“Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane,
“Dear Madam:
“I inclose a cutting from one of our local papers, purporting to be an interview with you in regard to the subject of Spiritualism. I have taken the liberty to inquire of you if the statements therein contained are true.
“I have been a believer in the phenomena from its first inception through you and your sister, believing it to be true since that time.
“I am now eighty-one years old and have but a short time, of course, to remain in this world, and I feel great anxiety to know through you if I have been deceived all this time in a matter of vital interest to us all.
“Will you greatly oblige me with an answer?
“Very respectfully yours,
“E. F. Bunnell.
“No. 319 Kearny St.”
And here is a communication which is signed by what is evidently only a part of the writer’s name, but which carries with it in every line the absolute impress of truth and of a deep and pathetic earnestness:
“Boston, Mass., Oct. 15, 1888.
“Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane,