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Letters From a Living Dead Man

by Elsa Barker

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English

One night last year in Paris I was strongly impelled to take up a pencil and write, though what I was to write about I had no idea. Yielding to the impulse, my hand was seized as if from the outside, and a remarkable message of a personal nature came, followed by the signature "X."

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Automatic writing”. Retained metadata contains “Automatic writing” in the subject metadata, “Spirit writings” in the subject metadata, and “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata.

    • Automatic writing· via Open Library
    • Automatic writing· in subject
    • Spirit writings· in subject
    • Spiritualism· in subject

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Open Library record

1914Mitchell KennerleyEnglishPublic

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  • Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL15265754W
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