1929
Apr 21 - Aug 17
April 21, 1929.
[Mercedes (Mrs. Susan Marshall) attends the group as a visitor for the first time. Mrs. Susan Marshall was sister-in-law to Mary Marshall.]
Very brilliant light manifestation
Instructions, bell ringing; interferences.
9:02 p.m. Meeting opened.
Usual Elizabeth manifestations.
9:10 p.m. Mary M. is impressed to bring her sister-in-law, Mrs. Marshall, into the circle instead of just as a visitor.
9:15 p.m. Elizabeth writes. Mary M. (in cabinet at back) moves violently. Mr. H. Green shows signs of being controlled; leg movements.
9:20 p.m. E.M. recovers consciousness. We wait in silence
9:24 p.m. Mary M. mumbles three words.
9:25 p.m. Five sharp knocks by Mr. H. Green.
9:25 p.m. - 9:26 p.m. Light.
9:27 p.m. We sing and Mr. Green beats time to song.
9:27 p.m.
At 9:30 p.m. Mary Marshall hears someone say, "I'll break your blooming neck."
Walter: "Good evening, friends. (He finds it hard but all right. Speaks now in direct voice). Loosen up! Get on with the damn thing!"
Conditions are not very good. Trouble is on your side. I am afraid you will have to call a halt tonight. I cannot get any connection. The little lady's illness partly to do with it. Perhaps the medium will be in better shape for next meeting. I cannot get her to stand; she is not well."
More instructions. I would like you to ask the medium to bathe her shoulders and chest with luke-warm water before she comes to the sitting. Do not dry it off. Sponge her over with a damp cloth. Ask her to have nothing to eat.
I am anxious to finish it and put it over. Try and have a sitting during the week, if possible. You are a little bit too crowded - have an arms' length between each person ... I would like this picture taken before Mr. Brown comes."
Group sings "Jingle Bells." Mary M. beats time very violently with her hands, also Mr. Green.
9:29 p.m. Light again.
9:31 p.m. Light on lap. Violent movements by Mr. Green and also medium.
9:32 p.m. Light moves - seems there are two lights. Swings like a switch light, very brilliant.
9:35 p.m. Medium breathes harder. The light is still there at 9:36 p.m. group sing.
9:37 p.m. Walter asks that Mr. Green be placed in cabinet on the right; to bring his own chair. The move is made. The light glows all the time moving is taking place. Sitters remark on this.
Walter: "Never mind it. Come on! (Meaning to sing). If you don't get a picture next time it will be a wonder; there will be enough stuff to drown the whole lot of you."
9:46 p.m. Light again. Mr. Green and Mary M. move about a great deal.
Walter: "If you don't get a picture next time you'll never get one."
Conversation. Medium speaks in a stuffy voice, "It's such a relief."
Walter: "You are a funny looking bunch; if you took a photograph, it's a hell of a bunch. If the medium eats any more she'll know about it. She is not to take nothing; if she eats I will do what you do to the hens - wring her neck. Make no change."
"The little lady will be quite all right. (E.M. not well ) She needs a rest. She'll take one by and by; the way lawyers get to heaven."
"You have a stranger in your circle. (Mrs. Marshall Jr.; Walter shakes hands with her)
[Mrs. Susan Marshall soon becomes a regular member and develops into an auxiliary medium known as "Mercedes".]
Walter: "Come again. There is an old lady beside you; wants you to do an Irish jig; she can't come in on my show. Come again; I can use you. Wash your feet next time. I am not joking; I have a reason; I did not say that to offend you; it's not because they were dirty ..."
The Chinaman interferes. I don't like them . I don't work in the same place. I don't like the yellow-faced although I know I should. I want to do it ... Life is the greatest thing in the universe ... I will use all the circle next week. Have Mrs. Poole here next Sunday. Her guides will not come without her so I can't go on."
T. G. H.: "I was wondering ...."
Walter: "That's why your head is so big."
Conversation re drinking.
Walter: "Your friend the preacher does a great work here among the drunkards on the lower planes; he does not think it would be wise to let a drunkard in here. Everyone, either man or woman who was a drunkard in the world does not desire to come back. They do not come to the astral plane; they are in a much lower plane.
"The little nipper (Jimmy) is tired; he is not very comfortable; give him a nice chair so I can feast my eyes on him. I wish I could bring him in, only the fat woman would crowd him out. I will use him and it's a great experience he will get now."
At 9:50 p.m. Walter asks for the "canned music". Bell rings. Both persons on right and left of Mary M. declare that they are holding the medium's hands. Bell rings twenty-eight times. Medium keeps time to Bell with foot. Moves about feet.
9:57 p.m. Walter is seen by Mr. H. Green.
Walter/Mary M.: "I don't want the room exposed (to light) at all. Break! Bad forces! Break immediately."
Walter speaks of survival:
"It is not a hope; it is a reality. You know; I know ... no material in our existence. We take up very little room ... We do not penetrate to each other. You will understand things later. I have no book learning; we learn to live and love. We control as a supplanting personality."
10:35 p.m. Light again appears. Mr. Green moves violently.
Walter: "Don't get excited; this is the hardest day's work he does. Brace up your cabinet or I will be knocking it all to pieces. Don't interfere until after you have taken a picture."
T. G. H. asks if the light was from Mr. Green and Walter says "No; but from Mary M. using Mr. Green. If he would let himself go he would be the best in the world. I'll use him or I'll kill him."
10:55 p.m. Sitting closes.
[Automatic writing]
"When first I felt the power within and felt my need of thee."
April 26, 1931.
Spurgeon sermon, written by the hand of Dawn (Mrs. Mary Marshall) in deep trance.
"THE LORD HATH MADE BARE HIS HOLY ARM. ALL NATIONS AND ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH SHALL SEE THE SALVATION OF OUR GOD."
"When the heroes of old prepared for fight they put on armour. When God prepared for battle He makes bare His arm. Man has to look two ways - to his own defense as well as to the offence of the enemy."
"God hath but one direction in which to cast His eye: the overthrow of His foeman, and He disregards all measures of defense and scorns all armour. He makes bare His arm in the sight of the people."
"When men would do their work in earnest too they sometimes strip themselves like that warrior of old who, when he went forth to battle with the Turks, would never fight except with the bare arm. 'Such things as these' said he, 'I need not fear; they have more reason to fear my bare arm than I their scimitar'."
