J W Dunne Archive: Crate of general correspondence, containing: Letters by Dunne and accounts of dreams sent to him in response to ‘An Experiment With Time’

Crate of general correspondence, containing: Copy and draft letters by Dunne and accounts of dreams sent to him in response to ‘An Experiment With Time’. Most letters are unsorted and loose, but some have been arranged in files by either Dunne or his wife Cecily. The correspondents include Dunne’s agents A.P. Watt, Geoffrey Faber and Richard de la Mare of Faber & Faber, Sir Oliver Lodge, J.B. Priestley (4 letters by him in 1940 and an undated draft letter to him by Dunne), Kenneth Richmond (BBC), Geoffrey Ramsden, G.F. Dalton, students volunteering for Dunne’s work on dreams, readers of ‘An Experiment With Time’ and other books, etc.; draft letters by Dunne include one to H.G. Wells (20 July 1927, about dream experiences); three files: two marked ‘An Experiment With Time’ -- General Correspondence’ (26 February 1926 to 25 February 1928) and one marked ‘General Correspondence’ (from 13 August 1929)

Details

Category:
Archive
Object Number:
2015-58
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
type:
correspondence
credit:
Purchased from Dominic Winter Book Auction House