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Rh used to live with you in Chester? She died in 1872. She hopes you are having a good time in London.'

"Instantly thereafter I found myself wide awake, felt no surprise at not finding the pad of paper on my knee, because I then realised that that was but the hallucination of a dream, but impressed with that feature of my thought which related to the message, I partly turned my head, and, speaking over my shoulder to the doctor, said: 'Doctor, I have a message for you.'

"The doctor looked up from the British Medical Journal which he was reading, and said: 'What 's that?’

"'I have a message for you,' I repeated. 'It is this: "Dear Doctor: Do you remember Katy McGuire, who used to live with you in Chester? She died in 1872. She hopes you are having a good time in London.'"

"The doctor looked at me with amazement written all over his face, and said: 'Why, what the devil do you mean?'

"'I don't know anything about it except that just before I woke up I was impelled to receive this message which I have just delivered to you.'

"'Did you ever hear of Katy McGuire?' asked the doctor.

"'Never in my life.'

"'Well,’ said the doctor, 'that 's one of the most remarkable things I ever heard of.'"

Dr. De Wolf writes:

"6, May 4th, 1898. " Mr. Wilkie’s statement is correct except as to unimportant details. My father practised his profession of medicine in Chester, Mass., for sixty years—dying in 1890. I was born in Chester and lived there until 1857, when I was in Paris studying medicine for four years. In 1861 I returned to America and immediately entered the army as surgeon and served until the close of the war in 1865. In 1866 I located in Northampton, Mass., where I practised my profession until 1873, when I removed to Chicago.