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(As usual I handed Jane the standard sealed double envelope containing my drawing of the symbol shown on page 95. [...] Momentarily, she laid her left hand flat upon the envelope. This is the 18th envelope test.)

(The 18th envelope test was held during the session. The test object is simply a drawing in black ink of the same symbol used in the first envelope test, of August 18,1965, in the 179th session. [...]

(Tracing of the envelope front used in the 19th envelope test, in the 213th session for December 1,1965.)

(See the tracing of the envelope object on page 171. [...] I opened up the match folder and removed the matches, then sealed it in the usual double envelope. [...]

(The 55th envelope experiment was held during the session. [...]

Now, do you have an envelope for me?

(The 59th envelope experiment used as object a tag that had been attached to a rifle we had bought in October 1962. [...] The object was sealed in the usual double envelopes, between the usual two pieces of Bristol. [...]

Do you have an envelope for me?

[...] Jane paused at 10:12, then took the envelope for our 59th experiment from me without opening her eyes. [...]

(This afternoon I made up the usual double test envelope, including a pair of Bristol stiffeners. The envelopes contained a black and white photo of York Beach, ME, taken there last summer, that is the summer of 1964. [...]

(This is the 14th envelope test. Jane took the envelope without opening her eyes, as usual, and sat quietly for a moment while holding it in both hands, without bending it, etc. [...]

(I wasn’t decided whether to ask Jane to hold an envelope test. [...]

[...] We have noticed this curious time jump before in the envelope experiments, backwards as it were. Jane possessed strong emotional memories regarding the funeral, and clairvoyant knowledge of the envelope object in some form; evidently Seth responded to, or deliberately chose, what he perceived as the stronger intensities pertaining to Aunt Ella’s funeral over the object itself.

[...] In order to get the object inside the first of the two envelopes I had to flatten it out. [...] After the experiment I had to tape it to a sheet of paper in order to preserve it for the notebook in which we keep our envelope objects.

(The 47th envelope experiment was held during the session, as noted by the tracing on page 91. [...]

(The 44th envelope experiment was held during the session. [...] I placed them between two pieces of Bristol and sealed them in the usual double envelope.

Do you have an envelope for me, Joseph?

[...] Without opening her eyes she took the envelope for our 44th experiment from me, and pressed it to her forehead.)

(Jane reached out to take the usual double envelope from me. [...] She sat quietly holding the envelope in one hand, with the other raised to her face. [...] This is our 21st envelope test.)

(The 21st envelope test was held during the session. The test object sealed in the usual double envelopes was a woodblock print, made by an artist friend of ours, Roy C. Fox, and enclosed with Roy’s Christmas card of last Christmas. [...]

[...] As it developed in our envelope test tonight, this could be true. [...] In this specific case also, clairvoyance enters in, since the envelope test had not been held yet. [...]

[...] As usual Jane took the experimental envelope, the 31st, from me without opening her eyes. We had decided to call these studies envelope experimentsinstead of tests. Now Jane sat quietly for a moment; she held the envelope to her forehead as she spoke briefly, then lowered it to her lap.)

(The 31st envelope experiment was held during the session. [...]

(I folded the object once, placed it between the usual two pieces of Bristol and sealed it in the usual double envelope.

(I had prepared the usual test envelope that Wednesday afternoon while Jane was napping, as she usually does on session days. When the session did not materialize I saved the envelope for the next session, which I thought would be on Monday, September 6.

(Much was said before the envelope test developed, and this is summarized in Part Two. [...] I replied that I had and went back to my studio to get the envelope I had readied for last Wednesday’s session, and my pen and notebook. [...]

(Tonight’s unscheduled session is arbitrarily divided into two parts in order to present the envelope test data first. [...]

(I had prepared the usual double test envelope earlier in the day, but doubted it would be used if Jane was not in a good mood for the session. [...] I sandwiched this paper between two pieces of bristol board to prevent identification by touch, and slipped the assemblage into the usual two envelopes.

[...] I fished the envelope out and handed it to her. [...]

[...] During the whole passage, she sat almost without moving, holding the test envelope almost motionless in her right hand. [...]

(The envelope object for the 69th experiment was a colored postcard sent to us by Barbara Ingold, our neighbor who lives below us on the first floor. [...] As usual I placed it between two pieces of Bristol then sealed it in double envelopes.

Do you have an envelope for me?

(At 10:06 Jane took the sealed envelope from me for the 69th experiment. [...]

[...] I handed Jane the envelope for our 30th envelope experiment, and as usual she took it without opening her eyes. She sat with the envelope held against her forehead.)

(The 30th envelope test was held during the session. I cut out ten small pieces of colored construction paper, put them between the usual two pieces of Bristol board and sealed them in the usual double envelope. [...]

[...] Most of the time Jane sat with her head down and her hands raised to her face, as during the Instream and envelope tests.

(The 52nd envelope experiment was held. [...] I used the two pieces of Bristol board and the two envelopes as usual in preparing it for the experiment.

(See the copy of the envelope object on page 142. [...] It was folded once before going into the sealed double envelope. [...]

Do you have an envelope for me?

(The 76th envelope experiment was held tonight. [...] Suffice it to say here that I did not see the object until Jane opened the usual double-sealed envelopes after giving the data. [...]

(Jane took from me the sealed double envelopes for our 76th experiment. [...] Smiling broadly she slapped my hand with the envelope, and paced back and forth briefly as she used to do many sessions ago.)

Do you have an envelope for me?

(The object for the 77th envelope experiment was a copy of an article from The Saratogian, the daily newspaper of Saratoga Springs, NY; it was printed in September, 1950 and was saved by Jane as a souvenir, and also because she wrote it. [...]

[...] I placed it between the usual two pieces of Bristol, then sealed it in the regular double envelopes.

Do you have an envelope for me?

(It was 10:15, and time for our 22nd envelope test. Jane took the sealed double envelope from me without opening her eyes. [...] For several seconds she held the envelope directly against her forehead. [...] Then she lowered the envelope to her lap.)

(The 22nd envelope test was held this evening. [...] I sealed it in the usual double envelopes, between two pieces of Bristol.

(Tracing of the envelope front used in the envelope test, the 23rd, in the 218th session for December 15,1965.)

[...] The envelope object for the test in question was a piece torn from a hidden page of The New York Times. [...] [Hiding it in the studio while my eyes were closed, etc.] Yet when Seth, through Jane, gave the test results, much accurate data was given concerning the full page that lay in the back room, as well as the actual small envelope object in Jane’s hand during the session. [...]

[...] The other concerned the envelope test held in the 300th session. [...]

[...] Let us give you some information concerning the envelope test. [...]

(The 50th envelope experiment was held during the session. [...] I placed it between the usual two pieces of Bristol and sealed it in the double envelopes.

(At 10:17 Jane took the envelope from me for the 50th experiment. [...] Her position did not change; since she sat with her left hand still to her eyes, she laid the envelope in her lap with her right hand.)

Do you have an envelope for me?

(I gave Jane the test envelope at 10:21. [...] She held the test envelope in her left hand.)

[...] It will be remembered that Jane’s second envelope test was held on the night of August 23, in the 180th session, and that the test photo featured Jane on the waterfront at York Beach. [...]

(The double test envelope for the 8th test contained a page from an old novel of Jane’s entitled The Adult Time. [...]

(The 54th envelope experiment was held tonight. [...] I placed the object, folded once, between the usual two pieces of Bristol and sealed it in the double envelopes.

[...] I made two of them on May 10,1966; I dated one of them and used the other in the envelope. [...]

Do you have an envelope for me?