This section is from the book "Dreams And Their Meanings", by Horace G. Hutchinson. Also available from Amazon: Dreams and Their Meanings 1901<.
"We dined one evening with the German Consul - General, the Russian Consul being also present among others. After dinner my husband went to examine one of the trophies of East African arms, with which the room - as in his dream - was hung. While he was doing so the Russian Consul went up to speak to him upon the subject, and the dramatic flourish of his arm with which he emphasised his conversation, at once recalled the dream in which it had taken place so vividly to my husband's mind that he immediately crossed the room to me and asked me if I did not remember it also, which of course I did, though, as I was talking to some one else at the time, and only knew the room previously by my husbands description of his dream, the coincidence might not have occurred to me had he not called my attention to it. Directly he did so, however, by asking me if I did not remember his dream, I recollected quite well all the details I have previously mentioned
"Agnes M. Haggard."
Below are given a letter from Mr. Kolemine, Russian Consul, and a statement from Herr Micha - belles, German Consul-General at Trieste, both of whom were witnesses of the fulfilment of Mr. Haggard's dream, and of the great impression which it made upon him at the time:-
"Monsieur Haggard, mon collegue d'Angleterre, a eu un reve tres remarquable au point du vue psycho - log ique. Mlle. Z------aussi et d'autres personnes encore.
Veuillez accepter tout ce que Monsieur Haggard vous a ecrit comme etant parfaitement la verite et l'asserter de mon nom si vous le jugez necessaire.
"Agreez, cher Monsieur, l'assurance de ma consideration tres distinguee.
"A. De Kolemine."
"Berlin, "10thNovember, 1893.
"Whilst I was German Consul - General at Trieste, I had, one evening in February or March of this year, the pleasure of Mr. and Mrs. Haggard's company at dinner; among others the Russian Consul was present. It was the first time that Mr. Haggard came into my private house; before we had always met in my office. After dinner I was busy in entertaining my party, when suddenly Mr. Haggard joined me and told me that a few weeks before he had seen, in a very vivid dream, my drawing-room with the trophies of East African arms on shields against the walls, and Mr. Kolemine, the Russian Consul, standing before one trophy had explained something to him in his usual excited manner, waving his arms over his head in order to illustrate what he said. All this happened just at the moment with all particulars seen in the dream. I was extremely astonished at the strange occurrence and observed that the realisation of his dream had produced a strong effect on Mr. Haggard's mind.
"J. MlCHABELLES,
"Counsellor of legation in the Foreign Office."
In the next case the gradual accomplishment of the dream seems to have been watched with interest by more than one person.
The Rev. B. Dulley, of St. Peter's Clergy House, London Docks, E., sends the following statement, which was written in October, 1893, and is certified to be correct by the percipient, Annette Jones.
"Annette, wife of Walter Jones, tobacconist, of Old Gravel Lane, St. George's, East London, early in September of this year (1893) had her little boy, Peter, ill. One night she dreamt that she saw a cart drive up, stop near where she was, and the driver move a black cloth and discover three coffins, two white and one blue. One white coffin was bigger than the other, and the blue was the biggest of the three. The man took out the bigger white coffin and left it, driving off with the two others. In the morning Mrs. Jones told her dream to her husband, and afterwards to another woman, specially telling her husband that one of the coffins was blue. On the 10th of September, Mrs. Devonshire, who, and whose husband were particular friends of the Jones's, was confined with a fine boy whom they named Eric
"At first he seemed quite healthy, but a weakness of the lungs developed itself and he died on Friday, the 29th September. Little Peter Jones died the following Monday, the 2nd of October, being then sixteen months old. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, knowing that Eric was to be buried on the Wednesday, for the sake of both friendship and economy, hurried their little boy's funeral for that day, so that both funerals should take place at the same time. On the morning of the Wednesday the parish priest informed Mr. and Mrs. Jones that another child's body would be brought into church along with theirs, the son of a Mrs. Jupp, whom they did not know.
"Mrs. Jones then remarked to her husband lf the coffin is blue, then my dream will come true, for the two other coffins were white And so it happened. Mrs. Jones anxiously watched at the funeral for little Jupp's coffin, and when she saw it was blue she clutched to her sister, who walked by her side, and said 'that's my dream'. It will be noticed that the relative sizes of the coffins also corresponded, little Eric's being the smallest for a child of a few days, little Jupp's the largest for one about six years, and blue, and Peter's, of course, less than his but bigger than Eric's."
"1 have read the above and find it a true and correct account of my dream and the circumstances relating to it
"Annette Jones."
"1 remember distinctly my wife telling me of her dream, and especially as to the colour of the coffins, two white and one blue, and watched the circumstances which occurred afterwards with something like awe.
"Walter H. Jones."
The Rev. B. Dulley states in a letter dated 6th January, 1894:-
"Mr. Jones is a particularly common-sense practical man with abilities in that respect above the average.
So far from welcoming the preternatural event noted, he is rather vexed and worried by it Both he and his wife are conscientious people, and certainly believe what they say.
" B. Dulley,
"Clerk in Holy Orders."
From Captain Parker, through the Rev. A. T. Fryer:-
 
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