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Anne Manning Robbins combines autobiographical recollection, records of sittings with the medium Leonora E. Piper, and reflections on spiritual life. Her account follows a movement from religious uncertainty toward belief in personal survival after death. The early chapters describe Mount Holyoke, her working life in Boston, encounters with Richard Hodgson, and her association with Augustus Pearl Martin, whose death becomes central to the experiences she relates.
The second part presents extracts from reports of communications attributed to Martin through Mrs. Piper, with explanations of the circumstances and the author’s conventions for recording exchanges. A final section gathers short meditations on self-discipline, happiness, intimations of another life, and love. Published in 1909, the volume includes a letter from William James to its publishers and preserves Robbins’s distinction between the personal meaning of these experiences and the evidential details of individual sittings.