To Dear Louise

[REDACTED], X September 1898

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I was much like you when you were little. I could see deceased souls as Mother’s father. Some ghosts were benign as Aunt Peggy, and others are benevolent as Gilbert. I made a will for your family for caring of dear Blanche ‘fore my death.

You weren’t well till you knew I was your great-grandfather. I knew your mother Evelyn was concerned of an “imaginary” friend. ‘Twas same since I had nightmares as a youth. Besides Grandfather Robert, I feared souls watching me everywhither. I’d thought, they wouldth punished me as Grandfather punished me, yet ‘twas the opposite.

Upon dreams and nightmares from past, I’th noticed you’ve journeyed by a time slip. Otherwise, you might see a ghastly double or a shadowed figure.

Nicholas G. Cornwallis-Perkins, 2nd and 1st Earl of St Ives and Cremyll