Note 26 — Chapter VI · SOME RECENTLY OBSERVED PSYCHICAL PHENOMENA

The following is Dr. Maxwell’s detailed report of this incident as contained in a letter to Professor Richet:—

‘... There was nothing we might say but twaddle in the writing which followed, e.g. expressions of pleasure on the part of H. B. in that he was able to communicate with me, his long efforts to reach me, etc., when suddenly, at 5.30, without any rhyme or reason, so to say, our medium wrote (always under the influence of the H. B. personification): “Offer me some brandy and water....” Now, during fifty years H. B. had not been known to miss taking a glass of brandy and water every afternoon at half-past five. He was not in the habit of taking this concoction at other hours of the day; so that the coincidence is, to say the least, striking and curious....’