors, eating.
("Treasure Island", page 46. Cold meat pie.)
David Livingstone:
Receives a letter from home.
Script:
"Good evening, gentlemen. My good friend fortune is here. We are all in the Better Land, dear brothers. A few more years and we shall all meet again. W. T. S."
Script:
"Well, well, at last to hear the news - it has been a long time - received news of the nation(s) - I received in church - away in the heart of Africa - it has been a long time - 'Live - have patience' - all will come in good time."
Vision:
"I ... I got Livie ... away in the wilds ... I saw tents here and there. Livie was reading a letter. It was handed to him by a dark fellow ... and awful tall one. Livie was seeming well pleased to have the letter. No whites are there with him ..."
W. T. Stead script:
"We shall meet in the 'Better Land' dear brothers."
Vision:
"I got Stead ..."
October 20, 1027.
[Train wreck sitting]
R. L .Stevenson:
Not placed.
Vision:
Sees R. L. Stevenson and others praying. Not clear.
David Livingstone script:
"In the year 1858 he sailed to S ... to Zambezi ..."
Vision:
"... they seemed so far away from me the night ... I was away sailing in a boat with Livingstone and I landed among some of those black people. I got the year this was ... I got dates and all. Livie had on a light suit ... and a hat on his head and he had something on his feet."
Verification:
(See "Livingstone Lost and Found" page 292 and 293.)
(a) '... arrived at the mouth of the Zambezi in May (1858)'.
(b) Reaches Tete in September, 1858, where he meets his attendants of two years before - they greet him joyously but are impressed by his ...
October 23, 1927.
R. L. Stevenson. Vision not understood.
David Livingstone:
Mending a gun. Not placed.
Script:
"I never - I took to mending the gun with great zest - meant to go east but it rained - work so ... our self (ourselves?) And go to the east - too many tributary(?) Tribes."
Vision:
"I saw Livie busy mending guns ... he seemed to be enjoying it too. It was outside one of those Camp houses ... he was on one knee dickering there at a gun. He had some pieces lying beside him and dark men too ... he never spoke to me after the gun picture."
Vision of train wreck. E.M. describes the wreck of a grain train east of Winnipeg, 40 minutes before it actually happened. All main points were later verified. Many witnesses hear her report.
See Stead's spontaneous comments of October 30.
October 30, 1927.
R. L. Stevenson script:
Illegible.
Vision:
Clear but not understood.
David Livingstone script:
"My second visit home we visited the Duke of Argyll - it was a most delightful home to visit - friends of his old home - when he was alive."
Vision:
"I was no in S. Africa. I was in Scotland again and with Livingstone ... visiting a great big home almost like a castle. I went in through gates (they did not open) down a nice, big, long walk. It must have been some estate. I saw a lot of peacocks around. I came back out and there was a lodge and he opened it to let me out. Livie was in there visiting ... I went in along with him and left him there. He was dressed the night. He had a grip and all with him ... I got Stead ..."
(See "David Livingstone" by Blakie)
W. T. Stead.
"I was with my little friend when she was in the train wreck. It was before it happened on your side. It was well done. Enough for her for tonight. W. T .S."
November 4.
R .L. Stevenson:.
(Vision from CGV. "My Bed is a Boat".)
David Livingstone:
Crossing a deep River. Branches. Borrows canoe.
Script:
"We passed two branches before we came to the main river - a winding deep River - Hippopane(?) lent his canoe for the time - 1854(?)"
Vision:
"... I was away in rivers and canoes and all with Livingstone ... we traveled a good bit and then we came to a river and it was very, very deep. Some men gave them this canoe ... It was a wild country but more water ... I passed over so many rivers and streams and this man on the beach gave them this canoe."
I had Billy Creighton ... (Is this Dr. William Creighton?)
Home Again! Mother does not know
Dr. Hamilton:
"Why did R. L. Stevenson bring you here?
