28 SEPTEMBER 1901, Page 15

(To TEE EDITOR Or TUX " SPECTAT013."1

Sta,—The coincidence of the dream related by "Z." in the Spectator of September 21st was remarkable. May I relate a similar case which occurred in 1851? In the middle of one night in March of that year the late Lord W— was awoke by his wife. She was in a state of great agitation. She told him she had just seen their son (who was in a regiment engaged in the Kaffir War) in the room, and that she was certain something dreadful had happened to him. On that day her son, who was a brother-officer of mine, was mortally wounded in an attack on a Kaffir kloof, and died in my arms about sunset. I was wounded myself some months later, and sent home, when I first heard this story from his relatives.—