The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1860-03-24

er, we were obliged to wait four weeks for
the next chance. One day the letters came
as usual for Mr. Willis, but none for me.
/ gave up all hope for that month, and
went to bed in state of great disappoint-
ment and detection; but in the night |
dreamed that it was morning, and L was
dressing myself when Mr.. Willis burst in
to the room, saying:
1.-The postman is below perhaps he has
letters for you. Come up into the dining
room, and you can see him from the win
| dow"
We thereupon went up to the dining
room on the third story, and looked down
into the street; and there stood the post
man, who, as soon as he saw us, held up
letter at arm's-length, holding it by the
lower right hand corner Though he was
in the street and ! in the the third story, l
read my name upon it.
| arose in the morning with my head
full of the dream. When | was about half
dressed, Mr.. Willis came into my room,
repeating the very words / heard in my
sleep. We went into the dining-room to-
gether, looked down, and there stood the
postman, holding up letter by the lower
;ight-hand corner Of course 1 could not
read the address at that distance, but my
name was upon it. In this case the cir
cumstances were altogether beyond my
control, and the literal manner in which
the dream was fulfilled in every minute
particular is its most astonishing feature.
Nothing was added or omitted; the reality
was daguerreotype of the vision. Never
before had my friend visited my room at so
early an hour; never before hadmy postman
held up a letter IF coincidence only,
the accuracy is therefore all the more mar
velous
When / was last in Florence, the sculp-
tor, Powers, related to me a still more re-
markable story, which had come to pass
only few days before my arrival. A
young English lady of his acquaintance
who was living with her brother in the city,
was on terms of great intimacy and affec
ton with young lady who was spending
the summer with her father in villa among
the Apprentices. This friend had invited
her to visit her during the summer. She
had accepted the invitation, and the mid
die of August was fixed upon as the time.
Three weeks before, however, the young
lady had remarkable dream. 1t seemed
to her that the day of her departure for the
villa, near Pistoja, had arrived. Her
trunk was packed, and early in the morn
ing a very curious old carriage drove to the
door to receive her The vetturino slung
her trunk to the axletree with ropes, a dis
position of baggage which she had never
before seen. She took her seat, and for
several hours iourneyed down the vale of
the Arno, noticing the scenery, which was
entirely new to her. Several trifing Incl
dents occurred on the way, and there was
a delay occasioned by the giving way of
the harness; but towards evening she
reached the Appenine villa
As she approached the villa she per-
ceived the father of her friend standing in
the door with very troubled counte-
nance He came forward as she was pre-
pairing to alight, laid his hand on the car
riage door, and said:
any daughter is Try i'll, and no one is
allowed to see her. tonight is the crisis
of her fever, which will decide whether
she will recover. [ have made arrange
ments for you to spend the night in the
villa of Mr.. Smith yonder, and pray Hea-
ven that my daughters condition will per-
NIT you to return TO us tomorrow
Thereupon he gave directions TO the vet
turino, who drove to Mr.. Smiths villa. The
host received her kindly, ushered her into
broad entrance-hall, and said:
II will endeavor to make you comforta-
BILE for the night. That will be your room,"
pointing to glass door with green curtains,
at the end of the hall Here her dream
suddenly stopped.
The next morning she related the whole
story to her brother For few days after
wards, they occasionally referred to it but
as she received information that her friend
was in excellent health, she gradually ban
ished from her mind the anxiety it had
caused her. The day fixed upon for her
Journey at length arrived. What was her
establishment, when the identical queer old
carriage of her dream drove up to the door,
and her trunk was slung to the axletree
This was the commencement, and during
the whole day everything occurred precisely
as she had already seen it. Towards eve
ming she arrived at the villa near PistOga !;
and the father of her friend stood in the
door, with a troubled countenance He
came forward repeating the intelligence of
his daughters illness in the same words,
and ordered the vetturino to drive to the
villa of Mr. Smith. The excitement and
alarm of the young lady had been contin-
ually on the increase so that, when she
finally reached the broad entrance hall,
Mr.. Smith, said
Il will endeavor to make you comforta-
BILE for the night--th0t will be your room,
pointing to the glass door with green cur
tains,) her nerves, strung to their utmost
tension, gave way; and she fell upon the
the floor in a swoon. Fortunately, there
was no ground for superstitious forebodings.
| The crisis passed over happily and the
very next day she was permitted to nurse
her convalescnt friend.
Here the dream, in all its details, was
narrated three weeks before its vertical