Historical dream account · English · published source text
The Dollars in the Wrapped-Up Shawls
Horace G. Hutchinson
Dreams and Their Meanings (1901) · 1901 edition, chapter VI, printed pp.228–229; PDF pages 240–241; original scan leaves 244–245
Dreamer identified by the source: Mrs. W. F. Brand (as named in the source)
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" Mr. Brand asked me one day to give him the 100 dollars that he had given me to put away for him. I felt startled, for I did not remember that he had given them to me. However, I went to the place where I usually put money and looked. It was not there. I looked in several other not improbable places, but could not find it. By degrees I searched in every drawer, and box, and corner, likely or even impossible, but without success. Night came and I had not found it. I was much disturbed, for the loss was a large one for us ; but even more than for the loss we were concerned at the thought of any one about me having taken it. Before going to bed I prayed very earnestly that I might find it ; or, if not, that suspicion might not fall upon an innocent person. In the course of the night I dreamt that I found the money in the middle of a bundle of shawls that had been put away during the summer, and carefully wrapped up for protection against moths. In my daylight mind this place seemed to me an absurd one to look in, but my dream impressed me a good deal, and I unfastened the shawls (I think they were sewed up), and there was the lost treasure. " I should like to say whether my dream wakened me in the night, but I do not remember. I did not look until the morning. I never have been able to recall the fact of my putting the money away, nor, indeed, of Mr. Brand giving it into my care, although it was an unusual thing for him to do in those days."
Source & context
A sleep-dream recollection reproduced in the 1901 edition’s chapters compiled by an unnamed collaborator, mainly from earlier Society for Psychical Research material. The quoted waking follow-up and supernatural interpretation are historical claims by the source, not independently verified events.
Mrs. W. F. Brand (as named in the source), reported in Horace G. Hutchinson, Dreams and Their Meanings (London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901), 1901 edition, chapter VI, printed pp.228–229; PDF pages 240–241; original scan leaves 244–245. Primary witness: original 1901 edition at Internet Archive. The compiler, dreamer, and separately credited earlier recorder are distinguished. Editorial title and navigation themes added; no generated narrative or new translation.
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1901 edition, chapter VI, printed pp.228–229; PDF pages 240–241; original scan leaves 244–245
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