"The occurrence took place in November 1887. It would be about 4.15 P.M. He was resting in his chair--in boating clothes--with the door ajar. Heard a knock or sound as of some one entering; turned round and saw Miss ---- come into the room and walk towards him. She was dressed in red bodice and dark silk skirt (a not unfamiliar dress), but with a silver filigree cross hanging from a chain round her neck which he had never seen before. Learnt afterwards that the cross had been given by General ---- only a few days before the incident. "The figure looked him straight in the face, then seemed to fade away bit by bit. "He was himself perfectly well and not a bit sleepy. "He has had no other hallucinations. His age at the time was twenty." Mr. Evans's mother writes:-- "_April_ 27_th_, 1892. "In reply to the questions you asked me about the apparition of Miss ---- to my son, when at Oxford, I can fully verify his statement. He wrote to me the same afternoon, begging me to call upon Miss ---- and see if she was ill, detailing me the account of what he had seen, and also describing her dress minutely and the cross she was wearing. I called upon Miss ---- the following day, and read her my son's letter, giving the hour at which she had appeared to him. She told me that she had not been feeling well, and was lying down on the couch thinking, too, of my son, and that she went off into a sort of trance, and she saw him distinctly looking at her and he was very pale. This made a deep impression upon me, for I must own myself that I hardly believed it to be possible. However, Miss ---- told me that my son had at once written to her, fearing that she must be ill, and told her the circumstances under which she appeared to him. When I saw Miss ---- she was then wearing the same dress and filigree cross which Charlie had described to me in his letter, and which he had never seen her wearing before. I fear that I cannot now find my son's letter, but should I come across it I will forward it to you. Miss ----, however, can corroborate all that I have said. "MARY E. EVANS." Afterwards I saw Miss ----. The following, notes of the interview were made the same day:-- "_July_ 17_th_, 1892. "Her account of the matter is that Mrs. Evans (percipient's mother) called on her on the afternoon of the vision and talked much about her son. After Mrs. Evans left--probably about 5.30 P.M.--Miss ----, as usual, lay down to sleep for a few minutes; woke about 6 P.M. with the recollection of having seen Mr. C. L. Evans. Can recall no details of appearance--merely the recollection of having been in the same room with him. "The next day she received a letter from Mr. C. L. Evans telling of his vision, and on the same day another visit from his mother.