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File 16/4 – Correspondence with Mary Rose Barrington (1967-1998), 1967-1998

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS SPR/95/8/4

Scope and Contents

- Corr. from Mary Rose Barrington to Gauld, re. Manfred’s contribution; structure of SPR management (27 July 1967)
- Corr. from Barrington to Gauld, re. The “…other” Freiburg attenders: Mollie, West, Beloff, Gregory, Mayne, report from Anita; Benson article to be published in SPR Journal after it is published in his; Barrington’s “…poltergeist woman” (30 October 1968)
- Corr. from Barrington to Gauld, re. Lambert; envying Gauld’s “…contacts with the spooky world”; George Medhurst’s health (30 September 1969)
- Corr. from Barrington to Gauld, re. George’s paper on the Soal random numbers (20 November 1970)
- Corr. from Barrington to Gauld, re. La Lewis; the “Flint sittings”, Leslie, Doreen and Nigel Buckmaster, Robert Chapman, W. Bennett; voice phenomena, telepathy (12 July 1971)
- Corr. from Barrington to Gauld, re. writing to the Borough Planning Control Officer, Chelsea Old Town Hall, re. SPR to be given permission to be given planning permission (23 November 1973)
- Corr. from Barrington to Gauld, re. Harlow “…and his ilk”, American material, Gurney on the 1876 Act; Geller, a halide chemical rubbed onto metal, mercurous chloride, John Stiles; a girl in Little Hallingbury unable to bend cutlery after apparently succeeding on a previous occasion; planning permission refused by Kensington (26 January 1974)
- Corr. from Barrington to Koestler, re. “Cruel Experiments Bill”; Rosalind Heywood and the “two extraordinary coincidences”: 1) Kirkby Lonsdale, Bailey’s dog and a woman finding Barrington’s coat, 2) WE.H. Smith, Intelligence and Personality by Alice Heim, Richard Ryder; George Medhurst’s book (1 February 1974)
- Corr. from Barrington to Gauld, re. Hubert Larcher, a letter from an unnamed “Frenchman” ‘doctorat de philosophie’, writing a book on Bergson et la Metapsychique (28 November 1997)
- Corr. from Gauld to Barrington, re. the unnamed “Frenchman” request for Bergson material from the SPR (7 December 1997)
- Corr. from Barrington to Mr. Rosen, re. Dorothy Wenberg (9 February 1998)

Dates

  • Creation: 1967-1998

Creator

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Extent

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

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

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