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Title: The Davenport brothers
Year: 1869 (1860s)
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Subjects: Davenport, Ira Erastus, b. 1839. (from old catalog) Davenport, William Henry, b. 1841. (from old catalog) Spiritualism
Publisher: Boston, W. White and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the palace. On the following day, the emperor marked his furtherappreciation of the exhibition by sending to the Davenportparty an unusually munificent gift for their services. CHAPTER XXIX. In December, the brothers returned to London. Eitherthe prestige of their visit to St. Cloud, or the sober secondthought of a people who had temporarily allowed themselvesto become duped by tricksters, bullied by mobs, and tempo-rarily ridiculed out of their native love of justice and fairplay by conceited and popularity-hunting journalists, hadprepared for them a most cordial reception. On their re-ap-pearance at the Hanover-square Rooms, they were greetedby a large, respectable, and harmonious audience, the mani-festations increasing in power and variety during their fiveseances, three arms appearing at intervals, and a large num-ber of hands being shown. At one time, while the flourtest was on, a gentleman in black kid gloves mounted theplatform, and either seized, or was seized by, one of the
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TOUR THROUGH IRELAND AND SCOTLAND. 413 hands, being held fast for several minutes; appearing in anagony of pain from the grip. When he was released, someone called out, Is there any flour on your gloves ? Helooked, but not a particle of dust could be seen. In January, 1866, accompanied by Mr. Robert Cooper,then proprietor of The London Spiritual Tiines, and azealous spiritualist, the Davenports made a tour throughIreland and Scotland, successively visiting Dublin, Belfast,Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and many other places in Ire-land ; thence to Edinburgh, Glasgow, and some of thesmaller towns of Scotland. Everywhere the phenomenaexcited intense interest, the audiences always increasing asthe seances proceeded, being composed, as a general fact,of the most respectable classes. The only display of rowdy-ism during this tour was made by a party of English offi-cers at Waterford. The press of Ireland and Scotland treated the mediumsand the phenomena with remarkable fairness. Their opin-ion

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