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October 29th, 1915
Received by:James Padgett
Washington D.C.
I am here, Peter D. Buerly:
I am the spirit of your old schoolboy days, Peter D. Buerly. I
have been here several times when you were writing, and have been
much interested in what I saw and heard, and when Cousin Sally came
last night and wrote and recalled old times, I felt that I wanted
to write also, so I am trying.
As you may have heard, in the long years after we left school I
became quite a dissipated man, given to drink and other things that
I need not mention, and continued these habits up to the day of
my death. I caused Nannie much unhappiness, and, in fact, almost
broke her heart, for she was a mild, loving girl, and my treatment
of her was such as to give her many weary and suffering hours of
anguish. Oh, how I have repented for this since I came into the
spirit world, and how I have suffered and undergone many, many years
of darkness. But repentance was earnest, and I am commencing to
see the light. And, besides, since she came over she has been with
me and forgiven me all my harsh words and neglect and bad treatment
of her. So you see, there is nothing in the world like the pure,
forgiving love of a noble and sympathetic woman - and she was such.
We do not live together for she is a much purer and elevated spirit
than I am, but she comes to me and tries to cheer and encourage
me with her love and beautiful words of promise.
She is, she says, in the third sphere, where, she tells me, much
happiness is; while I am in the earth plane yet, but in a much brighter
condition than when I first came over.
But, I want to express my surprise that you can receive communications
from spirits as you do. I don't quite understand it. When on earth
I never knew anything about such phenomena, and I have only recently
heard of your being so close to us and so easy to communicate with.
I wish that I could get with my Nannie, for there I know I would
be so happy. Some of these spirits say that you can help the spirits
in these lower planes, and if that is so I would like for you to
help me.
Well, I have looked, and I see a number of very beautiful spirits,
but do not know any of them, and I wonder who they are. I have done
so, and, I'll be damned, if there ain't Prof. Salyards. Why, what
does it mean? Well, he has come to me and shaken my hand, and says
that he is very glad to see me, and wants me to go with him. He
has introduced me to a beautiful spirit, who, he says, is your wife.
What beauty and love! You must be glad to have such a wife.
I have told her, and she says she is so glad to meet me, and that
she wants me to go with her after the Prof. has finished his conversation,
and I am going with her. But, tell me, what does it all mean? I
can't understand
I must stop - goodnight,
Peter D. Buerly
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