Historical dream account · English · published source text
The Last Page That Said The End
Horace G. Hutchinson
Dreams and Their Meanings (1901) · 1901 edition, chapter VII, printed pp.303–304; PDF pages 315–316; original scan leaves 319–320
Dreamer identified by the source: Field-Marshal Lord S. (as identified in the source)
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" My father, the second night before my sister was taken ill, dreamed that he asked her to go on with the Life of Charles James Fox, the second volume of which was not then in the house. He dreamed that she said ' Oh, there is no more for me to read, that is the end,' and she held up the volume she had read to him, open at the last page, across the half of which he saw printed in very large black, thick letters, filling the page quite across, The End. "He said it gave him a sort of shock which awoke him, and he still felt a painful shock, he could not say why, when he awoke and remembered it. And yet he was half-amused at feeling it a shock or remembering it at all.
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. The letter writer is an unnamed daughter recounting her father’s dream. The father is identified in the source only as Field-Marshal Lord S., with a printed death year of 1863; no full identity is supplied here.
Field-Marshal Lord S. (as identified 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 VII, printed pp.303–304; PDF pages 315–316; original scan leaves 319–320. 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.
The publication year is not the dream date. No exact dream date or present-day person location is inferred. Dates printed in the narrative remain source wording.
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The original English 1901 edition is public domain in the United States by expired publication term; Archive metadata reports NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT. No new Archive license or Public Domain Mark grant is asserted. The linked NoC-US statement describes the US-only rights basis; blanket worldwide clearance is not asserted. Hutchinson’s own writing and named or unidentified contributors are distinguished; no contributor is assigned the compiler’s death date. Named or initialled historical contributor as printed; contributor death date not established here. US publication-term basis is used, not Hutchinson’s death year..
Source locator and text provenance
1901 edition, chapter VII, printed pp.303–304; PDF pages 315–316; original scan leaves 319–320
The original text and redactions are preserved. The page title is an editorial navigation label.
Whitespace/linewrap normalization, witnessed end-of-line dehyphenation, and listed scan-verified OCR repairs only. No dream narrative, person, event, translation or stylistic rewrite added.
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Content notes
- Death warning interpretation
Connections in the Loom
Titles, theme labels, illustrations and map connections are editorial navigation aids. They are separate from the account’s words and do not establish connections between real people.