 The story was reprinted in this 1973 Mitchell collection.
| | “An Uncommon Sort of Spectre”
by Edward Page Mitchell
First publication: The New York Sun, 30 Mar 1879
On the 1352 evening of the birth of quadruplets sons to the baroness of a Rhine castle, the baron himself entertains a traveler with memories of the coming 80 years. For you allow that, while ghosts out of the future are unheard of, ghosts from the past are not infrequently encountered. 
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