Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys-Davids papers

Format:

Book

Series:

Women's Studies Archive: Female Forerunners Worldwide

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Future life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (113 manuscripts)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] [publisher not identified] 1857-1942

Summary:

Caroline Rhys-Davids (1857-1942) became involved with spirit communications and telepathy and published on the subject after the death of her only son, Arthur, during the First World War. Her papers comprise diaries and notebooks containing automatic writing and notes on the afterlife. 107 diaries and notebooks containing automatic writing and notes on the afterlife, seemingly inspired by the death of her only son Arthur during the First World War and by her academic research on Buddhist mythology, along with drafts for her work, 'What is your Will?', published in 1937

Notes:

Date range: 1857-1942

Includes the following publications: Diary includes discussions on electricity in relation to time and space and descriptions of experiences and details of daily life; Writing purported to be from Lao-Tzu, Confucius, Heraclitus, Plato. Automatic writing on loose sheets. Correspondence from J.E. Carpenter and others

Reproduction of the originals from the Senate House Library, University of London

Local Notes:

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OCLC:

1351522875

Access Restriction:

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