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Letter To James Angell, 1891-02-21, Joseph Peace Hazard Feb 1891

Letter To James Angell, 1891-02-21, Joseph Peace Hazard

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Letter describing how Hazard scored eleven points in a billiards game through spiritual intervention.

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Letter To Sir, 1891-01, Joseph Peace Hazard Jan 1891

Letter To Sir, 1891-01, Joseph Peace Hazard

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Description of spirit intervention which protected Hazard from a potentially dangerous encounter with a bull.

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Notes On Vernon Spirit, No Date, Joseph Peace Hazard Jan 1890

Notes On Vernon Spirit, No Date, Joseph Peace Hazard

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Describes Hazard's experience hearing and feeling the ghost of his friend's deceased father, who advised Hazard on how best to help his friend.

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Letter To Luther Colby, 1889-11-14, Joseph Peace Hazard Nov 1889

Letter To Luther Colby, 1889-11-14, Joseph Peace Hazard

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Letter asking for recommendations for "Healing Medium" in Boston. Mentions Sarah Rockwood, a healing medium who attended Rowland Gibson Hazard at the end of his life, and Mary Hull, who was employed as a medium by Thomas R. Hazard.

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Notes, 1889-07-25, Joseph Peace Hazard Jul 1889

Notes, 1889-07-25, Joseph Peace Hazard

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Description of visit in June, 1857, to English windmill haunted by a female ghost.

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Letter To John C. Bundy, 1889-03-14, Joseph Peace Hazard Mar 1889

Letter To John C. Bundy, 1889-03-14, Joseph Peace Hazard

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Letter in which Hazard comments on "The Fox Girls" who have "in their old age - disavowed Spiritualism" and confessed their fraud. Hazard notes that because the women have become "intemperate" that their confessions are suspect. Includes mentions of "The Cock Lane Ghost," divining rods, haunted houses, and "The White Lady" who haunts a German castle.

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Letter To John C. Bundy, 1889-02-02, Joseph Peace Hazard Feb 1889

Letter To John C. Bundy, 1889-02-02, Joseph Peace Hazard

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Letter describing the use of a water divining "wand" to find a stream.

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Are Spectres With Us? 1887-12, Joseph Peace Hazard Dec 1887

Are Spectres With Us? 1887-12, Joseph Peace Hazard

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Clipping describing "psychical research" related to dreams, hallucinations, and spirits.

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