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File 15/2/3 – Correspondence with Ian Stevenson (1996-2004), 1996-2004

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS SPR/95/6/4

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- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Carlos Alvarado; Death-coincidences or Wishful Thinking? By T.R. Dening, History of Psychiatry 5, 1994; Sidgwick and Committee; Freiburg Institute grant (9 April 1996)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Bernhard Haisch and the Journal of Scientific Exploration; Gauld’s article in History of Psychiatry; James Munues, Bessie Beales, (14 May 1996)
- Corr. from Emily Cook to Gauld, re. paper on Theosophy by Myers; Rhine Research Centre; Freiburg grant, Ian and Brude Greyson, deathbed visions, George Anderson; ASPR controversy, Gertrude Schmeidler, Nancy Sondow, Stan Krippner, Bruce Greyson (18 July 1996)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. Charlottesville Collections, Spiritualism, Hypnotism and Telepathy (1904) by Clark Bell, Mrs. Piper’s ‘confession’ (1901), Hodgson, James, Medico-Legal Journal; Bill Roll and the ‘confession’ of Julio Vasquez (3 November 1996)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. “exchange of bodies”, cases in South Dakota, Taiwan, Germany; a child experiencing past life regression – Nottingham (4 November 1996)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Spiritualism, Hypnotism and Telepathy (1904) by Clark Bell, Dawn Hunt; Tony Cornell and alleged confession of the Miami Poltergeist, Bill Roll; Ian Hacking (26 November 1996)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Spiritualism, Hypnotism and Telepathy (1904) by Clark Bell, Dawn Hunt, Boston Public Library; Hodgson, William James, New York Herald, Mrs. Piper, T.J. Hudson (20 December 1996)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. Spiritualism, Hypnotism and Telepathy (1904) by Clark Bell, Mrs. Piper, T.D. Crothers, Quackenbos, Minot J. Savage, Mrs. C. Van D. Chenoweth, ASPR; Stevenson to visit the Scole Group (9 January 1997)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. Scole films, Alan Bylett, Monty Keen; A Pictorial History of Magic and the Supernatural by Maurice Bessy (1964), Tony Cornell; Cambridge University Library, 20 Feb.1997
- Corr. from Diane E. Kyser to Gauld, re. acknowledging receipt of letter on Stevenson’s behalf (26 February 1997)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. the arrival of Stevenson’s books to Gauld; Gordon Epperson’s book on Gurney; grant from the Freiburg Institute, the study of cardiac patients who come close to death and survive (13 August 1997)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. inquiry about the University of Virginia, library of Division, Revue Métapsychique, Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie, Luce e Ombra (21 October 1997)
- Corr. form Gauld to Stevenson, re. location of the “University of Virginia set”; Scole Group; details of publishing costs (28 October 1997)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. prospects of obtaining funds, Bruce Greyson, Trustees of the Perrott-Warwick Fund; Stevenson being nominated for the Templeton Prize for “progress in religion; Paul Davies (23 January 1998)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. Scole Group, Monty Keen present at the SSE, David Fontana, Arthur Ellison, concerns that it does “…not reach appropriate standards of evidence”; requesting copy of a page from a Boston Street Directory listing form c.1930 (16 June 1998)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. death of Gauld’s mother; Boston Street Directory listing form c.1930, Dawn Hunt; not writing a book on “drop in communicators; Alex Imich, Jow Nuzum phenomena (1 July 1998)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. Men in White, New Scientist, 4 Jul.1998, U.F.O’s, US scientists being urged into “…studying all unexplained physical evidence” (2 July 1998)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Autumn visit (11 September 1998)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Autumn visit (4 October 1998)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Autumn visit; requesting a favor regarding an article being written by Robert Matthews for The Sunday Telegraph on children experiencing past life regression (3 November 1998)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. contemporary value of $15 in the 1880s; concern for Robert Mathews article for The Sunday Times being suppressed (8 December 1998)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. 1890 value of dollar, Mrs. Piper; The Sunday Telegraph; the “disgrace” of the review of Stevenson’s volumes in the SPR Journal; John Beloff and Zofia Weaver (22 December 1998)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. 