Letter to Doctor A. Brigham on Animal Magnetism: Being an Account of a Remarkable Interview Between the Author and Miss Loraina Brackett While in a State of Somnambulism

Letter Describing A Blind Young Woman Who Had Demonstrated Clairvoyant Powers While In A Trance Like State. Brackett, Whose Sight And Speech Had Been Lost From A Near Fatal Blow To The Head By An Iron Weight, Was Able To Speak Normally And Discern Certain Objects And Light From Darkness Following Treatment By Dr. George Capron Of Providence, Rhode Island, Using Animal Magnetism. William Leete Stone Was A Journalist, Editor Of The Commercial Advertiser, Advocate Of Slave Emancipation And Greek Independence, Historian Of Colonial New York And New England, And First Superintendent Of Public Schools In New York City.