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THE EXISTENCE OP SPIRITS. 53235. My spirit sister has .since informed nic that my name was writtenupon tliepaper by my spirit friend William ]>lodget.230. Wliilc at Boston, having read to a friend a communication from myfather through a ^Yriting medium, I phiced it in one of my pockot.s, andproceeded to the Fountain Inn. When there, I felt for it without success.Unexpectedly, I went to Salem by the cars, and returned the same evening'.On undressing myself the scroll was missing, and I inferred that it hadbeen lost between the place where it had been read and the inn abovenamed, where I felt for it unsuccessfully. On going next morning to Mrs.Haydcn's, and my spirit father reporting himself, I inquired whether heknew what had become of the scroll. It was answered, that it had beenleft upon the seat in the car on my quitting it at Salem.237. Inquiring of the conductor, who was on duty in the car where it hadbeen left, he said that it had been found on the seat, was safe at Portland,and should be returned to me next day.This promise was realized.238. On one occasion, sitting at the disk with Mrs. Ilayden, a spiritgave his initials as C. H. Hare.Not recollecting any one of our relationsof that name precisely, I inquired if he were one of them.The reply wasaffirmative. "Are you a son of my cousin Charles Hare, of St. Johns,New Brunswick V " Yes," was spelled out. This spirit then gave methe profession of his grandfather, also that of his father, and the fact ofthe former having been blown intothe water at Toulon, and of the latterhaving made a miraculous escape from Yerdun, where he had been confineduntil his knowledge of French enabled him to escape by personatingin disguise an officer of the customs. Only one mistake was made inreferring to my English relatives, respecting an uncle's name. Other inquirieswere correctly answered.239. Subsequently, the brother of this spirit made us a visit in Philadelphia,and informed us that the mundane career of his brother CharlesHenry, had been terminated by shipwreck some few years anteriorvisitmade, as mentioned, to me.to the240. No one being present beside myself, and the medium ignorant ofLatin, my father spelt out upon the disk the words he had pointed out tome in Yirgil more than fifty-five years ago, as expressive of the beatingEntellus gave Dares, as described by Yirgil ^^pulsatque versatque;" alsothe word which so much resembles the sound of horses' hoofs tramplingon the ground, '^ Quadrupedante.'^241. A spirit of the name of Powel tendered his services, and undertookto spell Cato, but instead of that name, Blodget, my friend,occupied the disk, and spelt his own name, and afterward Cato. On thesame occasion Blodget spelt out and designated words without the mediumseeing the alphabet.242. The employment of letters to express ideas neither existing inthe mind of the medium nor in mine, cannot evidently be explained by