"Men feel that they are prepared for work when they have cast away their cumbrous garments; and so the prophet represents the Lord as laying aside the garments of His dignity and making bare his arm that He may do His work in earnest and accomplish His purposes for the establishing of His Church."
"Now, leaving the figure, which is a very great one, I would ..."
April 28, 1929.
Walter/M. M.: "No picture tonight". Tell my medium to bathe her shoulders and chest with luke-warm water; do not dry it. Sponge her all over with a damp cloth; asked her not to eat anything." Bell rings 28 times.
May 1, 1929.
Fourth Spurgeon. First exposure. Very excellent likeness.
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Second exposure. Teleplasmic residue.
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Composite of four teleplasmic Spurgeon faces, with portraits from life for comparison.
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9:00 p.m. Meeting opens.
Usual E.M. trance writing, visions and vision-story.
9:34 p.m. "Jingle Bells"
9:37 p.m. Gramophone record.
9:40 p.m. Medium bows three times. Rises erect on feet.
9:41 p.m. "Good evening. Black Hawk. Paleface will come soon. I am just here to keep anyone from using the medium. I am not here to talk myself ... There is a little girl, mischief-maker; I must keep her back."
9:45 p.m. Control (Walter, presumably) makes persons on left and right of Mary M. feel over her face, chin, neck, and top of head. Both declare there is nothing there.
9:48 p.m.
Walter: "Good evening. (Mary M. keeps time with feet to "Golden Slippers".) Put your feet firmly on the floor. (Moving her hands in front of Mr. Cooper's head). There is an absentee." (Referring to Jimmy Hamilton.)
9:53 p.m. Walter orders all on his side back. "I'm glad I'm not a preacher. (Direct voice) are you ready? Signal one, two, three, listen carefully, you damn fool."
Indirect voice rebukes T. G. H. for not understanding his signal. Says he will give a trial signal. (taps with Mary M.'s foot on the floor). "On heavy tap of four, fire! Don't get tense. Be like yourself."
Group sing "Golden Slippers."
10:00 p.m. direct voice: "Why have you stopped singing?" Orders people back.
10:06 p.m. Flash fired.
10:07 1/2 p.m. Second flash fired.
10:10 p.m. Medium makes first movement after flashes, says, "Oh, dear."
Group sing "Jingle Bells."
Walter: "Time that old nag was shot. We got a picture, but not a good one. I am very disappointed in the picture tonight. The lady drew back. Nothing on the second flash - just a thread into the medium's mouth. She has had her supper (jokingly). You are having a visitor to your circle. What is it they say - the Boy Scouts? 'Be prepared'. I leave you to guess the picture. Two, but only a bit of one. So long."
10:20 p.m. sitting ends.
Face has look of living personality.
May 12, 1929.
Fine bristle-like 'strut' supports teleplasmic mass under left eye. Signal by Mary M. foot taps. More supernormal manipulation evidenced.
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Bell ringing and good psychic light shone for Dr. and Mrs. Edison Brown, visitors from the Crandon group in Boston.
Statement:
Walter/Dawn
Small piece of teleplasm on medium's left eye - new face in it.
(Plate shows small teleplasm on Dawn's left eye - New face in it (Size, position, type confirmed)
8:55 p.m. Meeting opens.
(Dr. Brown of Boston seated inside the circle in front of the table.)
9:18 p.m. Usual E.M. manifestations. E.M. moves to position in circle. Mary M. takes her place in center of the cabinet; is controlled as usual by J. A. Hamilton on her right hand, and W. B. Cooper on her left. T. G. H., Mr. Reed, and Mr. Whittaker open their cameras. E.M. gives her story.
9:28 p.m. Singing.
9:30 p.m. The "voice" says, "Good evening". The voice is fainter, rather difficult to hear unless close to the medium.
9:33 p.m. The bell rings and continues to ring on and off, short and long rings mixed.
9:37 p.m. The light moves about in the cabinet. It is about the height of Mary M.'s chest. It varies in brilliancy from soft glow to bright light. It disappears at 9:38 p.m..
Walter: "Good evening. What's the matter? Get away! Get out of here! Shoo! s-s-s-s."
9:40 p.m. (Mary M. claps hands, inhaling and exhaling rapidly.) "All right!"
After a moment's silence, Elizabeth says that she sees Walter's face clearly. We hear another attempt to use the teleplasmic voice.
9:45 p.m. The bell rings. Voice says it is no good.
Walter: "My, but you're solemn." (To Dr. Brown)
Dr. Brown: "I'm not solemn; I'm enjoying myself."
Walter: "That's fine. Are you surprised to see me here?"
Dr. Brown: "Well, rather."
Walter: "You must understand I am working with different clay here."
Dr. Brown: "Exactly."
Walter: "If I could get that Jackrabbit over there (H. Green), I would talk."
Dr. Brown: "We would like to know about your mother."
Walter: "Not so well. I can do nothing. I can't take her over. She'll soon go. She would have been home long ago if I'd had my way. I'm going to be there to meet her. There'll be no parting there. Your friend, the preacher, wants to sing."
Spurgeon control sings very vigorously.
9:59 p.m. Bell gives one long ring. Walter asks us to sing more heartily: "Put some more pep into it!" We do so.
The Bell goes in time to the music. Mary M.'s feet tap.
Walter: "Would the lady (Mrs. Brown) like a signal?"
Mrs. Brown: "I certainly would; give me four short and one long." These are given.
Mrs. Brown: "Give three short - as short as you can make them." These are given, very lightly.
Walter: "Is that short enough?"
Mrs. Brown: "Fine!"
The bell rings several very long rings. Walter asks for "canned" music. More bell ringing.
Lillian Hamilton: "He is having lots of fun with the bell tonight."
Walter: "Yes, I have to ring to amuse you. If I had a piano here I would play it for you." More rings.
10:10 p.m. More rings. Mary M. stands up. Mr. Green's arms going. Mary M. remains standing.
Walter: "It's damned hard for me. I would like to do more."
Walter talks earnestly about the work. Among other things says there is a great, there is a great stirring - oh, the fat will be in the fire! It'll be the red-hot mama! It will stretch from coast to coast ... ( He goes on in a joking mood). Don't speak of what you hear in this place. I do not wish my friends to think that I - I cannot discuss these matters; I cannot do it through this medium ..."
