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Title: Raymond, or Life and death : with examples of the evidence for survival of memory and affection after death
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940 Lodge, Raymond, 1889-1915 (Spirit)
Subjects: Spiritualism Future life
Publisher: New York : G.H. Doran
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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is completely in the open air, andRaymond is standing up in the hinder of two rows. He issecond from the left, the tall one in the middle is his friendLieutenant Case, and standing next him is Mr. Ventris(see p. 279). It is fortunate again that this photographdid not happen to be the one sent us; for we should haveconsidered the description hopelessly wrong. SUMMARYConcluding Note by O. J. L. As to the evidential value of the whole communication,it will be observed that there is something of the natureof cross-correspondence, of a simple kind, in the fact thata reference to the photograph was made through onemedium, and a description given, in answer to a question,through another independent one. The episode is to be published in the Proceedings of theS.P.R. for 1916, and a few further facts or comments arethere added. The elimination of ordinary telepathy from the living,except under the far-fetched hypothesis of the unconsciousinfluence of complete strangers, was exceptionally com-
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a H ss ■.. ^ H O £ W Itl CO h 3£ < B3- - <\ O O d a t1 25 O H » H ■* THE GROUP PHOTOGRAPH ii5 plete; inasmuch as the whole of the information wasrecorded before any of us had seen the photograph. Even the establishment of a date in August for thetaking of the photograph, as mentioned first in Mrs. Chevesletter and confirmed by finding an entry in RaymondsDiary, is important, because the last time we ever sawRaymond was in July. To my mind the whole incident is rather exceptionallygood as a piece of evidence; and that Raymond expectedit to be good evidence is plain from Peterss (Moonstones)statement, at that first reference to a photograph on 27September, namely, He is particular that I should tellyou of this. (This sentence it probably was which mademe look out for such a photograph, and take pains to getrecords soundly made beforehand.) Our complete igno-rance, even of the existence of the photograph, in the firstplace, and secondly the delayed manner in which knowledgeo

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