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Add MS 52258-52273

Record Id:
032-002001696
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002001696
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000036.0x00038d
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 52258-52273
Title:

THE GHOST CLUB ARCHIVES

Scope & Content:

Archives of The Ghost Club; 1882-1936. The Ghost Club was a dining club founded by Alfred Alaric Watts and William Stainton Moses on

1 Nov. 1882 for the confidential reporting and discussion of psychic phenomena and was wound up on 2 Nov. 1936. Amongst its members were W. B. Yeats, Sir William Crookes and A. P. Sinnett. For a short history of the Club, see 52273 below. Presented by The Ghost Club through I. B. Nicholl, Esq., in 1938, and hitherto reserved.

Paper. Sixteen volumes. Mostly octavo.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002001696
Is part of:
not applicable
Contains:
Add MS 52258-52267 : GHOST CLUB ARCHIVES. Vols. I-X. Numbered minute-books; 1882-1936. 52258 is preceded on ff. 1b-3 by names and addresses of…
Add MS 52268 : GHOST CLUB ARCHIVES. Vol. XI (ff. i+11). Printed 'Rules of the Ghost Club', followed (ff. 3b-7) by a roll of members,…
Add MS 52269 A-C : GHOST CLUB ARCHIVES. Vol. XII A-C.
Add MS 52270-52272 : GHOST CLUB ARCHIVES. Vols. XIII-XV. Club records, mostly comprising members' communications and related correspondence;…
Add MS 52273 : GHOST CLUB ARCHIVES. Vol. XVI (ff. ii+24). Notebook of Iltyd B. Nicholl, last Honorary Secretary of The Ghost Club, containing a…

 

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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
18 items
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Languages:
English
Turkish
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1882
End Date:
1936
Date Range:
1882-1936
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Iltyd B. Nicholl, Secretary, the Ghost Club: MSS presented through, in 1938.

Ghost Club, The: Archives, 1882 - 1936, presented by, in 1938.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
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Names:
Ghost Club
Nicholl, Iltyd B, Sec the Ghost Club