J W Dunne Archive: Folder of correspondence about ‘An Experiment With Time’ (1928-29)

JWD Box 3, containing: Folder of correspondence about ‘An Experiment With Time’ (1928-29) including a letter by Arthur Conan Doyle; and a further long autograph letter by Doyle, 5 May 1927 about ‘psychic science’, with Dunne’s autograph draft reply, also including further draft letters by Dunne to various correspondents including a copy letter to ‘My dear H.G’ [?Wells] about the second edition of ‘An Experiment With Time’ (1928); autograph draft and typescripts of parts of The New Immortality; autograph draft of ‘The Serial Universe’ with a few typescript pages, in two folders (incomplete?); group of notes with explanatory comment attached: ‘These are the original records of the first series of phenomena, written at a time when I was still entirely ignorant of the real character of those phenomena …’; together with further miscellaneous drafts and notes including some ‘which may be useful in some other book’ and ‘Alternative passages’; manuscript of a broadcast talk, with printed extracts and revisions; general correspondence (similar to that in other numbered boxes), 1930-31; letter sorter including ‘Notes made at about the time of the Oxford lecture’; typescript ‘Notes for Eldon Moore concerning his proposed book “Time and Space for Simple Minds” (April 1935); draft and typescript of a lecture to the Grecian Club (‘useful for new, popular book’); draft notes on ‘Space’; a group of ‘miscellaneous notes of importance’ on ‘memory and interference’; notes for an article in Strand magazine; notes on religion; an envelope of ‘useful notes from very old work’; draft and copy letters (e.g. to the editors of the Spectator and Nature and to Professor Herbert Dingle, including 6 letters by Dingle); a folder of ‘latest notes on Relativity Solution’ and a few notes about ‘An Experiment With Time’; and a few letters from Faber about Dunne’s children’s book The Jumping Lions of Borneo etc. [all notes including comments and markings by Dunne in red pencil]; six notebooks of carbon-copied Dream Records kept by Dunne and five Oxford student volunteers, 1932 (related to correspondence with Theodore Besterman in Additional Material)

Details

Category:
Archive
Object Number:
2015-54
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
type:
correspondence
credit:
Purchased from Dominic Winter Book Auction House