hand the slate remained suspended in its place, and in a position in which it could conveniently be written upon.  I may add that this arrangement of the slate is said to be an essential feature of Slade’s favorite method of writing.  The Medium did not fail to notice my experiment of passing the slate into the slot, and, upon the occasion of my second attendance at the “manifestations” (which was at the third meeting of the Committee), having dispensed with the table I have described and prepared another, he somewhat ostentatiously called attention to the fact that the table then produced contained no slots such as those of which I have spoken.  I have a memorandum of the size of the slots.  The dimensions of the table last referred to are given in Mr. Fullerton’s report.

(Mr. Sellers, referring again to his notes): 

Taking a slate in his hand Slade held it beneath the table leaf to his right, when almost immediately there was a succession of faintly audible sounds such as would have been made by writing on the slate under the table.  A knock indicated that the writing had ceased.  The Medium then attempted to withdraw the slate, but in this encountered a seeming resistance, and only succeeded by a jerk, as if wrenching the slate from the grasp of a strong person who was below the table.  Upon the slate, which was at once inspected, appeared in a fair, running handwriting, and as if written with a pencil held firmly in hand, the following: 

“My friends,

Look well to the truth and learn wisdom, I am truly

James Clark.”

(Continuing, without reference to notes): 

This writing differed entirely, in general appearance, from the subsequent writings upon the slate, having apparently been made with the rounded point of a pencil held in an easy and natural position for writing.  In other instances the writings had a strained and artificial appearance, and had evidently been made with a pencil point which had been flattened before being used.

Professor Thompson (to Mr. Sellers):  Do you remember that at the session of which you now speak the Medium denied having any knowledge of James Clark, and afterwards said that he did know of him?

Mr. Sellers:  I remember distinctly that he said he knew nothing of James Clark’s affairs, and that, on another day, he presented a communication from a William Clark.

(Mr. Sellers here resumed his reading from notes, as follows): 

The writing was obliterated from it and the slate again held under the table, when the question was asked, “Will you do more.”  An interval of perhaps one or two minutes elapsed when the slate was exhibited, and upon it appeared the word “Yes.”  The word had been written with a broad-ended pencil, and neither in style nor character resembled the first writing.

Mr. Sellers, complying with the Medium’s request to write a question on the back of the slate, wrote “Do you know the persons present?” The response which was made to this was “Yes, we do.”