The simplest solution for the whole business, though perhaps not the most “scientific,” or even probable, is that the spirit of G.P. was troubled about A. and habitually thinking of me at the University Club as a Yale man, on my turning up at the seance, was reminded of the solution of A.’s troubles proposed through B., and wanted me to help.

And now to this rather commonplace manifestation comes an interesting sequel illustrating the reach of mind spoken of at the outset.  Out of a perfectly clear sky came to me in New York on April 8, 1894, the message from G.P., to look out for A., who was low in his mind, and that B. was trying to get a place for him.  On May 29th, Hodgson writes me as follows, showing that the same thing had come up through the heteromatic writing of A.’s wife at Granada in Spain, and meant nothing to her or to A.

—­You may be interested in the inclosed.  Keep private. [This injunction is of course outlawed by time, but I still conceal the names of the parties.  Ed.] and please return.  I am writing from my den, and haven’t copy of your sitting at hand.  But I remember that something was said at your sitting re B. and A.

    (Copy of Enclosure.)

    “GRANADA, May 6, 1894.

    “Dear H.[odgson]: 

“Those suggestions from Geo. that I write to B. prove interesting in the light of what I first learned here:  that he had been lamenting my silence and had been urging me to a place as ——­ [at] Yale where he is.  I had no notion of this move on his part till four days ago when I received a letter telling me.  Of course nothing came of it, but anything less known than that cannot be imagined.  The message came once earlier thro’ [his wife.  Ed.] to whom George wrote it [heteromatically.  Ed.].  George [in life.  Ed.] never heard of B. nor saw him, nor did we ever speak of B. to Geo. or Phinuit....  Of course I don’t want mention made of the effort of B. to get me the Yale place.  What Geo. said was to write to B.; he is a good friend of yours [i.e., of A. Ed.]

    “All send kind messages.  Yrs. ever.

    “A——.”

Being intensely busy, and not as much interested in the matter as later experiences have made me, I did not at the moment catch the full purport of Hodgson’s letter, or write him till June 5th, and did not keep any copy that I can find of my letter.  He wrote me on the 8th: 

    “Thanks for yours of June 5th, with return of A.’s letter.  I knew
    nothing whatever of the circumstances connected with B., neither,
    so far as I can tell by cross-questioning, did Mrs. Piper.”

And I, the present scribe, certainly did not.  A. did not.  B. alone did, with whatever persons he may have approached on the matter, and Mrs. Piper had presumably never seen one of the group.  So where did Mrs. Piper and Mrs. A. get it?  The only answers that seem possible are that she and Mrs. A. either got it teloteropathically from one of those absent, or that the postcarnate George Pelham himself wrote her about it, and also told me of it through Mrs. Piper’s organism in New York, and four days later was working it into a cross-correspondence through Mrs. A. in Spain.  At first blush the latter seems easier; and I am not sure but that it does on reflection.