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128 Lord Carnarvon writes:

The Maharajah Duleep Singh died on Sunday, October 22, 1893.

We have several cases in which the sight of a material object appears to have facilitated the hallucination. Thus Edmund Gurney has quoted, in Phantasms of the Living, a case where a young girl saw a familiar face growing out of a pansy. In another case the percipient saw the figure of her mother in a white dimity curtain at the foot of the bed. When the curtain was shaken the figure disappeared. In Case 41 below, the percipient saw a face form on the panels of a wardrobe illuminated by the moon.

In the next case the vision seems to have been seen within an hour of the death. Here again the hallucination appears not to have been completely externalised.

No. 34. From, April 19th, 1895.

On the 16th (28th) of February of this year (1895) between 9 and 10 o'clock in the evening, I, the undersigned, was sitting in our drawing-room—the small one—facing the large