10:48 p.m. Mary M. stands up on her chair and does a kind of clog dance. Mr. Green is restless and moves his limbs. After a minute or so she sits down. H. Green moves and feet rub on the floor.
10:52 p.m. J. A. Hamilton and W. B. Cooper say that they are passing their hands, which hold the medium's hand, over face, eyes, down past nose. Both declare that they can feel nothing.
Dr. Brown: "I've explored her face thoroughly and can find nothing on it."
10:55 p.m.. Singing continues. Mary M. raises both hands in the air.
Walter: "Repeat the signal."
T. G. H.: "Three with a foot, then fire on the fourth."
Walter: "You're willing to take just anything? Be quite satisfied?"
The medium's foot three times; then on the fourth the flash is fired at 10:54 p.m.. Dr. Brown remarks that it is a very fast flash.
Walter comes back and tells what is on the plate; "It is a very small, just a small piece of ectoplasm on the medium's left eye. No picture in it." (No "face")
10:01 p.m. Light was seen in the cabinet; appears on Mary M.'s shoulder as she leans forward. Walter places Mary M.'s left shoulder so that Mrs. M. may see it. Light is very close to T. G. H.; very bright. (Uses Harry). Mary M. moves about in cabinet. Glows very brilliantly. Light comes forward close to T. G. H. and Dr. Brown. Controllers report no movement of medium's arms when light is moving. Mr. Cooper remarks that it is about two inches above his right elbow. Walter remarks that he has the field to himself.
T. G. H.: "You are expending energy in showing the light?"
Walter/Mary M.: "Yes, very much. It's worn out. We'll have to store more. I'll take it from the big stiff over there (Mr. H. Green)
Mr. H. Green: "He's got his nerve, hasn't he?"
Walter/Mary M.: "Be good, be good! Don't be naughty; Mama spank!"
May 19, 1929.
[Voice quite good]
Meeting opens in usual manner.
E.M. circle first giving trance phenomenon as usual.
9:37 p.m. Mary M. sitting begins. We sing Spurgeon's hymn.
9:43 p.m. Sing "Jingle Bells"
9:44 p.m. Walter announces his presence by ringing the bell; gives very short rings in time with the music. The bell rings as requested by E.M. and Mr. Cooper.
Mary M. is controlled by some Indian control which is very difficult to send away. Walter is furious, speaking through Mr. H. Green ... Later he says that he is going to leave us to our preacher; he has other work to do. He will be present and watching us. Says Mary M. has too many attached to her. (spirits).
Walter: "It brings very undesirable conditions - these people are around her all the time. They are not bad people, but they make it harder for me. She is very sensitive. It is not her fault. She has a great number of controls and it is very hard to eliminate them - get away! Get away! (Mary M. is much disturbed). I'll have to build a wall around her to keep them back! You'll have to get some water here and drown them ! Just put some on her; a little down the back of her neck. Water is something they are afraid of. Keep your feet on the floor; your feet must be in constant contact with the floor; all the space that there is will allow someone to get in. Once they get in they upset conditions.
Walter scolds because so many strangers visit the circle. He asks that Nipper (Jim) be brought in.
At 10:38 p.m. an ectoplasmic voice is heard very faintly but clearly by those adjacent: "Good evening. It's all right. Good news coming from Boston in four days. Somebody coming over the water to see you. (Voice is now good). The damned thing cannot get at my talking machine; I keep it inside the medium. I am busy. (Voice: at 10:42 p.m. and speaks now through Mary M.'s voice.) I wish you could have a small sitting, no one but the sitters. I am anxious to get something special. I want seven, four men and three ladies. Just for a little while ... It is not hard to understand; it is just to get cooperation of the forces; you are all little cogs fitting into one machine (?). There is nothing on your side to compare to this for (delicacy, complexity.) ... Don't let your mind travel too far ..."
10:55 p.m. Sitting closes.
May 20, 1929
Letter from Dr. Hamilton to Mr. Stanley de Brath - editor of 'Psychic Science' magazine.
Thanking for invitation to publish in the magazine - retain rights to reprint - also require lots of 200 or 500 reprints and request prices of such lots.
June 2, 1929.
9:10 p.m. Meeting opens.
E.M. trance and writing and visions.
She repeats, apparently for C. H. Spurgeon, the words of a hymn unknown to anyone present: "Where He Guideth, I will be still whate'er doeth and follow where he guideth."
9:36 p.m. E.M. is normal. T. G. H. opens the shutters of the cameras.
9:46 p.m.
All the time of Mrs. Poole's recital, some control was causing Mrs. Marshall to become very noisy; she stamped her feet and made a great deal of noise.
9:50 p.m. Mr. H. Green makes a noise with his feet. Walter comes through and says:
"Atta boy." The direct voice says a few words: "No news is good news. I hope you learned something. What do you want?"
Walter uses the direct voice to greet Miss Edith Lawrence, the note-taker. He uses medium's voice to talk about Spurgeon; something about all ministers being too long-winded; if they only knew it, the congregation were glad when they got through. He speaks to an invisible:
"You little black devil! I won't let you through!" Then, "Don't cry darling, it's only my little joke." (This was Topsy).
Mary M. sings in a very powerful voice "The Gates Ajar."
Walter asks that Mrs. Marshall's face be gently examined; T. G. H. does so. It was, he said, slightly damp. Dr. Jim found the same, but there was no ectoplasm.
Walter said better not try tonight. He would try next week to get one. "Let there be no mistake next week about the picture. I will not use the medium's mouth. I will give three raps, like this. I would like very much if the medium would refrain from eating before the sitting. If she would take nothing after her mid-day meal. If she could fast 24 hours you would get wonderful results."
He said it would be best to retire now. "Do not let anyone come through. Break the circle, then in a few seconds turn on a small light. I will hold the medium."
This was done. "So long."
June 9, 1929.
W. B. Cooper; J. A. Hamilton; Mrs. Poole; L. H.; T. G. H.; Ada E. Turner; Mary M.; H. A. V. Green; Susan Marshall.
[Walter arranges for signal: will count to three, then stamp once. Fire on stamp. Will not talk about signal. We are not to be excited. If picture fails he won't come back. He is ready; has gone over his work three times; all rests with us now. All must take off their shoes. Walter sitting is very short. Everything is ready. "Do not fuss!"]
June 11, 1929.
We miss the big picture.
