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| source title = Spiritualist, The (?)
| source title = London Spiritualist
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| source details = No. 142, May 14, 1875, pp. 234-5
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| publication date = 1875-05-14
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<center>''To the Editor of “The Spiritualist.”''</center>
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{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}}, — Your readers have the opportunity afforded them this week of forming their own judgment about the Firman case, by the publication of the ''proces verbal ''signed at Dr. Huguet’s, on the one side, and the declarations of Mrs. and Mr. Firman on the other. The question is complicated and difficult, and no one can wonder that to all persons ignorant of the marvellous phenomena of “materialisation” it must seem a clear case of imposture. And yet it may be, and, after careful analysis of all the elements of the evidence, I believe that it is, nothing more than one of false appearances. That the materialisation of the dwarf Indian spirit under Firman’s mediumship is a reality and truth is made certain by the testimony of four witnesses of such superior intelligence and character as Mme. de Veh, Mrs. Watkins (her mother), Mr. Gledstanes, and Count de Bullet, who on four occasions subsequent to the Huguet scene have seen the little Indian, separate and distinct from the medium, having seen him on one occasion even rise in the air till his feather head-dress touched the ceiling, which elicited from Mr. Gledstanes the request to him to make a mark on the {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|3-11}}
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london_spiritualist_n.142_1875-05-14.pdf|page=8|London Spiritualist, No. 142, May 14, 1875, pp. 234-5
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