The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism

One Sunday evening, in Ludlow Place, occurred the grandest manifestations of Spirit presence I ever witnessed or heard of. Our good friend Dr. A. D. Wilson and his friend Dr. Ki...

LETTERS AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES RESPECTING OUR NEW YORK CAMPAIGN--LETTER FROM AMY POST--LETTERS FROM JOHN E. ROBINSON--ARTICLE FROM A SUNDAY NEWSPAPER--FROM THE NEW YORK DAY-BOOK...

INVESTIGATIONS UPON INVESTIGATIONS--A MEETING AT THE PHELPS HOUSE--MANIFESTATIONS WITH BELLS, ETC.--MR. ALBRO'S REPORT--A DEATH SCENE--LETTER FROM ME TO THE "COMMERCIAL ADVERTIS...

N. S. WHEELER--E. S. BROWNFIELD--CHILLICOTHE COMMITTEE--CHARLES F. WHIPPO--M. L. WRIGHT--D. A. EDDY--EXTRACTS FROM THE PRESS--"A FAIR CHALLENGE FROM MRS. FISH" AND SEQUEL--COLUM...

LIGHT ARTICLES MADE IMMOVABLE--THE COFFINS--ADIEU OF THE SPIRITS--THEIR RETURN--FIRST STEPS TOWARD PUBLIC INVESTIGATION--"HIRE CORINTHIAN HALL"--FIRST COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION...

"_More Testimony._--Some friends of Mrs. Fish, on learning her intended visit to this city, gave her many flattering letters, signifying their great esteem for her and confidenc...

MY FIRST KNOWLEDGE OF THE MATTER--HASTEN TO HYDESVILLE--RAPPING ON A CANAL BOAT--EXPERIENCES--MOTHER COMES TO ROCHESTER--CALVIN BROWN--DEVIOUS ROUTE OF PROJECTILES UP-STAIRS FRO...

We had passed the fiery ordeal. It had been a wearisome, exhausting trial. We needed rest, and it was thought advisable for us to remain there a few days. Many people called at...

The following statements were made by the different persons whose names are signed to them, and taken down in writing as they made them; after which they were carefully read, an...

"Permit me to offer a few thoughts in reference to your late visit to the Queen City. Having spent the day in calling on a number of the friends who visited you while here, I fi...

I will here interrupt the course of this narrative with a chapter about our family, principally in reference to that peculiar and strange constitutional _something_, which, in u...

SPIRIT LIGHTS VISIBLE AT DARK SÉANCES--PRIVATE CIRCLE IN JERSEY CITY IN 1857--SOLID GRANULES OF PHOSPHORUS APPEARING IN EARTH WHICH I HAD TOUCHED--SURPRISING AND DISTRESSING LET...

URGED TO RETURN TO NEW YORK--VISIT TO BUFFALO--ATTEMPT BY A PRETENDED FRIEND TO FRIGHTEN US AWAY--THUNDERBOLT FROM THE BUFFALO COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER--THE "FEMALES"--KNEE-JOINT T...

COMPETING CLAIMS UPON US--DECISION IN FAVOR OF NEW YORK AS RESIDENCE--DEATH OF CALVIN R. BROWN--REMAINS REMOVED TO ROCHESTER FOR BURIAL--PERSONAL FRIENDSHIPS--ALICE AND PHOEBE C...

AGREEMENT FOR AN INVESTIGATION BY A COMMITTEE OF HARVARD PROFESSORS--EXPULSION OF A STUDENT FROM THE DIVINITY SCHOOL FOR THE CRIME OF MEDIUMSHIP--PROFESSOR FELTON--AGASSIZ--VARL...

"THE ROCHESTER KNOCKINGS AT BARNUM'S HOTEL"--HARD WORK--OUR VISITORS--A POISONED BOUQUET--HAIR OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON I.--HAIR OF JOHN C. CALHOUN--INVESTIGATION AT RESIDENCE OF...

"The room was lighted by gas. There were two windows fronting the street; three doors: one opening on a corridor whence a staircase ascended to the next floor, another opening o...

Although not directly connected with the affair of the Harvard Professors, yet it comes in natural sequence to the preceding chapter for me to mention that, after the appearance...

DISINTERESTED JUDGMENTS UPON THE SHAM INVESTIGATION--OUR PART IN THE PROCEEDINGS--MORE FAIR INVESTIGATION BY THE COLLECTIVE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NEW ENGLAND PRESS--INVESTIGATI...

We were directed (by the spirits) to "go forth and let the truth be known." We had already passed through a terrible experience, and feared to make another such hazardous attemp...

Our rooms were frequented by much of the best society in New York; and it was common to see the street encumbered with long files of carriages. Particularly the intellectual and...

Before I proceed to our next field of operations, which was Ohio, I may take the opportunity afforded by the interval to extract from a volume entitled, "D. M. Dewey's History o...

Mediumship is a great mystery. Some persons are found to possess the gift (often from ancestral derivation, as in the case of the "second-sight" in the Scotch Highlands), while...

We reached our home in Rochester late in the evening, and, as my housekeeper was absent, we were alone in the Troup Street house that night. The friends had kindly lighted and w...

It was late in July, 1848. The old house at Hydesville was not occupied by any one, save the "murdered man." Many went there alone, or in small parties; and often the rappings w...

But I must mention more particularly the case of my little nephew, the elder of the two children of my sister Katie, now Mrs. Jencken (pronounced Yencken); for I have now before...