J. A. Hamilton; Mrs. Poole; A. E. Turner; H. A. V. Green; Mary M.; W. B. Cooper; L. H.; Susan Marshall; T. G. H..
[We fail to get the picture. Misunderstanding over the signal. Medium stamps three times, then once with foot. We all expect her to count with voice and then stamp. Walter is in an agony of disappointment.]
E.M. trance and writing.
Then Mary M. circle.
Walter does not speak. We hear Mary M. laughing as if a joke had been repeated to her. She passes into trance. In about ten minutes she stamps three times and then once, with her foot. No one speaks. In a moment Walter shouted out:
Walter: "Now you have lost it; I gave the signal; I gave the signal."
T. G. H. explained that we understood he was going to count with the automatic voice up to three, then stamp, and on this the flash would be exploded.
Walter said: "Did not - I did not ..." He is in a paroxysm of anger. He insists that he said he would give the signal with the medium's foot; we are just as sure that he said he would count (with voice). The medium is thrown violently about, pounds the cabinet walls, finally falls to the floor, gasping out "Take them all down; take them all down." (The cords, apparently.)
She moans and gasps; it is terrible to listen to. The control appears to be beside himself with disappointment. T. G. H. makes an effort to bring Mary M. out of trance. She recovers and asks what is the matter.
The sitting is now broken up and two sitters leave the room; Miss Turner and Mrs. Susan Marshall. Mr. Green in the meantime takes on control, sobs and moans. It appears to be Walter, heartbroken. Mary M. again passes into trance and Walter again appears, this time in a much calmer mood. He discusses the misunderstanding; says that his mistake was in using the voice at the previous sitting in arranging for the signal. He thought he had made it clear that he would not speak at all. Says he cannot speak when the medium's face is covered with teleplasm. We do not know what we have missed; someone we would have known. The medium's face was entirely covered with teleplasm. Walter intimates that he will carry on.
[Note: The control is in the right mainly. See his instructions of
previous sitting. He said he would rap but did not make it clear that he would "rap" with the medium's foot. L. H.]
June 16, 1929.
H. A. V. Green; A. C. Whittaker; J. A. Hamilton; Ada E. Turner; W. E. Hobbes; Mary M.; Mrs. Poole; Susan Marshall.
[Note: T. G. H. and Lillian H. absent. Lights seen, and Bell box rung by Walter, who said through his medium that he had given these phenomena to show that he had come back.]
Summer interval.
Walter resumes work
A short sitting: light and bell
9:30 p.m. Meeting opened.
Dr. and Mrs. Hamilton absent.
In three or four minutes E.M. is in deep trance and thenceforth writing automatism manifested at various intervals till she returned to normal consciousness and moved out of the cabinet.
During this writing Ada Turner was removing sheets from writing pad as used when Mr. Green under control exclaimed "Don't break. You let someone in every time." (Evidently referring to break between Ada Turner and W. E. Hobbes.).
All sang "Golden Slippers" until Mary M. said "Solomon Levi", several times to which song all changed and continued singing for some time.
During the singing, the bell was rung several times and Walter showed his light which was particularly clear for at least two minutes, during the course of which E.M. asked him to move the light to a point over the table with which request he complied.
Singing continued after the light no longer appeared and Mary M. said "What's the matter with you tonight?" You all seem to be fussing about something."
One remarked the heat (the room was hot and the fan not running as it had been found impossible to locate the switch in the dark). When Mr. Green, stooping low towards the floor said, stuttering, "It's quite cool down here."
Shortly after Mary M. said "Good evening" to which salutation all replied "Good evening, Walter."
Ada Turner asked how conditions were, to which Walter replied tragically "Terrible! I think you had better break and go home", followed by his usual injunction about letting no one into his medium. He stood by Mary M. until the light was on and then said, "So long."
Neither Dr. nor Mrs. T. Glen Hamilton were in Winnipeg at the time this sitting was held.
July 7, 1929.
R. L. Stevenson: "Fine folk are all right when you want to rest your eyes but they are not so good when you want to rest your brains ... Philosophy is homely truths with icing on them."
T. G. H.: "Now that you have seen both sides of life what is your idea of it all?"
R. L. Stevenson: "I don't want to talk about that now. I'm feeling happy. There is plenty of time to be a long faced baboon. Bring music and the wee lad and we will give the wee slim lad a chance to help - and bring the boy with the stutter (Ewan). You know, Hamilton, you're a pretty clever lad. You have a habit of assuming modesty. I dinna like it, out with it, admit it."
T. G. H. asks R. L. Stevenson if he saw the book (Psychic Science). R. L. S. replies that he has it but it is too far away to read, and that he will get someone to pass it on to him.
R. L. Stevenson.:
"The wee lad (Jim) brought me back ... (to his childhood, said very tenderly). In a scotch family you go to bed early. It conserves the light. The wee ones are put to bed first. It is a good time to lie awake and sail the seven seas. I have stormed as many as 10 garrisons in one night. I have had pirates hanging in the gibbets by the dozen. And some hanging from the yard arms, dangling black corpses, and I cut them down for the fishes. I was a hardhearted soldier. I had a wee wife at home with the wee bairn at her breast and tears in her eyes. But I would harden my heart and say, "Die he shall in the morning." I would only forgive about one in every shipload ..."
" ... I have enjoyed a good crack with you tonight. We'll put up a wee sail and go out with the dawn and the next time we'll have a wee chat with the captain of the pirate ship ..."
July 10, 1929
T. G. H.; Mrs. Poole; H. A. V. Green; Mary M.; L. H.; Ada Turner; A. C. Whittaker; J. A. Hamilton. (Talking machine).
[Notes lost.]
Talking machine or voice box.
The "voice" seemed to be the "direct voice". The Walter voice unexpectedly said: "Fire!". The result is seen in the photographs.
After the voice ceased to speak, a sucking noise was always heard. It sounded as if the whole formation had suddenly been withdrawn into Dawn's throat. The voice always had a man-like quality, was husky, but vigorous. It had difficulty in pronouncing the sibilant "s".
This mass has a hairy appearance similar to the black-and-white mass of April 7, 1929. Also compare it with the trumpet mass photographed by Mr. Reed in 1939. Then the speaking voice showed the same characteristics.
Voice: "How would you like to take a picture now?" T. G. H. took the flash soon after the voice said: "Fire!"
