Psychic Photography - File 3, c.1922 - c.1963
Scope and Contents
File containing:
1. Mr and Mrs Kear. Correspondence with Nandor Fodor, 1937; report by R.O. (research officer?); photos of the Kears; newspaper cuttings re haunted house in Chelmsford with faces appearing on walls and mirror.
2. Boris Trainin. Correspondence with John Wynton and SPR, 1959 re photo of anomalous image (not enclosed).
3. Eric Cudden. Negatives (enclosed) of a face on a tree (simulacrum), 1937.
4. W.N. Prangnell. Letter to N. Fodor, 1934 and photos and negatives (enclosed) of marks on a wall.
5. Mr Jenkins. Correspondence with N. Fodor, 1937 and photos and negatives (enclosed) of a face on a tree (simulacrum) and other photos.
6. Thomas Taylor: Winchester Cathedral Case. Correspondence with W.H. Salter, Fred Barlow, Canon Lloyd, J.K. Deakin, John Wynton, Mrs Beale, 1958-59 and Dr Porter and Sir George Joy, 1965; report by Peter Delin; newspaper cutting; photos and negatives (enclosed).
7. Godfrey Winn and David Gill. Correspondence with SPR, 1954; newspaper cutting; and photo (enclosed). ‘Christ in the snow on the shrubs’.
8. The Canterbury Ghost. Postcard
9. G. and M. Moyse. Letter, 1936 re photo (enclosed) of supposed spirit in Kewstoke Church, near Weston Super Mare.
10. East Malling, Kent. Two photos (enclosed) of supposed face on wall.
11. Peter Doulton. Article: ‘The Ghost of a Suicide’ by Nandor Fodor and two photographs (enclosed) re a suicide and clairvoyance (Mrs Cooke), 1935.
12. Frank Kulcsar. Letter from W.H. Salter, 1961 and photo (enclosed) of horse’s head.
13. Eric Billing. Letter from W.R. Pose (?) and V.J. Wooley, 1929 and account of image on postcard (enclosed) and its cause by natural means.
14. Mr W. Sharp. Letters to N. Fodor, 1934; automatic writing; newspaper cuttings, 1934-35; and photo (enclosed) of face on wall of Llandoff cathedral supposed to be Dean Vaughan.
15. T. de Bobula. Letter to E.J. Dingwall, 1925 and acknowledgement re extra in photograph (enclosed).
16. Miss Burgess. Letters to SPR, 1937 and acknowledgement re psychic photography.
17. Richard Boursnell. Letter from Percy J. Neale (?), 1900 and 7 spirit photos on card (enclosed).
18. Mr Heath. Correspondence, 1963 between Sir George Joy and Richard Sheargold re Heath’s photo at Chessington Zoo (not enclosed).
20. Miscellaneous photos (enclosed).
Dates
- Creation: c.1922 - c.1963
Creator
- From the Fonds: Society for Psychical Research (1882-) (Organization)
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Extent
1 file(s)
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