[A leaf from the Orpheus Society of Port Hume attendance and sitters' register, 1913 volume. Canvas-bound notebook. Entries in the Society secretary's hand, with annotations by Madame Laforge in a smaller, European script. Donated to the Hume Polytechnic Library in 1921 as part of an unattributed deposit of Laforge's Port Hume papers; catalogued under accession 1921-OR-002.]
ORPHEUS SOCIETY — PORT HUME\ Private Sittings Register — 1913\ Secretary: Mrs. C. Vantine [i.e., Celeste Vantine]\ Medium: Madame T. Laforge
14 February 1913 — Valentine's Evening Sitting\ Venue: The Garrison Club, rear parlor, per arrangement with Mr. Vantine.\ Sitters present (7): Mrs. E. Hume; Mrs. C. Vantine; Mrs. A. Blaine; Mrs. O. Thorpe; Mrs. D. Westbrook; Miss H. Westbrook; Dr. M. Ingersoll [note in Laforge's hand: "le seul homme — a little frightened, which is correct"].
Conditions: Candles only. Table of six inches mahogany. Duration approximately two hours.
Results as noted by the secretary, from Madame Laforge's spoken summary at close:\ Contact claimed by the medium for two of the seven sitters. The medium will not record the names of those contacted, per the Society's standing rule of discretion. Sitters are advised that the record of their attendance is private and will not be shared with persons not present. [Laforge's annotation: "Mme. Hume has what she came for. The photograph was her idea—she wished the record. I have kept the negative."]
Photograph taken at close of sitting, by Mr. Quarrier's apparatus, at Mrs. Hume's request. Group portrait at the table. Seven sitters and the medium. Copy retained by Madame Laforge; no other copy made.
[At foot of page, a single line in Laforge's hand, added later in different ink:]\ "She came back every week from January 1914. She never asked again what she asked that night. I did not tell her that I had not told her everything."