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Post-mortem confessions: being letters written through a mortal's hand by spirits who, when in mortal, were officers of Harvard college: with comments

being letters written through a mortal's hand by spirits who, when in mortal, were officers of Harvard College : with comments

Also known as Post-mortem confessions

by Allen Putnam, Cornelius Conway Felton & Harry Houdini Collection DLC

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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"The chief contents of this work will consist of correspondences between its author and certain former officers of Harvard College in reference to their attack upon modern spiritualism in 1857 ..." p. 3 Communications from the spirits of Cornelius Conway Felton and others

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Why this book is in the catalog

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

  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Spirit writings” and “Spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the description, “Spirit writings” in the subject metadata, and “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata.

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    • “Spiritualism”· in description
    • “Spirit writings”· in subject

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being letters written through a mortal's hand by spirits who, when in mortal, were officers of Harvard College : with comments

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1886-01-01T00:00:00ZBoston : Colby & Rich; Boston, Colby & RichEnglish—Public digitized item

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
  • Contributing institution: Harvard University
  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School
  • Digitization sponsor: The Library of Congress
  • 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
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; medicalheritagelibrary
  • Open Library reports 1 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: google
  • Scanner: scribe10.capitolhill.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe4.boston.archive.org
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openlibrary-work:OL4041152W
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