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Great discussion of modern spiritualism, between Prof. J. Stanley Grimes and Leo Miller, Esq

at the Melodeon, Boston, every evening during the second week in March 1860

by J. Stanley Grimes, Harry Houdini Collection DLC & Leo Miller

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. "Questions: 1. Do spirits of departed human beings hold intercourse with men on earth, as claimed by modern spiritualists? 2. Can the various phenomena known as spirit manifestations be satisfactorily and philosophically accounted for without admitting the agency of departed human beings?" LC copy has a ms. leaf laid in between p. 6 and 7; World War I Jewish relief stamps mounted on the final blank. In a pressure binder

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the title, “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata, and “Spiritualism” in the edition title.

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    • Spiritualism· in title
    • Spiritualism· in subject
    • Spiritualism· in edition title

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at the Melodeon, Boston, every evening during the second week in March 1860

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1860-01-01T00:00:00ZBoston : Berry, Colby & CompanyEnglishPublic digitized item

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  • Contributing institution: Harvard University
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Open Library reports 1 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: google
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL2531109W
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