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- Record Id:
- 040-001957631
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001957482
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000671.0x000315
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 88803
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Raine Papers. Vol. cxxix (ff. ). Transcripts of meetings of a 'Discovery Group' with Ivy Northage and her sensitive, 'Chan'; 1973-1975. Drafts with manuscript revisions. The Discovery Group was organised by Paul Beard, President of the College of Psychic Studies, to investigate the 'laws and conditions of the state beyond death'. Besides Beard the group comprised Rosamond Lehmann, novelist; Elizabeth Collins, painter and sculptor; Elizabeth Jenkins, author; Col. Gerald Gough; Thetis Blacker, painter and singer, and Raine. The group discussed/contacted Yeats, Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hardy, Karen Blixen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, Malcolm Lowry, Edwin Muir, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, William Wordsworth, Coventry Patmore, Algernon Blackmore and Walter de la Mare. The mechanism of spiritualism and the nature of the after-life were also discussed.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001957482
036-001957625
040-001957631 - Is part of:
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Add MS 88803 : Raine Papers. Vol. cxxix (ff. ). Transcripts of meetings of a 'Discovery Group' with Ivy Northage and her sensitive,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001957482[0003]/036-001957625[0006]/040-001957631
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88675-88853
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1973
- End Date:
- 1975
- Date Range:
- 1973-1975
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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