VENTRILOQUISM--"PROCLAIM THESE TRUTHS TO THE WORLD"--THE CALL FOR THE ALPHABET--VOICES IN RAPS--GOD'S TELEGRAPH BETWEEN THE TWO WORLDS--AN EVICTION--COMMITTEE OF FIVE--NO MONEY...

MOVING A LEDGE OF ROCK ON THE SEA-SHORE--RAPS ON THE WATER, AND IN THE LIVING WOOD--SEEING THE RAPS--MOVING PONDERABLE BODIES BY OCCULT AGENCY--CRUCIAL TEST--A HEAVY DINNER-TABL...

During the progress of all this, our Buffalo Campaign, it is scarcely worth while to say that I received no end of letters of sympathy and encouragement. The number must have co...

I might fill many pages with my reminiscences under this head, but I now confine myself to three instances, the first in order being also the first in my experience. I take it p...

In the preceding Chapter VI., I have mentioned some marvels about the infant mediumship of my little nephew, the elder of Cathie's two boys, Ferdinand Diedrich Loewenstein Jenck...

Dark night lay over the land, O'er the graves of all the dead, And all hearts were stirred, and filled With feelings deep and dread; Not without doubt and fearing, But as chille...

MRS. MARGARET FOX _Frontispiece._ PAGE JOHN D. FOX 10 DIAGRAM, PROSPECT STREET HOUSE 42 AUTOGRAPH ILLUSTRATIONS OF A BABY'S MEDIUMSHIP 90 MRS. MARGARETTA FOX KANE 122 DIAGRAM, T...

In compliance with the advice and wishes of the friend who has aided me in putting together the scattered parts of my volume, I now proceed to wind it up with what I might call...

MISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS (_Continued_) 421 Crowd of Spirits made Visible by Lightning--Scarcely Credible but True--A Game of Euchre--Margaret's Dream--Mistaken Names Corrected by...

PHOSPHORUS 282 Spirit Lights Visible at Dark Séances--Private Circle in Jersey City in 1857--Solid Granules of Phosphorus Appearing in Earth which I had Touched--Surprising and...

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS CONNECTED WITH THE OHIO CAMPAIGN 231 N. S. Wheeler--E. S. Brownfield--Chillicothe Committee--Charles F. Whippo--M. L. Wright--D. A. Eddy--Extracts from the...

EXPERIENCES OF ROBERT DALE OWEN THROUGH THE MEDIUMSHIP OF THE AUTHOR 339 Moving a Ledge of Rock on the Sea-shore--Raps on the Water, and in the Living Wood--Seeing the Raps--Mov...

RETURN TO ROCHESTER 142 Letters and Newspaper Articles Respecting our New York Campaign--Letter from Amy Post--Letters from John E. Robinson--Article from a Sunday Newspaper--Fr...

BUFFALO (_Continued_) 179 Investigations upon Investigations--A Meeting at the Phelps House--Manifestations with Bells, etc.--Mr. Albro's Report--A Death Scene--Letter from Me t...

NEW YORK CITY, FROM JANUARY, 1852 250 Competing Claims upon Us--Decision in Favor of New York as Residence--Death of Calvin R. Brown--Remains Removed to Rochester for Burial--Pe...

NEW YORK. 1850 128 "The Rochester Knockings at Barnum's Hotel"--Hard Work--Our Visitors--A Poisoned Bouquet--Hair of the Emperor Napoleon I.--Hair of John C. Calhoun--Investigat...

ROCHESTER 30 My First Knowledge of the Matter--Hasten to Hydesville--Rapping on a Canal Boat--Experiences--Mother Comes to Rochester--Calvin Brown--Devious Route of Projectiles...

ROCHESTER (_Continued_) 47 Ventriloquism--"Proclaim these Truths to the World"--The Call for the Alphabet--Voices in Raps--God's Telegraph between the two Worlds--An Eviction--C...

BOSTON AND THE HARVARD PROFESSORS, 1857 297 Agreement for an Investigation by a Committee of Harvard Professors--Expulsion of a Student from the Divinity School for the Crime of...

BOSTON AND THE HARVARD PROFESSORS (_Continued_) 312 Disinterested Judgments upon the Sham Investigation--Our Part in the Proceedings--More Fair Investigation by the Collective R...

BUFFALO. 1850-51. 165 Urged to Return to New York--Visit to Buffalo--Attempt by a Pretended Friend to Frighten us Away--Thunderbolt from the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser--The "...

ROCHESTER (_Continued_), November, 1848 57 Light Articles made Immovable--The Coffins--Adieu of the Spirits--Their Return--First Steps toward Public Investigation--"Hire Corinth...

ALBANY AND TROY. 1850 115 Excursion to Albany--Delavan House and Van Vechten Hall--Rev. Dr. Staats and the Judges--High Class of Minds Interested--President Eliphalet Nott--Pecu...

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON MEDIUMSHIP 403 Mysteries of Mediumship--To Prove the Immortality of the Soul--Passivity and Harmony at Séances--Honest and Candid Scepticism--Imaginary and...

THE OHIO CAMPAIGN 219 Return to Rochester--Attempted Burglary--Summons to Ohio--"Rev." C. C. Burr--"Toe-ology"--Gold Medals and Jewelled Watch--First Public Speech--Committee In...

NEW YORK CITY (_Continued_) 269 Our Brilliant Success with the Superior Intellectual Classes--Whiskey at Washington--Cognizance of Domestic Secrets--Discomfiture of Anderson, "t...