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Staunton Ills Jan 16th 1860 Dear Son you have no doubt been looking for a line from us I will now try to write though seems to be but of interest to write about we have circles four five times per week of evenings mostly there is one clevoyant medium here he was at our house his inner eyes were opened and he saw and described Mae Mother and described her as standing at the spring and Eugean standing or stooping [beside?] her she had a black snake whip [drawn?] over his back the childs owned to frighttened at the time so much as to unballance his mind the spirit that showed the scene to his spirit vision evidently meant to infer that on the first cause of his fits had scribed the direction of her spring from the house and [the direction?]