"Thinking I should be better able to throw off the impression of my dream if I told it, I mentioned it to my family, and my husband recommended a short walk. In consequence, and quite contrary to my custom, I arranged to take my children for a short walk without their nurse accompanying me, and as their favourite walk was up Nightingale Lane (Holland Lane), past another lane enclosed by the high walls of Argyll Lodge, the residence of the Duke of Argyll, I agreed to take them there, and when we arrived at Argyll Lodge, what was my horror to see on the roof of the coach-house the very monkey of my dreams! In my surprise and terror I clasped my hands and exclaimed, much to the amazement of a coachman waiting outside, 'My dream! my dream!'

"This I suppose attracted the attention of the monkey and he began to come after us, he on the top of the wall, we beneath, every minute I expecting he would jump upon me, and having precisely the same terror I experienced in my dream. One of my children being very young, we could not go fast, which added to my distress, but we succeeded in escaping it, and on my return home I sent a servant to inquire if a monkey had been seen there, for my state of nervousness was extreme. She was informed that that morning a rare and very valuable monkey belonging to the duchess had got loose, and so the incident was explained. But my dreaming of it previously remains unexplained."

(Signed by Mrs. C.)

In a subsequent letter dated 2nd March, 1888, Mrs. C. writes:-

"The 'monkey dream' was told to at least six persons before I went for my walk, and my children still remember my terror and the 'peculiar monkey' which followed us."

Mrs. C. also states that the dream occurred in 1867, and sends letters of corroboration from her husband and her nurse, which are given below.

"F. W. H. Myers, Esq., "Dear Sir,

"I have seen my wife's correspondence with you, and I fully confirm the facts as she has stated them. - Yours very faithfully."

(Signed by Mr. C.)

Statement written by Mrs. C's nurse.

"Holland Road, "3rd March, 1888

"Caroline M., Mrs. C's nurse, remembers two dreams (i.e. this and another sent but not printed here) which her mistress told her when she went to her room in the morning. She remembers both dreams coming true."

The Marquis of Lorne informed me that a monkey was in fact kept in the stables of Argyll Lodge at and after the date here somewhat vaguely indicated.

The following is a case where the percipient is well known to me:-

Statement by Colonel K. Coghill: -

"April, 1894.

"A curious case occurred to me last month, though it may be but a coincidence not worth recounting. On 28th March I received a letter from a lady, with whom I had not been in correspondence for about a year, stating that on the 26th she had either a vision or a dream (I forget the expression) that she saw me in a very dangerous position under a horse, from which many people were trying to relieve me. By return of post I wrote that 1 thought it a dream which was proved by contraries, as nothing of the sort had occurred. That afternoon I received notice of a last 'off day' with our pack of hounds, and the next morning on my way to covert I posted my letter. At the finish of a long run in the afternoon, my horse, pulling double down a steep hill, was unable to collect himself for a big bank at the bottom of the hill, breasted it, and fell head over heels into a deep and broad drop ditch on the far side, with me underneath him. His head and shoulders were at the bottom and legs remained up on the landing side of the ditch. Many of the field dismounted, and after some minutes pulled the horse away, and got me from under, more or less stunned, but little the worse, except a few face cuts, the loss of a tooth, and a crushed stirrup, and the horse with a few head cuts.

The horse was about my best hunter, and never before guilty of such a thing, though, of course, it may have been but a hunting - field coincidence.

"Kendal Coghill."

The letter in which the lady in question (the Hon. Mrs. Leir-Carleton) relates her dream, is unfortunately lost, but Sir Joseph Coghill writes:-

"Glen Barrabane, "Castle Townsend, 3rd May, 1894.

"On the 29th March last, my brother, Colonel Coghill, C.B., showed me a portion of a letter just received from a lady who wrote describing a dream or vision in which she had seen him meet with a serious accident from a horse, and she noticed a crowd of persons assisting him away.

"J. L. Coghill."

Colonel Coghill writes by return of post, after the receipt of the letter relating the dream, but before the accident as follows:-

"Cosheen, Castle Townsend, Co. Cork, "Wednesday, 28th March.

"My Dear Mrs. Carleton,

"Need I say how delighted I was to see your handwriting this morning, and how happy I am to say that your dream has so far proved the rule of going by 'contraries' for I never in my life was going stronger than I am at present."

Writing again on the 31st March, the day after the accident, Colonel Coghill says:-

"My Dear Mrs. Carleton,

"You win, hands down. There are two grounds on which we, your friends, have to thank ourselves that you belong to the last half of this century - first that we can enjoy your existence and friendship, and secondly, that had you lived earlier you might have been burned as a witch, for by your dream you foretold a grief to me, though in prospective. Yesterday I enjoyed the imperial crowner which you saw in your dream, the hardest fall I have had for very many years. It was the last day of our hunt, and I wanted to give a finishing touch to the education of my young horse. I began the day badly by being on the wrong side of the wood when they broke away, and while riding hard to overtake them I topped a bank and found a chasm too big, so we dropped a crumpler, but I got off with a broken spur and bent stirrup. After I had overtaken my field, I was pelting down a hill faster than I wanted, and met a stiff bank at the bottom with a broad ditch and a drop on the landing side. The young savage couldn't collect himself in time and struck the bank above his knees. Tableau - six legs in the air; 2nd view - a man in the ditch with horse on top of his (the man's) head.