CHAPTER. 1 ORDINARY CLAIRVOYANCE, Tue following letters are sufficiently self-ex- planatory to need little or no explanation from me. Where, however, any remarks are needed, they will be made as briefly as possible. The first letter is not, strictly speaking, a “letter.” I submitted the rough notes to Mr, J. W. Sharpe, and he signed them. (No. 1.) On April 11, 1903, Mr. J. W. Sharpe, a graduate of Cambridge University (a perfect stranger), called on me and we went for a walk, the better to discuss the topic of my letter in the Darly Mail. Without any preparatory conversation I said to him, in the presence of a witness— “You know a man who is going to disinherit his son because he is going to marry a barmaid against his father’s wish,” At first Mr. Sharpe said— “No, I don't!” And then, “Oh yes, I do! But I only know the man just to speak to, and