Do spirit-lives communicate with the living?

Spirit-lives can―do―communicate with the living.

Our prayers and kindly thoughts for those who dwell in spirit life are of great assistance to them

Our prayers and kindly thoughts for those who dwell in spirit life are of great assistance to them. Our tears and sorrows are theirs; they depress and burden them.

Grimsvötn in Vatna Jökull glacier in Iceland on 29 Jul 1972 by Roger McLassus (CC-by-SA-3.0)

I could fully enjoy the “other world” if I had my friends and family here

Who wrote Nathan Hale and The Blue and the Gray?

You know as much about “The Blue and the Gray” as I do.

—E. W. Huffcutt

Mr Burr

I am booked for the sessions of a higher congress than at Washington. I could fully enjoy the “other world” if I had my friends and family here.

—Truly, J. B. Perkins

Can you convince me that you still live?

Can you convince me that you still live?

I find it all real

I find it all real.

—Arthur W. Moore

I don’t want you to feel that I am lost to you or gone into the grave

If I ever had a conscious life, I have it now. This is my first at this. I shall learn better how to write and so help you.

—Chas. Bissell

My dear Son

I rejoice to see you here, I don’t want you to feel that I am lost to you or gone into the grave. I still have much that I want to say, much that I am not able to write. The discussion as to E. M. will be productive of good, I feel sure.

I am Father, William Burr 

If I ever had a conscious life

These communications indicate that those who dwell in spirit life are anxious that their friends in earth life may know that they still survive; all are anxious to send back the message that they have survived the ordeal of physical death.

I shall again clasp to my breast the ones I love best in the world

Dear Sir & Friend

I am grateful for any graciousness you may show Mrs Ingersoll. I want her to know the truth as I desired to know it in my mortal days. I wandered between Spiritualism and Materialism, and hoped for the best. I found life continuous and I rejoice, for by it I know I shall again clasp to my breast the ones I love best in the world.

—Respectfully, R. G. Ingersoll 

William

I always feel like saluting you with a dozen guns. One who has taken such a courageous stand for truth in their life as you have, merits our recognition.

—Charles Bissell

Don't wish me back

I observe that you have taken to the woods at last.

—Brother Frank Burr

I do not know just how I got up here in the woods, but I suppose it is all right to be here. You are not forgotten by me, and although I am not of very much help to you, I feel now that a little letter will be an encouragement to you in your examination of a subject so vital that it should interest all humanity. I shall be with you at future times.

—Aunt Elizabeth Chase

I suppose you see me at all times. I hope to have you all over here some time.

—Iola Carey*

* In a communication received the following day, Ida writes―The one who wrote for me yesterday signed my name Iola.

I send you a loving greeting

I shall not be among the missing when your friends form a division in any hour of your need.

—V. R. Hilton

Hello Will. How in thunder did you know I would drop in on you here?

—Frank Burr

I send you a loving greeting, and you must always tell Winnie that I came on this occasion and spoke of her. I am getting on beautifully.

—Ida Carey

Have you any message for your brother Thomas? In answer – 

Please tell Thomas to interest himself in so vital a truth as this.

—George Raines