Dr. Leidy asked the question:  “Is any Spirit present?”

Ans.  Three raps.

Dr. Leidy:  “Will you confer with the man to left of the Medium?”

Ans.  Two raps. (No.)

Dr. Leidy:  “To the right?”

Ans.  Three raps.

Professor Thompson (who was the person indicated):  “Is the Spirit male?”

Ans.  Three raps.

“Will it answer to the alphabet?”

Three raps.  The alphabet was called and “Henry Seybert” spelled out.

Mr. Sellers:  “Will Henry Seybert make the raps at this end of the table?”

Ans.  No.

“Is he satisfied with the Commission?”

Five raps were given for the alphabet; Professor Thompson called it; raps spelled out: 

“I will be satisfied before the investigation is through.”

Mr. Sellers:  “Does Mr. Seybert know the names of the Commission?”

Ans.  Three raps.

“Does he know who is now speaking?”

Three raps.

Mr. Sellers then pointed to the letters of the alphabet, which he had written in order on a sheet of paper, and raps spelled out: 

CHARLES CERI.

Mrs. Kane then tried standing at some distance from the table, with her hands on the back of a chair; there were some raps seemingly near or under the Medium.

Raps were produced as members of the Committee stood with the Medium around the desk in the library, and close to a book-case.  Raps were produced according to the Medium on the glass door of a book-case, upon which Mr. Sellers placed his hand.  Mr. Sellers felt no vibration on the glass, but raps were heard somewhere in the vicinity.

The Committee then returned to the dining-room and the Medium wrote upon a sheet of paper the following: 

“Friend Pepper:  I am happy to meet you here to-night.  I have not forgotten my promise to you, Henry Seybert.”

The paper had to be held to the light and read from the obverse side, as the message was written from right to left.

Mr. Geo. Pepper:  “Do you remember the year in which you made the promise?”

The answer given in same way was:  “It was in the year in which my Spirit left the body.  H.S.  Call the alphabet, H.S.”

Dr. Pepper called the alphabet—­the sentence “Let Friend Pepper call the alphabet” was rapped out.  Mr. Geo. Pepper called the alphabet:  the letters HAND were rapped out, and the communication ceased.

The Medium wrote then as before:  “Friend Pepper, meet me again.”

It was asked whether Mr. Seybert would meet us on the next evening?

Ans.  Three raps.

The Committee adjourned at 9.30 o’clock to meet again at 8 o’clock on the next evening at the same place.

GEO. S. FULLERTON.

Secretary.

The following stenographic report of the meeting of November 6th, 1884, has been read and approved by the Commission before being entered upon this book.