J. A. Hamilton held Mary M.'s right-hand, T. G. H. held her left.
Walter's "Talking Machine" mass photographed. Mass growing out of the ear - shows hair-like formation and back of this trumpet-formed outlets. The supernormal voice speaking at the time. This voice suggests that T. G. H. release flash and take photograph. No signal - T. G. H. takes photographs at own time.
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Somewhat similar phenomenon observed and photographed by Dr. Crandon of Boston. Not reported by Schrenck-Notzing or Geley - the other two investigators who had photographed teleplasms.
July 17, 1929.
H. A. V. Green; Mrs. Poole; Susan Marshall
Serious words from Black Hawk.
9:20 p.m. Meeting opens.
Within five minutes E.M. was in deep trance.
R. L. Stevenson, David Livingstone, and W. T. Stead manifested through the medium by automatic writing.
E.M. then said: "Spurgeon."
E.M.: "I see Spotty (Flammarion). He says good evening to you."
More automatic writing followed.
After this E.M. returned to normal, moved out of the cabinet and took her place between W. B. Cooper and T. G. H.
Mary M. moved into the center of the cabinet and was controlled on her left by W. B. Cooper and on the right by J. A. Hamilton. The bell rang immediately and continuously until T. G. H. said: "Rap on the cabinet." This Mary M. did and the bell stopped ringing.
Mary M.: "Good evening." (Walter's usual style)
Mary M. made sound of puffing engine by hissing through her teeth and then a whistle as in approaching a station.
Walter: "What's it going to be tonight? There will be no picture."
T. G. H.: "I am sorry as it will be the last chance for several to be here for some time. Did you ring the bell at the start, Walter, or was it someone else?"
Walter: "No, I did not ring it that way."
T. G. H.: "It looks as though the talking machine, of which you gave us a picture last time, is very hairy. Did you take it from the ear or the neck?"
Walter: "It was hanging from the lobe of the ear. There were two cords to it; one from the ear and one from the nose. You only got a corner of it. It was just two finger widths out from the neck. It is small. I am working on it. The pins in her (Mary M.'s) hair were a damn nuisance."
Mary M. then stands up, stamps her feet regularly, faces north, then east, then north again, places right hand across her breast, then left hand across her breast, and bows first to the right and then to the left.
Mary M.: "Good evening."
T. G. H.: "Good evening. It is Black Hawk, isn't it?"
Mary M.: "Black Hawk is here speaking through the medium with her voice. Much work is being done all round. Paleface very busy all round. Great numbers of people are now calling for paleface. He is very busy."
T. G. H.: "People calling him from our side or yours?"
Black Hawk: "From Earth; calling; calling; calling. There is lots of work to be done. People are anxious. There is something very great coming. You will be very surprised very soon. I cannot tell you any more. I do not know myself, only I see work going on. Five great men are here helping paleface, all paleface men. Great groups are working together. They will soon be linked up right round your material plane. My friends, keep going forward. Rest neither night nor day, but go on with the work. Be earnest, be serious. It is a great truth that we do love and grow and learn things that you do not know on the material plane. They are only visible when you pass from the earth plane onto the Spiritual. If it could only be brought home to you. If you were only as anxious to learn as we are to give, you would never stop to eat or drink. Paleface does not tell you these things; but he learns and does great work, but he must learn the same as I have done. We count not time by years in the City Foursquare. Goodnight my friends. I must go. Paleface has work to do. I was only asked to stand on guard. I have disobeyed. Goodnight, my friends."
Mary M. bows three times, places left hand across breast, then right hand across breast, followed by the farewell call.
July 28, 1929.
A cross reference.
R. L. Stevenson.: "I hae got something for Hamilton. Take it down and give it to him. It's a wee story he'll ken about, and it's got a bit o' information in it."
"Away out in the mountains of Scotland they hae sheep, which they graze on the pasturages for a season. These lands are far away from the villages. With these sheep must go shepherds, who are essential to the guardianship of the sheep, and who must remain with them. When it is necessary to send to, or communicate with the villages, the shepherds do not go themselves, but they send wee boys to do the errand for them, while they stay with the sheep."
"And it is the same thing over here. Often the great, and the near great, do not actually come back to communicate very often, but they send in their places very wee boys who can go quickly, and thus have themselves free. The important people here do not come very often, but they are represented."
August 1, 1929
[Letter to Mr. Jean Meyer - Paris.]
Expresses interest in and appreciation for the work of Dr. Geley - now deceased - and Dr. Osty.
"You ask if our medium would come to Paris for experimental purposes and under what terms. To answer the first question it will be necessary to explain briefly the conditions under which we obtain our best physical manifestations."
"All the materializations, both amorphous and those showing faces - and it is in these that you are probably more interested - have been secured through a combined or group mediumship, as I briefly reported in an article "Ten Years of Psychical Research" in LIGHT of March 9, an article which you may be interested in looking up. In this group are the two mediums, Mary M. and Elizabeth M., and from three to five sitters, the number of sitters depending largely on the type of experiment. One of the sitters is undoubtedly a strong auxiliary medium. The photographs show the ectoplasmic extrusions to be connected very definitely with the body of Mary M.; but in no instance have these been obtained without the presence of Elizabeth and several of the regular sitters. I feel sure that careful standardization of our experimental group has been an important contributing factor to such success as we have obtained."
"You will see from this that were Mary M. separated from her supporting auxiliaries there would be little chance of securing ectoplasmic manifestations such as you are interested in; the medium Elizabeth and two or three members of the regular group should at least be present with her."
"Both of these mediums are without financial means. Elizabeth is a widow, fifty-eight years of age, who at the present is nursing (non-professionally) for a living; Mary M. is forty-nine and the wife of a church care-taker. Nevertheless, both have given of their time and gifts freely and without remuneration of any kind to our work here; and I feel sure, would be willing to go to Paris provided their expenses alone were met. As several members of the group, including Mr. G., my wife and myself are planning to visit England in the autumn of 1930 or early 1931, a series of experiments might be arranged at that time, should you still desire to do so. But as such a plan must of necessity remain indefinite for some time, should you wish to send an investigator over to us, we would be glad indeed to welcome him and to offer him every possible facility for full and free investigation, and to cooperate in any new experiments which might be deemed advisable."
