William Henry Waldo Sabine papers, 1797-1994, bulk 1920-1994

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Series II: Correspondence, manuscripts, notes



Box 2 Five folders each containing correspondence and/or other material of interest to parapsychology


Box 2 A Mystery of History


Box 2 Article published in Light, 1951 October


Box 2 Notes


Box 2 Correspondence


Box 2 The Identity of "Feda", Mrs. Gladys Osborne Leonard's Spirit Communicator

William H.W. Sabine's correspondence in an endeavor to throw light on this subject.


Box 2 The Ghosts of Versailles, by Lucille Iremonger

Correspondence of William H.W. Sabine with Mrs. Iremonger, with Mrs. Lydia W.Allison (editor of the Journal of the A.S.P.R., New York), and with the editor of the Journal of the S.P.R., London on the above subject.


Box 2 A Case of Unexplained Magnetism

William H.W. Sabine's notes and correspondence with the manufacturers of the game "Scrabble," and with Mrs. Laura A. Dale, Research Associate at the American Society for Psychical Research.


Box 2 Articles, reviews, and letters contributed by William H.W. Sabine to the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research


Box 2 Sabine, W.H.H., Second light in dally life, 1949

Typed manuscript, bound. Original edition, mounted on paper with revision and additions made by the author in type script and manuscript.


Box 2 Correspondence relating to the publication of William H.W. Sabine's Second sight in daily life, together with letters from readers, etc.


Box 2 Sabine, W.H.H. Evidence tending to indicate that Stella Lipinski Sabine survived physical death… As recorded by her husband, 1992

Typed manuscript, 28 pages, xerox copy in a binder



Box 3 Materials relating to the history of the Stars and Stripes


Box 3 Folder of loose sheets

Notes, photocopies, correspondence


Box 3 Book, East Indiamen: The East India Company's Maritime Service, by Sir Evan Cotton, Ed. by Sir Charles Fawcett


Box 3 Magazines (articles on the U.S. flag)


Box 3 National Geographic, 1917 October


Box 3 National Geographic, 1934 September


Box 3 Mariner's Mirror, 1937 October


Box 3 National Geographic, 1949 May

Pages 633-657 only


Box 3 National Geographic, 1959 July

Pages 85-121 only


Box 3 Correspondence between William H.W. Sabine and Richard K. MacMastsr, S.J., 1952 September 19-1960 April 25

Chiefly on their historical interests: in Sabine's case especially his publications on Woodhull, Fitch, and Smith; and in MacMaster's case his researches into the careers of Catholic priests and laymen of Scottish ancestry in North America in the colonial era.


Box 3 Correspondence between Peter Decker and William H.W. Sabine

On various matters including the inclusion of William Smith's Historical Memoirs and Jabez Fitch's Diary in the Arno Press's "Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution", ed. Peter Decker; also including reference to Sabine's Murder, 1776, and Letter About Distorted History.


Box 3 Correspondence between Sabine and the New York Public Library, Re: William Smith's Historical Memoirs, 1955-1972



Box 4 Correspondence, etc. relating to William H.W. Sabine's Murder, 1776, and Washington's Policy of Silence, 1973; also with some reference to A Letter about Distorted History, 1975, 1973, 1975


Box 4 Mary Gibbons: the only play about George Washington & the beautiful girl from New Jersey

Mimeograph copies of 2 versions of play script by Sabine


Box 4 Woodhull

A shortened version, in the form of a story, of the Secret History of General Woodhull. The latter work, restyled The Suppressed History of General Woodhull, was published in 1954. Typed manuscript, 119 pages, with 2 maps


Box 4 A Tragedy of 1776

Also includes correspondence about the Woodhull Monument.


Box 4 Young John of Gaunt; a poem in fourteen cantos.

Annotated, manuscript, signed, 96 pages


Box 4 2 19th century drawings


Box 4 22 engraved American portraits


Box 4 5 printed maps regarding the American Civil & Revolutionary Wars