WCP3494

[1]¹

6, DE VESCI TERRACE,

KINGSTOWN,

CO. DUBLIN.

January 18^th 1913

My dear Friend,

I did not like to add to the numerous letters of greeting you must have had on your anniversary of birth², but now perhaps I may send a line of sincere & affectionate congratulations. How [2] great a boon to humanity your long life has been, & your mind still as active & vigorous as ever. I see the Daily News³ regularly, so saw the new portrait of yourself. Two of yours are hanging in my study beside me.

We have had some [3]⁴ wonderful experiments over here with the oui-ja board⁵, the sitters absolutely blindfold[ed] & ^opaque screens in front of their eyes. Long passages spelt out with incredible swiftness; one before the Balkan war⁶, said "a small nation will rise & a great one be overthrown blood blood everywhere." Another control said "Iris Lauder", "I passed over yesterday & lived at Upper Norwood." Today [4] I hear from her father that his daughter Iris died on the very day named & lived at Upper Norwood. No one present knew this name, nor anything about Iris Lauder; her grandfather’s a spiritualist — I knew he lived in Dublin but I never heard the name ‘Iris’ nor where they lived now nor of her death.

Please give my warmest regards to your wife⁷ & daughter⁸[.]

Yours ever sincerely | W. F. Barrett⁹[signature]