"I am much interested in learning that you have an ultra-violet machine under construction in the expectation of recording the progressive morphological changes in ectoplasms. This matter has been of particular interest to me for some time: about four years ago I procured a Wood's filter and a quartz lens hoping to begin work along the same lines; but much to my regret found the cost of the equipment prohibitive. As yet we are not so fortunate as to have received any endowment whatsoever. I have, however, been offered the use of several excellent cinema cameras, and shall try, during our forthcoming experiments to obtain photographs of ectoplasm during disintegration. I may be wrong, but I am of the opinion that a flood of ultra-violet light powerful enough to record moving pictures will greatly retard the ectoplasm's progressive development, if indeed it does not altogether inhibit it."
"As to thought vibration between the incarnate and the discarnate, I do not as yet hold any very definite theories. So far as my own experiments and observations have led me, I find that thought, which apparently has its source, frequently at any rate, in the mind of the so-called dead, is transmitted by forces connected with the human organism, by means of telekinetic rappings, direct writing, and ectoplasmic voice, and by the more subjective channels, motor and sensory automatisms. Whether we ever get away from the human machine is, to my mind , a question."
"You may be interested to know that Mr. Stanley de Brath is very kindly publishing an illustrated article on our work in this October number, and that we have in preparation a second article which we hope he will accept for a subsequent issue."
"I am enclosing for your private use a number of the photographs of ectoplasm secured through the group-mediumship."
"Again let me say how very pleased I am to hear from you. This work in which we are both engaged is, without doubt, not only one of the most interesting of researches, but is, I am convinced, destined to be of paramount importance to the world at large."
August 2, 1929. .
Elizabeth Poole and Mary M. (both in cabinet), Mr. and Mrs. E. A. S. Hayward, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Cooper, Dr. J. A. Hamilton, Dr. and Lillian Hamilton, Susan Marshall, and W. E. Hobbes. Hands in chain formation.
Outside circle Mrs. W. C., and W. E. Hobbes.
[Note: Hobbes is note-taker. Haywards in group. First "apport" - a sweet pea is given to Mrs. Hayward. First phenomenon of this kind.]
[Good manifestation of supernormal psychic light.]
9:10 p.m. Sitting commences. Singing "Unto The Hills", followed by "Lead, Kindly Light."
9:16 p.m. E.M. in deep trance. Writing automatism manifests at intervals from 9:19 p.m. to 9:28 p.m.
E.M. said: "Stead", whereupon T. G. H. formally introduced Mr. and Mrs. Hayward, with whom he shook hands. T. G. H. explained that the Haywards were acquainted with Miss Estelle Stead.
9:31 p.m. E.M. says "Spurgeon." Group hummed "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood." E.M. continues "He is my God. Though dark my road, He holds, I shall not fall. Unto him I leave it all."
T. G. H.: "Who says that?"
E.M.: "Spurgeon."
9:35 p.m. E.M. returns to normal consciousness, moves out of cabinet, takes her place between W. B. Cooper and T. G. H.
T. G. H. opens all camera shutters.
Then E.M. relates her visions:
"... I saw Stevenson. I was near a boat but not on it. There must have been something wrong, but there was one man there who did the right thing. There was a hill opposite to us. Stevenson and another man who had come off the ship were at my side. The man who had done right wrote his name on a piece of wood, and Stevenson patted him on the back. In the second Stevenson picture I was among a rough bunch who were using bottles. They were on a boat, and I could see no land. Stevenson was not pleased at them . I was with Stevenson on the boat. In both pictures, Stevenson appeared as a young man just turned twenty."
"... I got a peculiar Livingstone picture. He was writing a letter in Africa, and I was there when it landed in England. I was with his mother in a little thatched cottage receiving the letter. I was not inside the cottage."
"I saw Spotty (Flammarion). There were too many around there."
"I saw Stead, who seemed pleased, and Spurgeon too."
"Stead had on a gray suit. He looked real fresh and well. He was sitting in a room where the couch and chairs were upholstered in a deep red plush. There were lots of folks around. The room was lined with bookcases. A model ship was on the mantelpiece. It was a sailing vessel, not made of wood, but looked like bronze."
9:44 p.m. All Sing: "Jingle Bells."
9:45 p.m. Mary M.: "Good evening." All reply "Good evening."
Mary M.: "Goody, goody!"
T. G. H.: "Go away! I don't want you."
Mary M.: "I comes, I comes. I comes to the lady."
T. G. H.: "No, no. Go away!"
Mary M.: "I can! I can! I can! They cannot stop me!" (Very excited.)
T. G. H.: "Who are you and what do you want?"
Mary M.: "I want to speak to the lady."
T. G. H.: "Go away."
Mary M.: "Presses forward, and shakes hands with Mrs. Hayward."
Mary M.: "You dropped it. I gave you a flower. Find it quick, quick!"
Mrs. Hayward: "I have found it. Thank you very much."
This 'apport' was a single sweet pea blossom, having pink heel and wings, and white standard. Mary M., still very upset, continues sobbing.
T. G. H.: "Let's sing." All Sing "Clementine."
9:50 p.m. Mary M.: "Stand back! Stand back! Good evening."
T. G. H.: "Is that you, Walter?"
Mary M.: "Yes."
T. G. H.: "We want to introduce Mr. and Mrs. Hayward."
Mary M.: "I am sorry you did not take the little girl kindly. She wanted a flower given, and I told her to give it herself; but she got so excited that I could not help her. I think the flower is pink. She took it from her hair. The preacher is here and he seems very much annoyed at something."
T. G. H.: "Is it something that has happened on your side?"
Mary M.: "Nothing like that happens on this side. No, he does not feel that he is welcome. He has walked away. I will shake hands with the visitors. (He does so). We are always glad to meet those who are really interested, and not just curious. We are glad to meet them and give them a hearty welcome. I am sorry that we cannot give you a photograph tonight. Our medium has not been here lately, and conditions are not very satisfactory for photography. I will try to answer any question that you may put to me."
T. G. H.: "Could you ring the bell, Walter, as you do in Boston?"
Mary M.: "The bell at Boston and the bell here are very different."
T. G. H.: "Does Harry Green's absence affect you?"
Mary M.: "Conditions for the last sitting have not been good."
T. G. H.: "Broken up by members of the circle being absent?"
Mary M.: "No, no. Sing. Sing!"
9:57 p.m. All Sing "Golden Slippers". Bell rings several times.
T. G. H.: "Is the medium sitting?"
W. B. Cooper: "No. I have her left hand."
J. A. Hamilton: "I have her right hand."
10:02 p.m. Walter attempted to speak with a direct voice, but his remarks could not be understood.
