The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism

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Author

Underhill, A. Leah (Ann Leah), 1814-1890

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Produced by Suzanne Shell, eagkw and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

Subject

Fox family

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eBook-No.

40485

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40485

Release Date

August 13, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Missing Link IN MODERN SPIRITUALISM.
2. 2.EDITOR’S PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
5. 5.INTRODUCTION. — THE MISSING LINK IN MODERN SPIRITUALISM .
6. 6.CHAPTER I. HYDESVILLE. — CERTIFICATE OF MRS. MARGARET FOX, WIFE OF JOHN D. FOX, THE OCCUPANT OF THE HOUSE. — STATEMENT OF JOHN D. FOX. — STATEMENT OF WILLIAM DUESLER. — STATEMENT OF MISS LUCRETIA PULVER. — MRS. ANNA PULVER. — THE WELL OFFENSIVE. — STATEMENT OF DAVID S. FOX.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. HYDESVILLE ( Continued ).
8. 8.CHAPTER III. ROCHESTER
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. ROCHESTER ( Continued ).
10. 10.CHAPTER V. ROCHESTER ( Continued ), November , 1848.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. MEDIUMISTIC VEIN IN OUR FAMILY. — MY AUNT ELIZABETH’S VISION OF HER OWN TOMBSTONE. — PROPHETIC CLAIRVOYANCE. — BROTHER DAVID. — UNCLE JOHN. — MR. COOK’S DEATH. — STRANGE OCCURRENCES PRIOR TO GRANDFATHER’S DEATH. — MY OWN CHILDREN. — MUSICAL MEDIUMSHIP.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. MEDIUMISTIC VEIN IN OUR FAMILY ( Continued ). — MARVELLOUS WRITING BY A BABY MEDIUM. — OUR MOTHER AND FATHER.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. ROCHESTER ( Continued ). — LETTER FROM GEORGE WILLETS. — “THE RAPPING MYSTERY.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. ALBANY AND TROY. 1850. — EXCURSION TO ALBANY. — EXCURSION TO TROY.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. NEW YORK. 1850. — FIRST VISIT TO NEW YORK.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. RETURN TO ROCHESTER. — LETTER FROM JOHN E. ROBINSON. — JOHN E. ROBINSON. — ARTICLE FROM A NEW YORK SUNDAY NEWSPAPER. — ARTICLE FROM THE N. Y. DAY-BOOK BY ITS EDITOR, R. N. SIMPSON. — LETTER FROM DR. C. D. GRISWOLD, M.D. — LETTER FROM JACOB C. CUYLER. — ARTICLE BY HORACE GREELEY, PUBLISHED IN THE TRIBUNE. — A POEM.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. BUFFALO. 1850-51.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. BUFFALO ( Continued ). — A MEETING AT THE PHELPS HOUSE. — SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATION. — “THE PROFESSORS AND THE ‘KNOCKINGS.’
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. BUFFALO ( Continued. ) — LETTER FROM JOHN E. ROBINSON. — LETTER FROM WELCOME WHITTAKER. — LETTER FROM JOHN E. ROBINSON.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. EXTRACTS FROM D. M. DEWEY’S HISTORY. — LETTER FROM REV. CHARLES HAMMOND. — LETTER OF JOHN E. ROBINSON.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS CONNECTED WITH THE OHIO CAMPAIGN. — N. S. WHEELER. — CHILLICOTHE COMMITTEE. — CHARLES F. WHIPPO. — M. L. WRIGHT. — D. A. EDDY. — EXTRACTS FROM THE PRESS. — FROM THE CINCINNATI NONPAREIL. — “‘A CARD TO THE PUBLIC. — COLUMBUS COMMITTEE. — M. L. WRIGHT. — INTERESTING LETTER FROM MRS. AMY POST. — DOINGS AT THE DUNHAM—THE PHILOSOPHY OF SPIRITUALISM AS RAPPED OUT BY DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. NEW YORK CITY, FROM JANUARY, 1852. — COURSES OF TEST EXPERIMENTATION. — PRIVATE CIRCLE FOR MEETINGS ON MONDAY EVENINGS. — RULES OF SÉANCES.
