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Letter To Joseph Peace Hazard, 1889-11-19, Luther Colby

Joseph Peace Hazard papers

Letter regarding mediums in Boston, including a healing medium who cured Colby of pneumonia while 100 people died in the care of "'regular' medical practitioners".

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

Joseph Peace Hazard papers

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.

Letter To Joseph Peace Hazard, 1889-11-04, Luther Colby

Joseph Peace Hazard papers

Letter in which Colby describes divided state of Spiritualism:

"We are being kicked, as usual, by Spiritualists, who want to boss us, but can't - as well as by enemies of the Cause. I am getting tired of this sort of life. Do you wonder?"

Includes mention of Hazard's brother Thomas:

"Thomas R. comes to see us occasionally. He is, he says, more wide awake than ever before."

Notes, 1889-07-25, Joseph Peace Hazard

Joseph Peace Hazard papers

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

Letter To Joseph Peace Hazard, 1889-05-09, Luther Colby

Joseph Peace Hazard papers

Letter defending medium Miss Debar, who is accused of "swindling" Judge Marsh. Includes note regarding "ascended brother Thomas":

"Whenever your ascended brother Thomas reports, I will send you whatever he communicates. He is somewhat annoyed just now because of the persecution and prosecution our mediums are receiving; and he is just as earnest in protecting them as he was when here in bodily form."

Notes, Peacedale, 1889-05-02, Joseph Peace Hazard

Joseph Peace Hazard papers

Description of “Spiritual Sittings” with Edward Clark, during which “the table began to move, and before the close of the evening, it would not only rock most vigorously; and on the following evening, this Table would frequently run all about the room.” Includes description of conversation regarding Clark’s medical care with the spirits, who communicated through the movements of the table.

Letter To Luther Colby, 1889-05-03, Joseph Peace Hazard

Joseph Peace Hazard papers

Letter regarding eulogy for Mr. Ayer, builder of "The Spiritual Temple" in Boston. Includes Hazard's thoughts on the Christian Church's beliefs in "the reality of Spiritual Manifestations of today, though most of them are opposed to them"; and notes that medical doctors "abhor 'Spiritual Healing Mediums'" due to the competition for patients.

Letter To Joseph Peace Hazard, 1889-05-01, Luther Colby

Joseph Peace Hazard papers

Letter regarding persona article Hazard sent, which Colby does not wish to print. Includes message from "Spirit brother Thomas":

"While answering your note, I get this communication from your Spirit brother Thomas. He says, (which I copy below) what somewhat surprises me:
'Brother Joseph - If you have any money to leave, you had better give it to sustain the Banner of Light circle room meetings, instead of willing it to any other institutions.' "

Letter To Joseph Peace Hazard, 1889-04-09, Luther Colby

Joseph Peace Hazard papers

Letter responding to inquiry regarding Mrs. Hull, who holds private sittings in Boston. Includes post-script regarding Dr. Slade, a "drunk" medium in Maine: "What a pity it is that our psychics, after - like an unruly cow - giving plenty of milk, then kick the pail over! - Mrs. Sawyer is another kicker. We must drop such mediums, don't you think so?"

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

Joseph Peace Hazard papers

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.

Letter To Joseph Peace Hazard, 1889-02-16, Luther Colby

Joseph Peace Hazard papers

Letter acknowledging Hazard's donation to "God's Poor Fund" and relaying message from Hazard's brother Thomas, "now a resident of the Spirit World" who "would like to communicate privately" through Colby's office's new medium, Mrs. Smith.

Letter To Joseph Peace Hazard, 1889-02-12, Luther Colby

Joseph Peace Hazard papers

Letter describing "needy and sick Spiritualists and mediums" and recommending working mediums. Includes instructions to send lock of hair to a healing medium if medical treatment is needed.

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

Joseph Peace Hazard papers

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

Mysteries Of Hypnotism, 1889, Joseph Peace Hazard

Joseph Peace Hazard papers

“Mysteries Of Hypnotism” 1889
Clipping describing Dr. Henry S. Drayton’s lecture on “The Evolution of a ‘Sixth Sense’” and experiments involving duplicating unseen drawings. Includes this description of the dual perception of Spiritualism:

“Modern Spiritualism is a thing of tinsel, deception, and unbelief; but, however this may be, when the London society set about collecting evidences of psychical phenomena it was overwhelmed with the great number of letters. In Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore they consider this matter seriously and study it as a science. They use children as subjects, for they believe that the results from such a source …