Parapsychology Laboratory Records, 1893-1984
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitleParapsychology Laboratory Records,
1893-1984
Creator
Parapsychology Laboratory
Extent
340 Linear Feet
250,000 Items
Repository
250,000 Items
Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
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Use Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], The Records of the Parapsychology Laboratory, 1893-1984, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Parapsychology Laboratory Records were donated to the Duke University Library between 1961 and 1986 by Drs. J. B. and L. E. Rhine and by the Institute for Parapsychology of the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, Durham, North Carolina.
Processing Information
Processed by: Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Staff
Encoded by Stephen Douglas Miller and Alvin Pollock
Although the Parapsychology Laboratory became the Institute for Parapsychology (at the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man) in 1965, the bulk of the records (ca. 85%) represented here relate to the earlier Parapsychology Laboratory period (1930-1965). For this reason, this collection has been cataloged under the heading for the earlier name. Added entries have been made for earlier and later forms of the laboratory's name.
The general order of the records before processing may be determined from a box list prepared in October 1986 and from index cards that include detailed accounts of the contents of each box, prepared in the initial stages of processing (see Information Box shelved with collection). The records at this time were loosely grouped according to the series and subseries that were established during processing. In arranging the collection, an effort was made to follow the original order.
The order of most of the correspondence is reverse chronological, although there are a few files in which it is chronological. The inconsistency was the creators', and was not disturbed. Many research and other files are reverse chronological or have general information in the back.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Historical Note
Parapsychology Laboratory| 1927 | Duke Psychology Department established with William McDougall as Chairman |
| 1930 | ESP research began in Psychology Laboratory |
| 1934 | PK research began in Psychology Laboratory |
| 1935 | Parapsychology Laboratory established within Psychology Department; McDougall Research Fund created to support work of Laboratory |
| 1937, Mar. | Journal of Parapsychology inaugurated with J. B. Rhine as senior editor |
| 1939 | Journal of Parapsychology editorship transferred to G. Murphy and B. Reiss |
| 1942 | Journal of Parapsychology editorship returned to Parapsychology Laboratory, with Rhine as senior editor |
| 1947 | Parapsychology Laboratory moved out of Psychology Department and became Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University |
| 1957 | Parapsychological Association established at Duke under auspices of Parapsychology Laboratory |
| 1960-1963 | Psychical Research Foundation established, operating out of Parapsychology Laboratory |
| 1962 | Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man established in Durham with Rhine as Director |
| 1965, Aug. | Parapsychology Laboratory closed at Duke; moved to Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man as Institute for Parapsychology |
| 1971-1972 | Helmut Schmidt became Director of Institute for Parapsychology; Rhine remained Director of Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man |
| 1973-1974 | Jay Levy became Director of Institute for Parapsychology |
| 1975 | Rhine resumes Directorship of Institute for Parapsychology |
| 1977 | K. R. Rao became Director of Institute for Parapsychology |
| 1895, Sept. 29 | Born, Waterloo, Pennsylvania |
| 1917-1919 | Served in Marine Corps |
| 1920, Apr. | Married Louisa Ellen Weckesser |
| 1922 | B.S. in Biology from University of Chicago |
| 1923 | M.S. in Biology from University of Chicago |
| 1923-1924 | Research Fellow in plant physiology at Boyce Thompson Institute, Yonkers, NY |
| 1924-1926 | Instructor in Botany, West Virginia University, Morgantown |
| 1925 | Ph.D. in Biology from University of Chicago |
| 1926, Fall | Sittings with Minnie Soule for J. F. Thomas |
| 1926-1927 | Studied Philosophy at Harvard |
| 1927, Fall | Went to Duke on behalf of J. F. Thomas |
| 1927-1929 | Research Assistant to Thomas and McDougall |
| 1928-1929 | Instructor in Philosophy and Psychology |
| 1929 | Assistant Professor of Psychology, Duke |
| 1930, Fall | Began ESP experiments |
| 1937 | Professor of Psychology, Duke |
| 1937 | Founded Journal of Parapsychology with William McDougall |
| 1950 | Retired from teaching |
| 1962 | Established Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man in Durham |
| 1965 | Retired from Duke faculty |
| 1979 | Elected President of (London-based) Society for Psychical Research |
| 1980, Feb. 20 | Died, Hillsborough, North Carolina |
Publications: Extra Sensory Perception (1934), New Frontiers of the Mind (1937), Extra-Sensory Perception after 60 Years (1940), Reach of the Mind (1947), New World of the Mind (1953), and Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind (1957).
