Automatic Writing by Mrs. Kennedy, 26 September
On 26 September Mrs. Kennedy (alone) had a lot of automatic writing, with her own hand, mainly from Paul, who presently wrote, "Mother, I have been let to bring Raymond."
(After a welcome, Raymond was represented as sending this message:—)
"I can speak easier than I could at the table, because you are helping all the time. It is easy when we are alone with you, but if I go there it confuses me a little.... I long to comfort them. Will you tell them that Raymond had been to you, and that Paul tells me I can come to you whenever I like? It is so good of you to let the boys all come...."
"Paul tells me he has been here since he was seventeen; he is a jolly chap; every one seems fond of him. I don't wonder, for he helps every one. It seems a rule to call Paul if you get in a fix."
(Then Paul said he was back, and wrote:—)
"He is quite happy really since he finds he can get to his people. He has slept ever since last night, till I was told to fetch him to-night."
(Asked about the French boys, Paul said:—)
"I saw them when I brought them, but I don't see them otherwise; they are older than I am ... they hardly believe it yet that they have spoken. All the time they felt it was impossible, and they nearly gave it up, but I kept on begging them to tell their mother they lived."
"I do hope she felt it true, mother...."