Mr. Myers recorded regularly, and transmitted to Lord Bute, the account of the phenomena which occurred during his visit, and which were testified to by four members of his party.  He declines, however, to allow any use to be made of his notes of what occurred during this episode.

The regret with which his wish is deferred to is the less, because the chief value of the notes in question seems to be that of a warning against the methods employed; a fact of which Mr. Myers seems later to have himself become aware, as in regard to his journal letters to Lord Bute he wrote on March 15, 1898, a year later, “I am afraid that I must ask that my B——­ letters be in no way used.  I greatly doubt whether there was anything supernormal.”

However, while actually staying at B——­, Mr. Myers wrote to Miss Freer on April 15th, in much the same terms as on March 11th:—­

“What is your idea (I am asking Lord Bute also) re speaking about B——­ at S.P.R?  If this is not desirable on May 28th, should you have second-sight material ready then?  If it is desirable, could we meet sometime, ... and discuss what is to be said?  As many witnesses as possible.  Noises have gone on.  I am writing bulletins to Lord Bute, which I dare say he will send on to you....  I am moving into No. 5 to be nearer to the noise.  I have heard nothing.  Lodge hears mainly knocks.”

On April 21st he wrote again to Miss Freer:—­

“If you come to S.P.R. meeting, we could talk in a quiet corner after it.  I dine with S.P.R. council at seven o’clock, so there would scarcely be time [i.e. to call on you] between, but I would call at——­ at 9.30 Saturday morning, if that were more convenient to you than going to the meeting.”

The interview took place, and July 2nd was finally arranged as the date upon which the evidence was to be presented at a general meeting of the S.P.R.

In the meantime, however, the article of the anonymous Times correspondent appeared in that journal on June 8th—­an article which was practically an attack on certain methods of the S.P.R., after which Mr. Myers published the following letter:—­

  ON THE TRAIL OF A GHOST.

  To the Editor of “The Times."

“SIR,—­A letter entitled ‘On the Trail of a Ghost,’ which you publish to-day, appears to suggest throughout that some statement has been made on behalf of the Society for Psychical Research with regard to the house which your correspondent visited.  This, however, is not the case; and as a misleading impression may be created, I must ask you to allow me space to state that I visited B——­, representing that society, before your correspondent’s visit, and decided that there was no such evidence as could justify us in giving the results of the inquiry a place in our Proceedings.  I had already communicated this judgment to Lord Bute, to the council of the society, and to Professor Sidgwick, the editor of our Proceedings, and it had been agreed to act upon it.—­I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

     “FREDERICK W.H.  MYERS,
     Hon. Sec. of the Society for Psychical Research.