Strange visitors : a series of original papers, embracing philosophy, science, government, religion, poetry, art, fiction, satire, humor, narrative and prophecy : By the spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray, Bronte, Richter, Byron, Humboldt, Hawthorne, Wesley, Browning, and others now dwelling in the spirit world / Dictated through a clairvoyant, while in an abnormal or trance state.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horn, Henry J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spiritualism.

Penn Provenance:

Auerbach, Nina, 1943- (former owner)

Auerbach, Nina, Estate of (donor)

Physical Description:

249 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : William White and Company, Banner of Light Office, 158 Washington Street, 1871.

Contents:

To the New York public / Henry J. Raymond

Literature in spirit life / Margaret Fuller

To his accusers / Lord Byron

Apparitions / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Visit to Henry Clay / Washington Irving

To the French nation / Napoleon Bonaparte

His post mortem experience / W.M. Thackeray

Two natural religions / Archbishop Hughes

The lost soul / Edgar A. Poe

Invisible influences / Jean Paul Richter

Agnes Reef, a tale / Charlotte Bronte

To her husband / Elizabeth B. Browning

In and out of purgatory / Artemus Ward

Distinguished women / Lady Blessington

Locality of the spirit world / Professor Olmstead

Hold me not / Adah Isaacs Menken

Off-hand sketches / N.P. Willis

City of spring garden / Margaret Fuller

Art conversations / Gilbert Stuart

Government / Edward Everett

Flight to my starry home / Frederika Bremer

The Sabbath, its uses / Rev. Lyman Beecher

Life and marriage in spirit life / Prof. George Bush

Acting by spirit influence / Junius Brutus Booth

Church of Christ / Rev. John Wesley

A spirit revisiting earth / N.P. Willis

Alone / Allan Cunningham

The earthquake / Baron von Humboldt

Naturalness of spirit life / Sir David Brewster

Mormons / H.T. Buckle

Drama in spirit life / W.E. Burton

Painting in spirit life / Chas. L. Elliott

Rollicking song / Comedian's poetry

Prophecy / Lady Hester Stanhope

The planets / Professor Mitchell

Causes of disease and insanity / Dr. John W. Francis

The spirit bride / Adelaide Procter.

Notes:

"Introduction. By the editor", signed: Henry J. Horn.

"Adelaide Proctor." --p. [1], second count.

"Banner of light: an exponent of the spiritual philosophy of the nineteenth century." --p. [2], second count.

Last page blank.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by the estate of Nina Auerbach in 2017.

Libra Rare copy a former library copy.

OCLC:

950951027