The upper row of Fig. 69 shows the various shades of brown, associated with different pronunciations of the letter A, as in “fame,” “can,” “charm,” and “all” respectively.  The second, third and fourth rows similarly refer to the various pronunciations of the other vowels.  Then follow the letters of the alphabet, grouped according to the character of the appearance they suggest.  After these come the numerals.  Then I give three lines of words such as they appear to him.  The first is my own name, the second is “London,” and the third is “Visualisation.”  Proceeding conversely, Dr. Key collected scraps of various patterns of wall paper, and sent them together with the word that the colour of the several patterns suggested to him.  Specimens of these are shown in the three bottom lines of the Fig.  I have gone through the whole of them with care, together with his descriptions and reasons, and can quite understand his meaning, and how exceedingly complex and refined these associations are.  The patterns are to him like words in poetry, which call up associations that any substituted word of a like dictionary meaning would fail to do.  It would not, for example, be possible to print words by the use of counters coloured like those in Fig. 69, because the tint of each influences that of its neighbours.  It must be understood that my remarks, though based on Dr. Key’s diagrams and statements as on a text, do not depend, by any means, wholly upon them, but on numerous other letters from various quarters to the same effect.  At the same time I should say that Dr. Key’s elaborate drawings and ample explanations, to which I am totally unable to do justice in a moderate space, are the most full and striking of any I have received.  His illustrations are on a large scale, and are ingeniously arranged so as to express his meaning.

Persons who have colour associations are unsparingly critical.  To ordinary individuals one of these accounts seems just as wild and lunatic as another, but when the account of one seer is submitted to another seer, who is sure to see the colours in a different way, the latter is scandalised and almost angry at the heresy of the former.  I submitted this very account of Dr. Key to a lady, the wife of an ex-governor of one of the most important British possessions, who has vivid colour associations of her own, and who, I had some reason to think, might have personal acquaintance with the locality where Dr. Key lives.  She could not comprehend his account at all, his colours were so entirely different to those that she herself saw.

I have now completed as much as I propose to say about the quaint phenomena of Visualised Forms of numbers and of dates, and of coloured associations with letters.  I shall not extend my remarks to such subjects as a musician hearing mental music, of which I have many cases, nor to fancies concerning the other senses, as none of these are so noteworthy.  I am conscious that the reader may desire even more assurance of