I calculated the number of those I have spoken with who had been known to me in their bodily life to exceed 30, so that there are more than 30, at the least-for I could not recall all of them. With some I spoke for days, with others for weeks, with two for almost two months. And I also conversed with them about domestic matters, among many other subjects, exactly as people on earth talk together. We also spoke of events after their death, and the like. 1748, 18 March. I can now increase the number to 60. 1748, 24 Sept.* * This last sentence was written a half year later, while the author was working on the index.