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I then telegraphed back to Mr. B. begging him to explain the situation of my sister, when immediatel

Date of account: Published 1885
Source: The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism
Reference: The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism · selected passage 107
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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"George Willets and myself went over to see Clara (your housekeeper) yesterday

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"George Willets and myself went over to see Clara (your housekeeper) yesterday. She is getting along tolerably well, but appears unwilling to remain much longer alone. She is evidently afraid--thinks the Spirits annoy her at nights. More than half of that is (of course) imagination. Why not come home, and go again, _if you must_, westward? But here I am asking you questions and you do not answer them. Busied as you are, and tired as you must be, most of the time, it is too much of a task for you to write to me; and I don't know but George is right in saying, 'Leah has found so many new loves that the winds blowing eastward come not freighted with a thought of _us_.' Since the above was written an old friend from the country has called in to see me, and one of his questions was, 'Well, do your views remain the same in regard to the rapping?' 'Yes,' I said, 'I have had no occasion or cause to change them.' 'Why, Doctor Flint's statement has explained the whole thing,' he said, and added, 'He writes very plausibly and conclusively on the subject.' Now, this friend and relative of mine is a most excellent man, and I thoroughly appreciate him as a good member of society, an excellent husband and father, and an honest man; but the light

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