The Missing Link
IN
MODERN SPIRITUALISM.

BY
A. LEAH UNDERHILL,
OF THE FOX FAMILY.

REVISED AND ARRANGED BY A LITERARY FRIEND.

NEW YORK:
THOMAS R. KNOX & CO.,
(Successors to James Miller,)
813 Broadway.
1885.

Copyright, 1885, by
A. LEAH UNDERHILL.

TROW’S
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY,
NEW YORK.

Dedication.

TO MY HUSBAND,
DANIEL UNDERHILL,
WHO,
BEFORE I HAD OTHER CLAIMS THAN THOSE OF TRUTH AND RIGHT,
NOBLY SUSTAINED ME WHEN OLDER FRIENDS WAVERED,
THIS NARRATIVE IS DEDICATED,
NOT LESS GRATEFULLY THAN LOVINGLY.

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EDITOR’S PREFACE.

The author of this volume, having written it fromtime to time, from her recollections and documentarymaterials, which include bushels of letters—but unwillingto commit it to the press in the disjointed condition whichwas a natural consequence of her own want of much practiceof the pen—did me the honor of requesting my aidin revising and arranging it for publication. Her honestyand sincerity of character have caused her to insist upon apreface to that effect. Though deeming this a superfluousscruple on her part, I am induced to comply with her wishfor a different reason; and that is, the opportunity it affordsof bearing my testimony to the remarkable accuracyof her memory and of her truthfulness, as those qualitieshave proved themselves throughout the intimate intercourseof many weeks, during which she has often had torepeat the same recollections of facts and incidents, underwhat was almost legal cross-examination, without ever theslightest variation in their details, and without ever allowinganything to pass which might be in the least degree[vi]tainted with inaccuracy or mistake. As she is so wellknown to so many friends, it is superfluous for me to expresson this page, which will meet her eye for the firsttime in print, the high and affectionate esteem and respectwith which that intimate intercourse, with all its opportunitiesfor observation and judgment, have inspired the
Editor.

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CONTENTS.