nditions for perfectobservation in this respect. The slates used are common school slates, selected in size, so that one will pair exactly withany other. These are either taken from a stock kept by the medium, who buys them by the gross ;or, as is frequently the case, the sitter takes his own. Book… … Fig. 15.—Method of obtaining Writing when the Slate is held by Mr. Eglinton and the Sitter. slate is taken by one of the company, cleaned, and a piece of pencil—a mere crumbabout one-sixteenth to three-sixteenths of an inch long, which is usually cut fresh from astick, and marked so as to prove…
Eglinton, William, b. 1857 · Spiritualism
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