Post-mortem confessions : being letters written through a mortal's hand by spirits who, when in mortal, were officers of Harvard College : with comments by Allen Putnam / by Allen Putnam.

  • Putnam, Allen, 1802-1887.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Post-mortem confessions : being letters written through a mortal's hand by spirits who, when in mortal, were officers of Harvard College : with comments by Allen Putnam / by Allen Putnam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    tere professors subsequently went before an assembly of editors and reporters connected with the daily and other papers, when success in production of marvel- ous phenomena of various kinds was surprisingly great. The public was soon informed of this success, and received distinct and extensive accounts of many doings which the highest science of Harvard was unable, and remained unable, to account for. The then prominent members of that committee are now, through their letters to me from their abodes in spirit-land, after twenty-nine years' consideration, putting before mortals that promised explanatory and often called-for Report. More extended account of that conflict is given in the pamphlet of seventy pages, entitled Agassiz and Spiritualism, written and published by me in 1874. Being then ignorant of secrets now revealed, I wrong- fully presented Prof. Felton as chief instigator and manager of the assaults. Now we learn that he acted as servant of President Walker, and the whole Faculty. On the forenoon of Jan. 29, 1886, was received through J. V. Mansfield a very welcome, interesting, and valuable communication, which I deem worthy of publication and preservation. A statement of causes which brought it forth may impart interest to what follows. On an evening in or near the month of April, 1885, the writer was one of a company of thirty to forty Spiritualists assembled in the parlor of W. A. Dunklee, on Tremont Street, Boston. The host, knowing that I had been present at, and participated