Lab
Library
Journal
Shop
Sign in
to keep
1
303
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
45
So
far
The
Times,
in
1828.
But
two
forms
of
a
version
of
1832
exist,
one
in
a
note
to
Mr.
Walpole's
Life
of
Perceval
(1874),
"an
attested
statement,
drawn
up
and
signed
by
Mr.
Williams
in
the
presence
of
the
Rev.
Thomas
Fisher
and
Mr.
Charles
Prideaux
Brune".
Mr.
Brune
gave
it
to
Mr.
Walpole.
With
only
verbal
differences
this
variant
corresponds
to
another
signed
by
Mr.
Williams
and
given
by
him
to
his
grandson,
who
gave
it
to
Mr.
Perceval's
great-niece,
by
whom
it
was
lent
to
the
Society
for
Psychical
Research.
These
accounts
differ
toto
coelo
from
that
in
The
Times
of
1828.
The
dream
is
not
of
May
11,
but
"about"
May
2
or
3.
Mr.
Williams
is
not
a
stranger
to
the
House
of
Commons;
it
is
"a
place
well
known
to
me".
He
is
not
ignorant
of
the
name
of
the
victim,
but
"understood
that
it
was
Mr.
Perceval".
He
thinks
of
going
to
town
to
give
warning.
We
hear
nothing
of
Mr.
Tucker.
Mr.
Williams
does
not
verify
his
dream
in
the
House,
but
from
a
drawing.
A
Mr.
C.
R.
Fox,
son
of
one
to
whom
the
dream
was
told
before
the
event,
was
then
a
boy
of
fourteen,
and
sixty-one
years
later
was
sure
that
he
himself
heard
of
Mr.
Williams's
dream
before
the
news
of
the
murder
arrived.
After
sixty
years,
however,
the
memory
cannot
be
relied
upon.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