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. NEW YORK CITY ( Continued ). — DISCOMFITURE OF ANDERSON, “THE WIZARD OF THE NORTH.” — REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE WITH A ONCE VERY NOTORIOUS PERSON.
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. PHOSPHORUS. — STATEMENT OF DANIEL UNDERHILL. — ANOTHER STATEMENT FROM D. UNDERHILL.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. BOSTON AND THE HARVARD PROFESSORS, 1857. — THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. BOSTON AND THE HARVARD PROFESSORS ( Continued ). — “SECOND SESSION.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. ROBERT DALE OWEN AND PROFESSOR FELTON, PRESIDENT OF HARVARD COLLEGE.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. EXPERIENCES OF ROBERT DALE OWEN THROUGH THE MEDIUMSHIP OF THE AUTHOR. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — CRUCIAL TEST, — A HEAVY DINNER-TABLE SUSPENDED IN THE AIR WITHOUT CONTACT.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV. EXPERIENCES OF THE AUTHOR WITH ROBERT DALE OWEN ( Continued ). — V. — A GHOST SPEAKS.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI. SPIRIT CURES—MR. CAPRON’S WIFE. — I. — II. — III.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII. MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS. — J. HEDDON. — S. CHAMBERLAIN. — JOHN E. ROBINSON. — A. UNDERHILL. — GEORGE LEE, M.D. — JOHN E. ROBINSON. — SAME.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII. MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS ( Continued ). — JOHN E. ROBINSON. — GOVERNOR N. P. TALLMADGE. — PAULINE W. DAVIS. — SAME. — JOHN E. ROBINSON.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON MEDIUMSHIP.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXX. MISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS. — FELICIA HEMANS—SPIRIT DICTATION OF MUSIC. — HAUNTED GROUND. — THE HAUNTED GROUND.—MRS. HEMANS.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI. MISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS ( Continued ). — CROWD OF SPIRITS MADE VISIBLE BY LIGHTNING. — SCARCELY CREDIBLE, BUT TRUE. — A GAME OF EUCHRE. — MARGARETTA’S DREAM. — MISTAKEN NAMES CORRECTED BY SPIRITS. — AN UNWILLING CONVERT MADE HAPPY AND GRATEFUL. — A SPIRIT KNOWS BETTER THAN THE POSTMASTER. — OPENING OF A COMBINATION LOCK. — A VISITOR MAGNETIZED INTO A MEDIUM HIMSELF. — CURIOUS STORY ABOUT A MUTILATED LIMB. — DISTURBANCES IN THE TROUP STREET COTTAGE. — A CAUTION AGAINST CRUELTY TO ORPHAN CHILDREN. — MRS. HOPPER’S MYSTERIOUS END. — “TOUCH SAMANTHA.” — “I FEEL MY HANDKERCHER TIED TIGHTER EVERY MINIT.” — “NO BRIMSTONE YET.” — KITCHEN WORK BY NIGHT. — “SICH A GETTIN’ UP STAIRS.” — THE DEATH OF ISAAC T. HOPPER. — WILLIAM M. THACKERAY. — “WITCH STORIES.” — I. — II. — GEORGE THOMPSON. — A CHILD’S LETTER. — EXTRACTS FROM DANIEL UNDERHILL’S MINUTE BOOK, BEARING DATE JUNE 5, 1862. — EXTRACT FROM COMMUNICATION PURPORTING TO COME FROM D. UNDERHILL’S FATHER. — PRACTICAL JOKES PERFORMED AND REBUKED. — A PROPHETIC DREAM. — JAMES A. GARFIELD.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII. ACTION OF SPIRITS THROUGH THE MEDIUMSHIP OF A FIVE-MONTH’S-OLD INFANT. — MEDIUMSHIP OF A BABY. — SPIRIT WRITING.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIII. “THE MISSING LINK.” — “THE ORIGIN OF THE SOUL. — “THE BENEFICENCE OF SUFFERING.
39. 39.FINALE. — PRAYER.

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