BIB_ID
196209
Accession number
MA 14072
Creator
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, sender.
Display Date
Crowborough, England, between 1918 and 1921.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.3 x 12.6 cm
Notes
Dated "March 26".
Written on printed stationery reading: Windleham, / Crowborough, / Sussex.
The letter probably relates to the controversy inspired by the revelations made by the archaeologist Frederick Bligh Bond in his book, The Gate of Remembrance (1918), in which he claims that he was assisted in his successful excavations of Glastonbury Abbey by communications made via automatic writings conveyed through medium and spirit writer "John Alleyne" (actually Captain John Allan Bartlett).
Written on printed stationery reading: Windleham, / Crowborough, / Sussex.
The letter probably relates to the controversy inspired by the revelations made by the archaeologist Frederick Bligh Bond in his book, The Gate of Remembrance (1918), in which he claims that he was assisted in his successful excavations of Glastonbury Abbey by communications made via automatic writings conveyed through medium and spirit writer "John Alleyne" (actually Captain John Allan Bartlett).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Sending him a confidential enclosure written by "the Glastonbury medium" (i.e., Captain John Allan Bartlett?), remarking that he doesn't believe that the medium (who was evidently a practitioner of automatic writing) would mind Horsley seeing it, and praising the writer's skills as a poet and medium, i.e., "He is a fine poet, nearly first class, as well as a true medium. It gives the real facts of the script."
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