Podmore, Frank (1855-1910)

Holograph Report of eleven séances: at the end an unfinished essay on the possibility of Telepathy. The incomplete essay on telepathy was perhaps written later. Inserted loose are 3 8vo. leaves on 'table-turning', apparently part of a letter.

1873

1 volume 5 ll. + 13 bl. ll. + 5 ll. 4to. 25 × 19 cm. Unbound. The last leaf of the report is damaged.

Purchased 1935.

The author was a prominent writer on psychical research, and one of the founders of the Fabian Society [see the Dictionary of National Biography]

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).