The surprising case of Rachel Baker, who prays and preaches in her sleep : with specimens of her extraordinary performances taken down accurately in short hand at the time ; and showing the unparalleled powers she possesses to pray, exhort, and answer questions, during her unconscious state : the whole authenticated by the most respectable testimony of living witnesses / by Charles Mais, of the city of New-York, stenographer.

  • Mais, Charles.
Date:
1814
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Credit: The surprising case of Rachel Baker, who prays and preaches in her sleep : with specimens of her extraordinary performances taken down accurately in short hand at the time ; and showing the unparalleled powers she possesses to pray, exhort, and answer questions, during her unconscious state : the whole authenticated by the most respectable testimony of living witnesses / by Charles Mais, of the city of New-York, stenographer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (,X>).MfcM DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK, SS. Be it remembered, that on the sixteenth day of November, in the t ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Charles Mais, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words and figures following, to wit: The surprising case of Rachel Baker, who prays and preaches in her sleep; with specimens of her extraordinary performances taken down ac- curately in short hand at the time ; and showing the unparalleled powers she possesses to pray, exhort, and answer questions during her unconscious state. The whole authenticated by the most respectable testimony of liv- ing witnesses, by Charles Mais, of the city of New-York, Stenographer. Tdl me the vision of my dream, that T hare seen, and the interpretation thereof. Nebuchadnezzar to Belteshazzar. Dan. 4. 9. !^In conformity to the act of,the congress of the United States, entitled- *' An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and' Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned. And also to an act, entitled An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the au- thors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and sfcehing historical anil ether prints. THERON RUDD, Clerk of the Utnthetn District of New-York.