The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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To Mrs. Charles McQuiston:  
DOBBS FERRY, N. Y.  
March 26, 1901.  
DEAR MRS. McQUISTON,--I have never had an experience which moved me  
to  
believe the living can communicate with the dead, but my wife and I have  
experimented in the matter when opportunity offered and shall continue  
to do so.  
I enclose a letter which came this morning--the second from the same  
source. Mrs. K----is a Missourian, and lately she discovered, by  
accident, that she was a remarkable hypnotiser. Her best subject is a  
Missouri girl, Miss White, who is to come here soon and sustain strictly  
scientific tests before professors at Columbia University. Mrs. Clemens  
and I intend to be present. And we shall ask the pair to come to our  
house to do whatever things they can do. Meantime, if you thought well  
of it, you might write her and arrange a meeting, telling her it is by  
my suggestion and that I gave you her address.  
Someone has told me that Mrs. Piper is discredited. I cannot be sure,  
but I think it was Mr. Myers, President of the London Psychical Research  
Society--we heard of his death yesterday. He was a spiritualist. I am  
afraid he was a very easily convinced man. We visited two mediums whom  
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