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304 Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research.
Denver of the nature of my work, so that even the newspapers
had no material on which information could be drawn. I said
nothing to Mrs. Chenoweth of my trip, not even that I had taken
one, so that she was in complete ignorance about the trip and
the work.
At the first sitting on September 30th, 1918, without any hint
or inquiry from me the following came, purporting to come from
Dr. Hodgson:
I want to talk a little later about some experiments which have
been tried at the other place and I want to give some friends who
have more recently come a chance to do what is expected.
It is not assured in this passage that the western locality was
meant but there is no mistake about the following:
I know about the trip, since you left, and I was somewhat surprised
that the results were not better, and that there was such indication
of power and promise of comparatively unusual definiteness
and yet it took so long to make connections as desired.
There is the tacit recognition of failure here or of less results
than I had expected, tho Mrs. Chenoweth could know nothing of
them. The next day Dr. Hodgson came back to the subject
&pontaneously, after discussing some matters pertaining to another
person and communicator who had given his name the day
before. The following is what was said relevant to the western
trip and work :
There is the matter of the work which I referred to yesterday
and which I now wish to say more about.
(Yes, good.)
The effort was made on our part to meet the appointments and,
as in some cases in the past, we found a very apparent desire, on
one side, to make the work easy for us, and on the other, a clear
and well defined purpose to continue with the methods then in use,
and not to make any concessions to our desire to clear the whole
atmosphere around the light and make our work tell for something.
There are two or three points which I wish to refer to presently
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