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 which I make, and have occasionally altered the spelling in conformity with usage: otherwise the matter remains as Boake wrote it.

In 1888 Boake wrote to his father a remarkable letter giving particulars of a mock hanging by which he nearly lost his life. This incident made an indelible impression on his mind, and I have no doubt that in brooding over it he familiarised the idea of suicide by hanging. (The first paragraph is given literatim as in the original.)