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Animals - File 2, c.1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS SPR/Research/Animals/File 2

Scope and Contents

File labelled 'The Talking Mongoose Case (Harry Price)' containing:

Newscuttings: Pencil-drawn map. ‘When is a Mongoose’? (nd.) ‘Low on the Talking Mongoose’. (nd.) Miss Voirrey Irving. Daily Express (7 November 1936) ‘Psychic Duck is US Reply to Mongoose’. Sunday Referee, N.Y. (15 November 1936) ‘Talking Cat’. (July 1933) ‘Familiar Spirits’. Light. (19 November 1936) ‘That Mongoose Again’. Light. (4 march 1937) ‘Mongoose Case and Sunday Paper’. Morning Post. (November 1936) ‘Sir Patrick Hastings’ Questions. The Talking Mongoose’. Morning Post. (5 November 1936) ‘Book on Talking Mongoose. Authors seek injunction’. The Times. (11 November 1936) ‘The Mongoose: Today’s exclusive story’. Sunday Chronicle Manchester. (15 November 1936) Flyer: A Manx Scrapbook and A Second Manx Scrapbook by W. Walter Gill. ‘Talking Mongoose again’. Yorkshire Evening Post (10 November 1936) ‘Mongoose action no. 2 settled’. Huddersfield Examiner (13 November 1936) ‘High Court Judge discusses Jeff, the Mongoose’. Daily Express (5 November 1936) ‘The Talking Mongoose. Nandor Fodor’s Explanation’. Light. (27 May 1937) ‘The Talking Mongoose’ and ‘A First-hand Account’. The Listener. (23 October 1935) ‘My Search for the Talking Mongoose’. Two Worlds. (31 July 1936; 7 August 1936) A drawing of Gef from The Haunting of Cashen’s Gap. ‘House ‘possessed’ by a Mongoose’ by Richard Lewis. Sunday Dispatch. (nd.) ‘The Mongooses are Gentlemen’. Sunday Referee. (8 November 1936) ‘Night Vigil for Gef, the Mongoose’. Daily Express. (7 November 1936) ‘Mongoose Mystery Investigated’. Sunday Chronicle. (15 November 1936) ‘Night Vigil at the Mongoose Farmhouse’. News Chronicle. (4 November 1936) ‘BBC Editor’s Slander Action’. Daily Herald. (5 November 1936) ‘BBC Editor denies the ‘Evil Eye’ chased him’. Daily Express. (nd.)

Photographs, Gef’s hair, newscuttings Black & white photos (and some negatives) of the farmhouse, surrounding area, people involved and Gef. commercial postcards. News Chronicle illustrations. (9 November 1936) Reproductions of Gef photos. 2 samples of Gef’s hair. Sample of Mona’s hair from her dog and photos. Sample of hair from a banded mongoose.

Correspondence between February 10 1936 and January 19 1938 involving the following people … and Gef: The Research Officer: Nandor Fodor James T. Irving Charles Hicks Nandor Fodor Charles Morrison Miss Beenham Deemster Cowley Mrs Ward The Librarian Captain Dennie Arthur Morrison T. Radcliffe W.T.L. Becker Report: My diary in the house of the talking mongoose. (February 1 1937). Mr J.T. Irving’s diary continued. (February 26 1937). Letters to Nandor Fodor (15 February 1937; 18 February 1936 [or 1937]; 19 February 1937; 22 February 1937). Gef ‘broadcast’ (February 1937). Further accounts from Mr Irving’s diary and letters to Nandor Fodor. Extracts from letters from James Irving to Charles Morrison (1935-1937). ‘A Letter from England’. N. Fodor. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, (March 1937; July 1937). Report of Captain Macdonald’s third visit. Letter from the Research Officer to Mr Irving about refusal to pay for his diary. (25 February 1937).

Dates

  • Creation: c.1930

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Extent

1 folder(s)

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