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."
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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.
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| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Open Library record | 1914 | Mitchell Kennerley | English | — | Public |
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