WCP7249

[1] [p. 493]

FORMAL LETTER OF INQUIRY

Dear Sir:

Would you do me the very great favor to read the enclosed carefully prepared account of the finding of the mislaid coin, "The Widow's Mite," which has attracted during the past few weeks very wide attention in America.

The facts of the incident are given with every care I am capable of to avoid all color or suggestion from any preaccepted hypothesis. I have requested the press to withhold further comment until the facts could be sifted and passed upon by men who are qualified by their scientific or other training in exact thinking to pass judgment on the strange occurrence. Would you kindly answer some or all of the questions below, giving such expression of your views as you may desire, and return the same to me.

By so doing, you will greatly oblige

Yours most respectfully,

April 10, 1903. I. K. Funk.

[2] [p. 494]

First Question:	In view of all the facts, would you regard fraud on the part of some one as a probable solution?
Second "	Is coincidence a solution within the range of probabilities?
Third "	Is there, in your judgment, any reasonable theory of the existence of subconscious faculties that would explain all of the facts?
Fourth "	Is the hypothesis of spirit communication a possible solution?