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Rabbit Hole · 1922 · en

The Darker Drink

by Marietta Minnigerode Andrews

About this book

Marietta Minnigerode Andrews brings together a personal narrative of bereavement and the automatic writings she associated with communication beyond death. Walter Franklin Prince introduces the volume, describing the circumstances in which the material was recorded and its importance to the author as a source of consolation.

The first part recounts Andrews’s early experiences with automatic writing, letters associated with Elizabeth and a visit to a medium. The second looks back over her child’s earthly life before presenting messages attributed to her daughter, William Miles and Thomas Jefferson. Reflections on grief, faith, continuity of personality and practical life connect the narrative with the communications. Published in 1922, this complete historical edition retains its foreword, introduction and the original sequence and form of the messages.