This volume was produced by Thomas Olman Todd in 1905 at the request of Spiritualist author Emma Hardinge Britten in order to make a splendid pamphlet on the origins of Spiritualism available to a wider reading audience. It is drawn from materials found in her own comprehensive book on the subject Modern American Spiritualism (1869) as well as the first-hand accounts of events found in A Report of the Mysterious Noises heard in the house of Mr. John D. Fox ... collected by E.E. Lewis in 1848 and