Walter shows his light, which moves about and continues until 10:03 p.m., the bell ringing intermittently.
Mary M.: "Not tonight; not tonight. Sing "Saved by Grace". All sing softly.
Mary M.: "I said SING!" Group sings louder, and Mary M., apparently controlled by Spurgeon, leads lustily to the end of the second verse at 10:06 p.m..
T. G. H.: "Will you speak a few words to Mr. and Mrs. Hayward? They are on their way from China to Old England."
Mary M.: "What could I say? Nothing that they do not know already."
Mrs. Hayward: "We should be glad to hear you say anything. Dr. Hamilton has given me several photographs of you, which will be of great interest to many."
Mary M.: "That is true; but who will see these pictures? Only those that are really interested. As Paul said 'There is hope.' That is what we need. Hope! Hope!"
We are all hoping. We on this side are hoping; you here are hoping. What for? Truth!"
"There is no death! It is only a transformation! We are not afraid; you are not afraid of death. There is no death, but an external semblance of change. A change as of a caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. These things change. We change, you change."
"Man is the only thing that is truly formed. You have the sea, the mountains, the sun and the stars. All are perfect. Man only, is imperfect ..."
"I should like to talk; but it is so difficult! I am hoping that someday I shall be able to speak in my own voice and in my own way, that Jesus lives, and that we live. He is our Elder Brother, and our God, and Father."
"Man comes as a baby and he grows and grows, first babyhood, then boyhood, then manhood. He may live to be 60, 70, or 80 years of age; unknown to us: and when he reaches that, he is only seeing things for the first time."
"Do you think that Father God would take from him these, just as he is beginning to see things? No. We live and live. There are ways of serving: some may serve in public; others in private; but when you come here you have to serve, and there is no pretense."
"I must go. I love to talk to you; but it is so impossible ... no, not impossible, as by-and-by we shall be able to come and talk to you."
"Have you ever read the 'Burial Service for the Dead'? You want to read it. Oh, read it, and just see if it says that you put off these earthly clothes and that there is nothing more about you - you're dead. No, it does not say that. There is a sure hope - hope, my friends!"
"Alright. Goodnight."
10:15 p.m. All sing "Clementine."
10:16 p.m. Mary M. stands, bows three times, carries left arm across her breast, then right arm across.
Mary M.: "Good evening. I have come to say 'How do you do?'"
T. G. H.: "Black Hawk, may I introduce Mr. and Mrs. Hayward?"
Mary M. bows to each, shakes hands with Mr. Hayward, places her hand on Mrs. Hayward's hand and moves it up her forearm.
Mrs. Hayward: "Thank you. That was very kind."
A psychic light is seen hovering near the table.
Mrs. Hayward: "Is that your light, Black Hawk?"
Mary M.: "No. That is Paleface's light."
Mrs. Hayward.: "Won't you say something to us?"
Mary M.: "You have many good friends with you who are more able to talk with you than I. I talk not as my own people, but as paleface has taught me to speak to you."
Mrs. Hayward: "Can our friends talk with us?"
Mary M.: "There are a great many spirit friends with you ... if I dared, I would give you the Sailor's Hornpipe."
Here Mary M. regains normal consciousness and make some reference to HMS Pembroke; also sees letters which she reads and spells out: HMS A-d-e-l-a ... and two more letters which she could not identify.
10:24 p.m. Mary M.: "I must go, friends." Bows three times, carries left hand and then right hand across breast. Followed by the Indian farewell call.
All sing: "Clementine."
Mary M.: (not conscious) "Listen! Walter says you are to sit quiet for a little while and all concentrated."
A minute later she laughs, but refuses to repeat what some spirits said to her.
Then she speaks: "Walter says 'Roll your eyes.' He is rolling his and making faces. There is a light beside you, Mrs. Hamilton. Susan (Mrs. Susan Marshall), come on, speak up! Walter will let you ... I just hear him saying "Harry is here", and someone asks for someone to whistle the Hornpipe.
10:34 p.m. Mary M. dances the hornpipe, going through the motions of pulling on ropes, etc. She then makes sounds like a steamship, and says "... in a flowing sea." Then claps hands, and makes sounds imitating the wind at sea whistling through the rigging.
All sing: "A Life On the Ocean Wave".
Mary M. sings: "Jack's the boy for me." She dances, says, "Another little drink won't do us any harm! Let us sing a song about a sailor."
No one knows such, but the group makes an attempt, which is not satisfactory; Mary M. (Walter) says: Sing! Sing! If you know it. If not, shut up!"
Mary M. leads in singing "It is the Navy, the British Navy", then comments: "No, we have no Navy. It is cut to nothing. We'll soon have no Navy. We don't need it. We don't need it perhaps. Be prepared! If you steal my scone, I'll steal your bun. Do you know that? Be prepared for anything ... Sing a song about a jolly sailor. Where's the sailor here tonight that cannot sing?"
Mr. Hayward: "I know only serious songs."
Mary M.: "All right. Ten days CB. Serious, all right!"
Someone asks what CB means. Mr. Cooper explains: " Confined to Barracks."
Mary M.: "No. It is not "Confined to barracks; it is, stand and look at the paint. (To Mr. Hayward). Did you ever give anyone that?"
Mr. Hayward: "Yes."
Mary M.: "For what?"
Mr. Hayward: "For breaking out. Do you know me?"
Mary M.: "My name is Jack Wells of HMS Pembroke of Chatham. No, I didn't know that guy."
Mrs. Hayward: "Their ages are different."
Mary M.: "I don't know my age. I am young and full of pep. I would rather be full of beer. Many's the time I scrubbed and many's the time I washed the paint. It is nice to be here with you."
T. G. H.: "Is it long since you went over?"
Mary M.: "Yes. I went over the side and forgot to come up. I was feeding the fishes. I left the ship and the paint and all the paraphernalia."
Mrs. Hayward: "Was it an accident?"
Mary M.: "No. That was the time I had to go."
T. G. H.: "Was it in wartime?"
Mary M.: "No. Out maneuvering, and I had a little drop too much. They did not hear me, and I was missing, and here I am."
Mrs. Hayward: "I hope you will help us."
Mary M.: "Help him? (Walter). Oh, he wouldn't take any advice from me ... Two pints of beer ... eight bells, dog watch."
Mary M.: (normal) "Walter says you had better go. Don't let anyone else come through now."