David Livingstone speaks:
"We enjoy communication with you, on our plane, as you do in yours."
W. T. Stead script:
"Good evening, friends. I was in the room ahead of you. It is great to meet so many friends who are interested. I do love to talk. (True) W. T. S."
Vision:
(E.M. sees Stead again in the Blue Land.)
November 6, 1927.
David Livingstone. Home again! Excellent.
"Good evening, friends. It is fine to see so many interested for their good. Did you find out about my train wreck? W. T. Stead."
November 13.
R. L. Stevenson:
Scripts unreadable.
Detailed the vision.
Unverified.
David Livingstone:
Oswald waiting for a message. Unverified.
Script:
"Mr. Oswald - you wait here until a man - until the messenger - comes from her and the game? A perfect? ... when coming ... 1850."
Vision:
"I was away in the wilds with Livingstone again. Well, they waited at a place for a time. It seems the gentleman ... I can't tell ... but he seemed quite contented with what they had gotten and went away contented.
W. T. Stead:
Script:
"David (Livingstone) is as determined as when he was on this earth. W. T. S. - Their mission of another time to public - the place ...."
(So true - see D. Livingstone's scripts and visions, 1925 - 1927.)
Vision:
Medium sees Stead looking pleased - pleased apparently with David's ability to "get through".
November 20.
R. L. Stevenson:
Poor script.
Good vision of Treasure Island scenes.
David Livingstone:
Lecturing to soldiers in Old Land. Speaks of Queen.
Script:
"He was aware of the terrible? tribe? He had never served under her Majesty's? government himself - he never ..."
Vision:
"I was in S. Africa with Livie and back in the Old Country. A bunch of soldiers were talking to him. He told them what he was. He stamped his foot. I saw Queen Victoria for a moment with Livie ... I saw him amongst the darkies in Africa ... plain ... lain ... Then I got in him the OC with that group of soldiers. They were lined up and one or two came up and were speaking to him and with that Queen Victoria appeared. I got (.......) for that ... I can't tell you it ..."
Verification: Probably to be found in "Blakie"
W. T. Stead:
Illegible script. Seems excited.
Vision;
" ... I got Stead - he was pleased the night ..."
November 24.
R. L. Stevenson:
"The Gardener", CGV.
David Livingstone script:
"My object in view was not to .... he took the medical education ... to help the sick."
Vision:
"I got Livie away among a good many houses. He was quite a young man and pretty fresh. A black luster coat on and a good large hat. He was preaching or lecturing to a bunch and they took a man and put him down. Livie looked at him. They were big tall black man and they seemed to think that Livie should have healed him."
Table levitation photographed.
W. T. Stead.
Illegible.
November 27, 1927.
R. L. Stevenson:
Vision not understood.
"... I saw Stevenson and Livingstone ... talking together right here in front of me ... Stevenson much better than Livingstone. Livie had on like it seemed a grey tweed; Stevenson had on his velvet coat. They were so distinct. I heard them talk but I can't tell; I knew at the time. Then I was in Africa. I saw a woman Livie had met. They must have come a long way; they had a talk and he directed them where to go."
David Livingstone:
Meeting visitors and exploring a lake. Good.
Script:
"The two travelers? Making reservation? - up the lake - to see if the lake has an outlet ..."
Vision:
"Now, I got a number there - 1871. They were away sailing on a boat. Two men ... Livie is on this boat. They are going up the water; it is a lake. It is a plain wooden boat ... very coarse ... not very well made. All are white men. The boat is square at the back ..."
[Explores Lake Nyassa, September, 1861. Two Lady missionaries - Miss Mackenzie and Mrs. Burrup with Livingstone in the "Pioneer", March, 1862. White men: Don Kirk; Charles Livingstone, one white sailor and Cast Wilson.
See p. 105, 106, 107 of "David Livingstone", by Hughes.]
W. T. Stead:
Complains of conditions being hard on their side.
".... Vermin by moving to new house."
