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Leon H. Stevens records communications that his family attributed to Leroy Sylvan Stevens after Roy’s death in March 1916. The book opens with the family’s circumstances and their attempts to establish contact through a Ouija board, then follows dated exchanges that connect everyday matters with ideas about a spiritual life.
Family relationships, remembered events, humor, music, religious reflections and the conditions of communication recur throughout the messages. Stevens explains how the family understood the experience and why he included both practical details and more reflective passages. A final account concerns the portrait associated with the volume and the circumstances in which the family obtained it. Published in 1917, this is the complete original edition, preserving the introduction, narrative, message record and concluding discussion.