[Ghosts in the nineteen-thirties.] Typewritten reminiscences of three ghostly experiences ('three happenings in my life'), in Mimms in Hertfordshire, Folkestone in Kent, and Castle Bromwich in Warwickshire.

3pp., 8vo. Typescript with a few manuscript emendations, and manuscript note at end attributing the piece to 'C. Campbell' in another hand. On the rectos of three leaves, pinned together. In fair condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. The first of the three stories is said to have occurred nearly fifty years before, the narrator stating that he was 'then between thirteen and fourteen years of age', which would put him in his early sixties at the time of writing. The document begins: 'A little party of eight, myself, my wife, three business friends and their wives, spending an evening together, cards had finished, and conversation ranged on various subjects, when someone asked, "Do you believe in Ghosts?" The majority agreed there were no such things, and that the alleged strange happenings you heard of occasionally, were etiher peoples imagination, or if not, someone playing the fool. | Neither myself or my wife had joined in the conversation, until I was asked directly, "Well, what about Ghosts, - do you believe in them?" I told them that even now I would not commit myself, but that I had had three happenings in my life, and if they cared to hear the stories, would tell them to them, and if they could see any loop-holes for imagination or fooling, should be glad if they would point them out to me.' The first story concerns 'something weird and unearthly that appeared to rise from the very ground' in front of the teenage narrator and his uncle in Mimms. The second story describes the apparition of presence, 'just as if someone was coming along in loosely fitting bedroom slippers', 'off the Dover road across the foot of the Downs, on to the Canterbury Road, about a mile up from where Folkestone ended'. In the last story, set in a large bungalow fifteen or twenty miles from Castle Bromwich, the narrator is informed by a ghostly voice of his children's impromptu ride in an areoplane. The document concludes: 'Now, can you explain how I should have known all this? | These are my three experiences, none of which would I care to go through again. | You still ask me, "Do I believe in Ghosts." I have told you my stories. My wife, who is here in the room with us, has shared in a great part of them. Every word I have told you is true. | You may, on thinking it over, decideit is all imagination, but do not forget, in the last story, the Dog. | Good-night.'