[Photograph of table levitation.]
December 1.
R. L. Stevenson:
Mixture of "Treasure Island" andCGV.
Unclear.
David Livingstone:
Goes to a new home; gets rid of vermin. Good.
Script:
"What a pleasure it is to get out of building ... were pestered with vermin - it is a very great pleasure and comfort to get into the new house ... we smiled with happiness."
Vision:
"... I saw Livingstone in two different pictures too ... you will laugh. I saw him coming out of an old house and going to a new one. They were all scratching. They left some clothes at the doors as they went into the new house. The new one was square and higher than the old one. There was his wife and two children about five or six years old, or maybe more. I lost them when they went into the new house."
(See "David Livingstone - Last Journals" page 282.)
Vision:
" ... I saw Stead in a dining room tonight ..."
Question by Dr. Hamilton:
"Did you discover the medium, or were you brought here?"
Answer:
"I was brought by your friend Stevenson. He was a much younger man but I had better health. Poor man, he did not know what health meant, but he was happy upon ..."
"I come here because there are friendly people, good people. We have great difficulty in getting (those) with common interests. The Scotch are among the best communicators. W. T. S."
December 11.
R. L. Stevenson:
Suggests scenes from "Treasure Island."
David Livingstone:
Drinking scenes. Vision well matched.
Script:
"... he was filled? up to his head ..."
Vision:
"... I got a horrid picture with Livie. It was in some canteen where they were drinking ... there were black men and there were white men ... They were making fun of someone ... joshing him a lot. I seemed to get away from there. I got mixed up. I was in South Africa and I was in a home town. The first was a drinking canteen scene, and the second of home town where they were jesting and boozing. I seemed to get the two almost at once."
W. T. Stead.
Illegible script.
Question by Dr. Hamilton:
"What would be your message to the world?"
David Livingstone:
"My message to the world? I could not deliver it ... you could do it yourself? It is hard to wake them up in time ..."
[ Photo of non-contact table levitation ]
December 15.
David Livingstone longs for news of home and of the world.
"Give me news of the home people, my people!"
Vision excellent.
David holds his own to the last.
Script:
"Do tell me the news - I have waited long - tell me the news of the world - I have waited long - I have waited for letters for years - Patience! Give me news of the home people - of the people - my people!"
Question by Dr. Hamilton:
"Will you tell us, David, something about the place you are in and anything else you can put through?"
"I am on the third plane; everything is beautiful on this side. But I - my work in the world - it was too long - good but no power(?) - Forgotten in darkness they have souls as well as the whites."
Vision:
"... I got a peculiar one (vision) with Livie the night. I think I was standing in two countries at once. Well, I know I was on the Other Side with him, and I know I was in the Old Country with him. Well, it seemed to be some other one that he wanted to get something off: and this man took out letters from his pocket and gave them to him. Livie is in civilian clothes. He is old. I think that he is coming back home like. You see I get him on the face of a hill and the sea and all and then I get him on the Other Side. It was like two pictures gathered together. Livie had a rug all covered with signs or tags ... the different places he had been at ..."
Stead's message on December, 1927:
Script:
"Go on with your good work. You'll do good work for your fellow-man. W. T. S."
"Spotty (Flammarion) was beside you here. Stead didn't come through."
Stevenson, Livingstone, and Stead continued with E.M. until her retirement in 1933. New work began with Mary Marshall and Elizabeth M. in January, 1928.
It was evident that Stevenson, Livingstone and Stead were simply holding the door. Their influence gradually merged with that of Walter and Stead, and the other directors, in producing visible materialization phenomena - the teleplasms, which were to reveal likenesses of those known to have died many years before.
It was evident that all had been planned from the very beginning.
December 18, 1927.
"Go on with your good work. You do good work for your fellow-men. W. T. Stead."
Like his co-communicator, the David Livingstone entity regarded himself as a human personality who had survived death, and this fact he held to be of value to mankind generally.
