" N. COBURN."

" Upper Melbourne, "Quebec, 4th September 1893.

"Richard Hodgson, LL.D., "Dear Sir,

"My wife, to whom I related my dream before the drowning took place, died a few months after I wrote you.

"You will pardon me, if I give you an explanation of the dream and drowning. I should have said that the young man had just come to visit friends on the opposite side of the river, and you will notice my rough diagram herewith, that the R. R. station of the G. T. R. is below where I live, and the young man arrived about 1.30 a.m. (say midnight), and was obliged to walk back up the river on the opposite side from where I lived, and I feel sure that the time of my dream was when he was passing up (say 2 a.m.) on the opposite side of the river. He went to bed at his friend's and did not get up until late, and immediately went to the river with some other young men for a bath and swim.

"Newlands Coburn."

From Thomas Carbert, porter at Escrick station, through Lord Wenlock, Escrick Park, York:-

"At the end of February or beginning of March, 1883, I dreamt I saw Mr. Thompson, the station master, lying with his legs cut off, close to a heap of coals against a small cabin at the back of the station. I dreamt that the accident happened to him by what we call the ' pick-up' goods train, and that it occurred in the month of May.

"I told my dream to Mr. Thompson the next morning, and, though he laughed over it, it seemed to make him uneasy.

"On the 18th May, 1883, Mr. Thompson was run over by the 'pick-up' goods train, and both his legs were cut off.

"The accident happened at the back of the cabin, just where I dreamt I had seen him lying."

"I have taken this down from the lips of the above - named Thomas Carbert. Wenlock. 14th February, 1884."

Further inquiry had much improved the evidence in this case. Thomas Carbert, who has now been moved to Rillington, writes under date 7th October, 1895: - "I did dream it, and told Mr. Thompson of it, and he told Mr. Hart as Foxton of it the same morning. Mr. Thompson said it was three months to May yet. As to what made me say it would happen in May, something seemed to say it would be in May in my dream."

Mr. Foxton also writes as follows from The Grange, Escrick, 12th October, 1895:-

"Dear Sir,

"The incident you mention is vividly impressed upon my memory. One morning upon my arrival at Escrick station to catch the 8 train, Thompson and Carbert were together in the booking-office, and after the customary greeting Thompson said to me, "Master (he always called me ' Master'), what do you think Carbert here has been telling me? He had a dream last night, and that I have only so long to live (mentioning the time, either two months or three). I replied, Why, if you have only that time to live you must make the very best use of it; at the same time, if you know your days are numbered, you may still have longer to live than some of us This, of course, I said half in jest, and the train coming in the incident ended But I noticed particularly that Carbert seemed quite downhearted and distressed when Thompson was relating the dream to me, and 1 must say it made some indefinable impression upon me, so much so that when I heard of the accident to Thompson, the dream and its ending flashed vividly back to me.

"You are at liberty to make use of this letter in any way you choose, either publicly or privately.

"Hartas Foxton."

Received through the Rev. C. H. Cope, from Miss

I. Young. The account was written in the early part of 1892: -

"British Institute,

"26 Rue de Vienne, Brussels.

"In the morning of Friday, 29th March, 1889, after being awakened at my usual hour for rising, I went to sleep again, and dreamt the following: I was staying with a friend, Mrs. O - and it was by the seaside; the house overlooked the sea, the waves nearly wash ing against the garden wall. It was a bright clear day and 1 was standing close to the wall, watching in the distance two vessels on the sea, one having left the place I was at, and the other advancing from the opposite shore. To my surprise I saw that neither vessel, as they neared each other, seemed to make room for the other, and then to my horror one dashed into the other, cutting her in half. I saw the boiler burst of the injured vessel, throw up fragments and thick black smoke; I saw the passengers hurled into the water making frantic attempts to save themselves. I especially noticed hats and other things floating on the water, and then suddenly two bodies were washed up at my feet, and I awoke and found it was nearly 8'30 a.m. The dream made a vivid impression on me, and I could not shake off the feeling of horror I had experienced all through it.

That same afternoon news came from Ostend of a terrible catastrophe in the Channel, the two vessels, Princess Henriette and Josephine, crossing via Ostend and Dover, had come into collision that same morning at 10 A.M., the one had cut the other in half just as I had seen it in my dream; indeed, the circumstances were the same, I knew no one on board, but the lady with whom, in my dream, I was staying, had three relatives on board; one was drowned and the other two saved.

"ISABELLA YOUNG"

The friend with whom Miss Young was staying at the time, Mrs. C. E. Jenkins, writes:-

"I certify that the above mentioned dream was related to me about an hour after she had dreamt it, by Miss Young.

"M. G. Jenkins."

In answer to a further question, Mrs. Jenkins writes:-

" British Institute, " 26, Rue de Vienne, Brussels, "3rdMay, 1892.

"Dear Sir,

"In answer to your card to Mr. Cope, forwarded to me this morning, I beg to confirm that Miss I. G. Young related her dream to me about the collision before we had heard anything of it, and that the news came that afternoon.

"Meliora G. Jenkins, "Hon. Lady Superintendent, "British Institute, Brussels"