First published in 1869, this book describes the spiritualist activity of Scottish-born Daniel Dunglas Home (1833 86), who emerged as a medium in the United States in the wake of the Fox sisters' alleged 'spirit rappings' in the mid-nineteenth century. Written by the Irish journalist and politician Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, Lord Adare (1841 1926), who befriended Home in 1867, the book records Adare's observations of seventy-eight spiritualist sittings over two years, and reports verbatim the conversations between Home and the spirits with whom he was allegedly in contact. Adare also...
First published in 1869, this book describes the spiritualist activity of Scottish-born Daniel Dunglas Home (1833 86), who emerged as a medium in the ...