COINCIDENCE OR TELEPATHY
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sia,—The following story may intere3t readers who collect curious coincidences. Possibly believers in telepathy may think that it has some bearing on the case. The incident occurred this summer in my own family.
Mr. A., living in Scotland, has for some years treasured two sovereigns. Last July those coins were in a drawer in his room which was to be redecorated during the-family holiday. He remarked that they would be better elsewhere, and his daughter B. accordingly removed them to a safe place. Some weeks later B. from the Highlands sent some heather to a relative living in the south of England. This lady, in a letter of acknowledgment, said it was curious that the very night before B.'s heather arrived her maid (well known in the family) had dreamt of B.'s father, Mr. A. She dreamt that she was tidying a room just vacated by Mr. A., and found on the floor two sovereigns and two shillings. She was, in her dream, worried as to how to return the money to the owner. (Neither the dreamer nor her mistress had ever heard Mr. A.'s real sovereigns mentioned.) B., on hearing this odd fact, asked her father, now at home, whether he had by any chance been thinking of his coins. He had. On returning from his holidays he rk7rnetribered them, and quite forgetting that his daughter had secured them, spent some time in fruitless search. Further inquiry showed that dates coincided. It was on August 25th that Mr. A. searched for his sovereigns, and on the night of August 25th the distant and totally ignorant maid dreamt she had found and wished to restore them.
The two shillings, when they appear, will be claimed by the dreamer as her own invention.—I am, -Sir, &v., G. Edinburgh, September 213t,. 1926.
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