1890 value of dollar; David Stevenson, John Beloff; disappointment of lack of reviews of work in mainstream journals; developments in the study of epigenesis; The Sunday Telegraph; Dr. Christopher French, Susan Blackmore (18 January 1999)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. David Stevenson, Zofia Weaver, Stefan Ossowiecki (29 January 1999)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. the modern equivalent of Mrs Piper’s fee; John Beloff and the SPR Journal’s reviews of their respective works; The Sunday Telegraph, Christopher French; developments in the study of epigenesist (30 January 1999)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. a further review in the SPR Journal of Stevenson’s work, Zofia Weaver; Martin Salter, complete sets of SPR Proceedings and Journal; Alexander Coombe-Tennant, William James Papers, Houghton Library, Thomas Sargeant Perry Papers, Mrs Piper; an attempt to take the ASPR to court (20 February 1999)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Mrs Piper’s fee; C.J. Ducasse, ASPR, “John William Graham Library of Literature of Psychic Science” Swarthmore, Brown University; epigenesist, Richard Strohman, NY Review of Books (22 February 1999)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. accidently shipping two sets of Stevenson’s books; University of Arizona, Martin Salter, Gary Schwartz (4 March 1999)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. “…a long screed by Monty Keen, David Fontana and Arthur Ellison about the Scole case” , The Survival of Man by Lodge; Strohmann; Gary Schwartz (21 March 1999)
- Corr. from John H. Stanley to Stevenson, re. brown University Library possessing complete sets of SPR Journal and The Proceedings but would welcome donation of unpublished material on experiments conducted by the SPR (26 April 1999)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. giving a lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Sri Lanka Medical Association; The Scole Group, Margo Williams, John Beloff, The Survival of Man by Lodge; letter from Brown University Library; Gary Schwartz, an article in New Scientist on epigenetics; a letter published in The Lancet (26 April 1999)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. the Parapsychology Foundation holding a copy of a particular addition of The Survival of Man by Lodge, Ms. MacMahon; Mrs Holland; Graham Roos, report on the Scole case and Gauld’s critique (27 April 1999)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. enlarged addition of Survival of Man by Lodge; Stephen Braude suggesting Duke University Library for collection, Alexander Coombe-Tennant wishing to donate his collection to Harvard (2 May 1999)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. The Scole Report, Monty Keen and David Fontana, Graham Roos, “…urgent request for a response about the Report from Council members”; distribution of work and collection, Perkins Library at Duke University, Stanford University, Brown University (14 May 1999)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. David Oakley, hypnotic regression of Graham Le-Gros, London, experiencing past life regression – Hindenburg disaster (25 May 1999)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. a letter from Dr Stanley at Brown, Martin and Mary Salter; David Oakley and Graham Le-Gros; Scole Report (4 June 1999)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. requesting additional sets of monograph be sent to Nottingham University and Darwin College, Peter friend; Stanford University declining offer of Martin Salter’s duplicate collection; suggesting The Parapsychology Foundation for a set of Coombe-Tennant material; ASPR seeming “…doomed” (15 June 1999)
- Corr. form Stevenson to Gauld, re. motives for moving house; Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman; receipt of books; Bernard Carr, conference, Trinity College; new “cases” found during trip to Finland; Old Souls by Tom Shroder (13 October 1999)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Old Souls by Tom Shroder; interview in the New York Times; Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman; the Scole Report; Zofia Weaver and Mary Rose Barrington[?], Stefan Ossowiecki biography; Erlendur Haraldsson, Bernard Carr (19 November 1999)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. Old Souls by Tom Shroder; interview in the New York Times, the SPR running a study day on the Scole Report; Stainton Moses circle, Blanche Abercromby, Katherine Louise, Lady Amberley, Myers, Bertrand Russell; Mrs Doody, Daily Telegraph crosswords and death notices (1 December 1999)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman; the SPR and Scole report; Stevenson’s paper “Cryptomnesia and Parapsychology”, obituaries in the Daily Telegraph, Mrs Doody being giving the pseudonym of “Mrs Southey”; Bernard Carr, Perrott-Warwick Committee (17 December 1999)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Dr Gaston Durville, the case of Laure Raynaud, Delanne and Lancelin, Hector Durville, Journal du magnétisme, College of Psychic Studies, Psychic Magazine 1914 (19 July 2000)
- Corr. from Gauld[?] to Stevenson, re. Gaston Durville being Henri’s brother, jointly editing Revue du psychisme experimental, c. 1910 – 11; Old Souls by Tom Shroder; Child Possessed by David St. Clair, Roff-Vennum case (30 July 2000)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. Research Grants Committee awarding £3200 to Stevenson; John Beloff, “…Zoe’s documentary”, Asakov’s book on the same case; Deborah Delanoy (13 September 2000)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Antonia case, Linda Tarazi report of the case in Fate, JASPR, “Uncle Karl” not existing, revised edition of Children Who Remember Previous Lives; studies on one of or both twins experiencing past life regression; Mad Travelers by Ian Hacking, Tissié’s patient Albert Dadas (23 January 2001)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. Children Who Remember Previous Lives; Anne Fadiman’s book; Hieronymus Schlick and “Uncle Karl”; studies on one of or both twins experiencing past life regression; the Piper Papers, Piddington; Tony Cornell, a “…curious alleged film of a spook (a rather