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James Thomson III's Journals were published in 1905, at least in versions of history where Thomson ever existed.
Therein, he related an event during which, visiting another location, he had a vision of being in a mysterious shadow version of London with red skies and insubstantial, darkened buildings which he thought to be the ghosts of buildings which had burnt down. This extract was used in The Book of the War to preface the Book's entry on the Eleven-Day Empire, which matched this description. (PROSE: The Book of the War)