10:51 p.m. sitting ended. T. G. H. closes all cameras.
August 4, 1929.
T. G. H.; W. E. Hobbes; Mrs. Poole; B. Shand; L. H.; Mr. and Mrs. D. Forrester; A. C. Whittaker.
Apport received.
During the interval following the second Stevenson writing, T. G. H. remarks that he feels water dropping on his hand. He counts audibly up to six drops. In a few minutes he says that it is perfume. We all smell his hand - a strong odor of delightful perfume. There was nothing like it in the house at that time.
Both Mrs. Poole and Mary Marshall were entranced during the perfume incident.
Further note: Margaret Hamilton came home from meeting, and smelled the fragrance on T. G. H.'s arm, after the sitting.
Everyone in the group except the mediums who are both in trance smell the odor of beautiful perfume on his hand and pervading the room. When Elizabeth recovers consciousness, she complains that it is so strong it almost chokes her.
Walter comes through and says that he is busy working.
August 7, 1929.
B. Shand; Mary E. Forrester; J. A. Hamilton; L. H.; T. G. H.; A.E. Hobbes; Mrs. Poole; Mary Marshall; A. C. Whittaker; J. D. Hamilton.
Walter to rename his mediums.
Usual procedure.
Arthur Hamilton appears to E.M. in her visions - writes his second message "Ha, Ha, you can't catch me." (This apparently to Jimmy who is at the back of the room)
Walter comes through and repeats the following instructions: "Mary M. is to wear only one garment; shoulders and face to be bathed in warm water and left moist; Mary M. to sit outside the cabinet for the next experiment. He also takes Mrs. Susan Marshall Jr. into the cabinet. Says he will give each of his mediums a new name.
August 11, 1929.
B. Shand; May E. Forrester; J. A. Hamilton; L. H.; T. G. H.; Mary M.; A. C. Whittaker; Mrs. Poole absent.
An impromptu sitting: small group.
During the usual first period, Mary M. hears a voice say "Little friend not here tonight." (A favorite expression of R. L. Stevenson.)
We sing "The Lord Is My Shepherd, We Are All His Sheep".
Walter comes through his medium, Mary M., speaks with difficulty; remarks that we are a small group; long conversation; says Mary M. has great power - if only he could have it all to himself ... The day will come when she will give all her time to this great work.
She has much to contend with; he is often beside her. If only he could get the gentleman (H. Green) he would make a great medium of him - he has a fine mind.
Speaking of the "faces" he insisted that they were the real personality clothed in teleplasm. He had told us this and it was absurd to ask again. We would hear from Boston soon.
August 17, 1929.
William M. Cannon; Mrs. Cannon; T. G. H.; W. B. Cooper; Mrs. Poole; L. H.; Mary Marshall; Susan Marshall; J. A. Hamilton.
Special sitting for Judge Cannon and Mrs. Cannon of New York, close friends of the Crandons of Boston. Psychic "light" and much Bell ringing.
[Note: Mr. Cannon declared that he thought we (the Hamiltons) were making a mistake - common to all researchers - in regarding the evidence for survival as being fully scientific. In his opinion it was legal evidence of a very impressive type, looking at the evidence as a whole in its cumulative effect. I am inclined to agree with him.]
(Signed) L. H., March, 1952.
[T. G. H. held that the establishment of the super-normality of the E.M. trance products and telekinesis, and all the Mary. M. teleplasms were scientific, and offered the best evidence yet, of survival on a sound legal basis. L. H]
Direct voice and supernormal light.
9:28 p.m. Meeting opens.
E.M. trance automatisms.
Mary M. in trance at 10:05 p.m..
10:06 p.m. Walker says: "Hello." Tries the direct voice: "Ninety-nine. Good evening." We sing and the direct voice is better. "Hello! Hello! (Much better this time) . You are far too tense."
We sing "Golden Slippers".
Walter: "There'll be a collection of wooden slippers. Well, what are you waiting for? The next bus home?"
Sitters wonder if he could ring the bell.
Walter: "Somebody give me a hammer."
"Canned" music. Direct voice: "It's gone! (Mary M.'s voice) It's gone!" ... Music goes on. Direct voice tries again: "M-m-m-damn! I can do nothing."
Mr. Cannon: "What's the matter, Walter?"
Walter: "Hello! Where did you come from?"
Mary M.: "Sing! Sing!" (Interference)
Walter: "You are all wrong! All wrong! (Claps hands violently on the table). Damn! Damn! It's no good, these are a damn bunch! I'll give her something. It's just damnable to get near her. For a while I beat them off. They (the circle) don't follow my instructions. They're damn idiots! You know how to conduct their circle here; it's the best they can do."
Mr. Cannon:"You treat Dr. Hamilton like a doormat."
Walter: "I hope I have something a little better tonight."
Mr. Cannon: "Couldn't you do one little stunt?"
10:40 p.m. The light appears on the table.
E.M. : "Stretch it out."
Walter: "I'll stretch you out."
The light appears again by Mary M.; very bright. It recedes and comes forward. Walter says that he is going to show his face in a light someday when he gets his "crew" organized. He goes on: "I haven't got my assistant (Mr. Green). A man can't work without his proper crew. I'll say I can't. If I had ... I could give you all kinds of things."
Mr. Cannon: "Thumb prints?"
Walter: "I told them a long time ago to get the apparatus. I told them but something happened; something always happens."
"I wish you could make my medium take a rest from reading till after this picture; she is the worst kind of an Egyptian. I can't move her; she will not be moved away ..."
"If I had the medium to myself I would astonish people. Some day the Egyptian and I will have a set-to and we'll see."
"I'll get your preacher; he'll preach and he'll pray for the lost soul ..."
"I'm sorry I can't oblige (with phenomena); I have no cords. I told you some time ago that I had disconnected them . Well, I think we had better adjourn. Will you all be here for another session tomorrow night - and be on time. (We tell Walter that Mary M. cannot). She'll be here. But be on time for goodness sake!"
Mrs. Marshall Jr. says that she does not think that she can come - her husband will not let her. Walter replies that he'll settle him. Tells her to put on the "honey"; "Tell him he's younger looking."
He says also that his medium (Mary M.) thinks that she won't be present Sunday evening; but he says that she will: "She will have something to keep her when she gets home."
"You can all come tomorrow. I promise you I shall be here with bells on. Your fat preacher is not pleased. He says he doesn't get a show. Oh, he's all right."