nice looking girl ghost”; Ian Hacking, CUSPR, Hannath Hall; Mad Travelers (6 February 2001)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Mad Traveler’s by Ian Hacking, writing of the “…transitoriness of psychiatric nomenclature”; C.J. Ducasse; monozygotic twins, testing zygosty, magnetic resonance imaging (25 February 2001)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Margaret suffering a second severe stroke; contributing an introduction and afterword to Stefan Ossowiecki biography, Routledge, Ludwig Kahn, Bert Reese, Mary Rose Barrington[?]; finishing book on European cases “…suggestive of reincarnation” (27 November 2001)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Ludwig Kahn, Stefan Ossowiecki biography; clairvoyants, Ellen Dawson, Alexis Didier, a surgeon called Hands, The Zoist 1845, Elliotson; signing a contract with McFarland for European Cases of Reincarnation Type, Myers (15 January 2002)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. The Zoist on Ellen Dawson, Stefan Ossowiecki, Otto Reinmann; Eine Selbstschau by Heinrich Zschokke (1843) (12 February 2002)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Heinrich Zschokke; Bruce Greyson, The Life of Kitty Fisher Here and Hereafter by C. Drayton Thomas, Sir Joshua Reynolds (3 June 2002)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. The Life of Kitty Fisher Here and Hereafter by C. Drayton Thomas (transcript), Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 June 2002)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. receipt of photocopy of The Life of Kitty Fisher Here and Hereafter by C. Drayton Thomas (transcript), SPR Archives, Mrs Leonard; Kitty Fisher by Charles Birken (29 July 2002)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. The Life of Kitty Fisher Here and Hereafter by C. Drayton Thomas (transcript), SPR Archives, The Reincarnationist scripts in JSPR 1945, Mrs Leonard, Geraldine Cummins, Leslie Price, ‘Nafeda’, Donald Nickelson giving a talk at the College of Psychic Science (1965) (29 August 2002)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. C. Drayton Thomas’s “…unpublished book about Kitty Fisher”; reincarnationist material produced by Mrs Leonard, discourse attributed to Oliver Lodge; McFarland and Company “…almost certainly” publishing the Stefan Ossowiecki biography (c. August 2002)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. suggesting that Kitty Fisher material be shown to Zofia Weaver with a view to publishing as a Proceedings of the SPR; thanking for critique of paper on Lebanese cases; Burmese children experiencing past life regression as Japanese soldiers killed during World War II (18 February 2003)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. possible memory of being in a brothel; records at St. Clements Danes Church, John Grahams, R.A.F.; a mislaid script titled “The Ancestor” (27 September 2003)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Carlos Alvarado publishing the Kitty Fisher transcript in the International Journal of Parapsychology, once authorized by Lisette Coly; requesting copies of The Ancestor; Stefan Ossowiecki biography (17 October 2003)
- Corr. from Stevenson to Gauld, re. Margaret’s accident whilst walking the dog in Aruba; The Ancestors, Kitty Fisher, purgatory, Burmese children experiencing past life regression as Japanese soldiers killed during World War II, Icelandic communicator Runki experiencing past life regression, Ven Sayadaw U Sobhana , paritta ceremony (27 February 2004)
- Testimonial for Stevenson, Templeton Prize, “Reason for the Nomination” (c. 1998)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. the Scole Group, The Survival of Man by Sir Oliver Lodge, an enlarged American edition (New York Doran, 1920 and 1929), Mrs Holland, Myer’s, Mrs Varrall (c.1999 – 2004)
- Corr. from Gauld to Stevenson, re. Brown University, Martin Salter; a London boy experiencing past life regression – Hindenburg disaster, David Oakley; The Scole Report, Donald West, David Fontana (c.1994)
- Part of corr. from Gauld[?] to Stevenson[?], re. Dageraad membership; Home’s séances in the States during the 1850s (c.1980 – 1999)
- Copy of corr. from Stevenson to Brian Inglis, re. thanking for summary of structuralism; suggesting that Stevenson remove references to The Minds of Billy Mulligan by Daniel Keyes and the article by Hilary Roberts in The New Scientist (2 Fe.1984) from his book (11 March 1985)
- Corr. from D.J. West to Stevenson, re. Dr. John Strang at the Drug Dependency Unit (14 March 1989)
- Corr. from D.J. West to P.A. Merton, re. requesting advice and comment on a letter from Gauld concerning Stevenson and finding a suitable appointment at Cambridge University (26 January 1977)
- Corr. from Stevenson to John Beloff, re. sending referee’s comments on the paper by James Houran entitled “A Preliminary Look at Daydreaming and Psi”; Eleanor O’Keefe; translation of Stefan Ossowiecki autobiography (27 August 1997)
- Corr. from Jeffrey Iverson to Stevenson, re. ‘In Search for the Dead’ documentary; Charles Honorton dream; discussion with Keith Harary about how to “teach someone to go out-of-body”; Nancy Sondow; Patrice Keane, ASPR (14 May 1991)
- Copy of part of Index-Catalogue of The Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office United States Army, Vol 5, 1884

Dates

  • Creation: 1996-2004

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1 folder(s) (1 folder, paper) : paper

Language of Materials

English

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