Joseph Gaither Pratt| 1910, Aug. 31 | Born, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| 1931 | B.A. from Duke |
| 1932-1934 | Worked at Parapsychology Laboratory |
| 1933 | M.A. in Psychology from Duke |
| 1935-1937 | Studied under Gardner Murphy at Columbia |
| 1936 | Ph.D. in Psychology from Duke |
| 1936 | Married Nellie Ruth Pratt |
| 1937 | Co-author of Handbook for Testing Extra-Sensory Perception |
| 1938 | Returned to Duke and full time work at Parapsychology Laboratory |
| 1938-1940? | Unpaid Instructor of Psychology at Duke |
| 1940 | Co-author of Extra-Sensory Perception After 60 Years |
| 1942-1946 | Served in U.S. Navy |
| 1942-1963 | Joint editor of Journal of Parapsychology |
| 1946 | Returned to Parapsychology Laboratory |
| 1947-1963 | Treasurer of Parapsychology Laboratory |
| 1960 | President of Parapsychological Association |
| 1963, July 1 | Left Parapsychology Laboratory |
| 1964-1976 | Professor of Psychiatry at University of Virginia |
| 1964-1979 | Research Associate at Division of Parapsychology, Department of Psychiatry, Univer. of Virginia |
| 1979, Nov. 3 | Died outside of Charlottesville, Va. |
Collection Overview
The Parapsychology Laboratory records span the years 1919-1984, with the exception of an 1893 letter written by Richard Hodgson, Secretary of the American Society for Psychical Research, to William James. Included are personal papers of J. B. Rhine, J. G. Pratt, L. E. Rhine and other Laboratory staff, as well as professional correspondence, research records, legal and financial papers, clippings, and photographs. Over half the collection is represented by correspondence, and about a third of it by research files. Included are editorial files (1942-1959) of Dorothy Pope, Managing Editor of the Journal of Parapsychology, and papers (1957-1963) relating to the tenures of Rhea White and J. G. Pratt as officers of the Parapsychological Association.
The collection reveals a comprehensive picture of the Laboratory during its existence at Duke. The extensive research records make it possible to trace the development of research concerns and methodology. The collection also provides a detailed picture of Rhine's life and career, and because J. B. Rhine and the Parapsychology Laboratory were so closely involved with the development of modern parapsychology, it provides an unequalled resource for understanding the history of the field. The collection would support a variety of studies in biography and in the history and sociology of science.
The bulk of the collection relates to the period (1930-65) when the Parapsychology Laboratory operated at Duke. The period before the Rhines arrived at Duke (1919-1927) is well documented in the Correspondence Series, although not in other parts of the collection. Coverage of the subsequent period (from 1965) when activities were transferred to the Institute for Parapsychology of the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man is uneven. The later period is best documented in the Correspondence Series, which continues through J. B. Rhine's death in 1980 to L. E. Rhine's death in 1983. The later period is also covered in the J. B. Rhine Miscellaneous Files Series and in the Clippings Series.
An important theme of the collection is the relationship of the Laboratory to Duke University. Materials bearing on this question are contained in the Correspondence Series, in the J. B. Rhine Miscellaneous Files Series, and in the Financial Papers Series. The original research was conducted under the direction of William McDougall, Chairman of the Psychology Department, with the support of Duke President W. P. Few, University President. With the deaths of McDougall in 1938 and Few in 1940, support began to weaken. Although Rhine tried at least from the early 1940s to have a special Institute for Parapsychology established at Duke, he was never successful. The University, however, did supply material and financial assistance in the forms of office and research space, salaries of the secretaries and the Director, and research grants through the Graduate Research Council. In 1962, University support for parapsychological research on a smaller scale was considered. The decision to leave Duke was part of the reason for J. G. Pratt's resignation from the staff in 1963. Rhine continued to hope that the Laboratory would eventually be re-affiliated with the University, a possibility he raised as late as 1979 with Duke President Terry Sanford.
The history of the Parapsychology Laboratory must be viewed within the context of the development of the field of parapsychology as a whole, which in turn is bound up with the personal history of J. B. Rhine. The period between 1930 and 1980 was crucial for the development of modern parapsychology, and Rhine's role in the process was pivotal. Rhine was largely responsible for instituting an experimental paradigm in parapsychology--which at the time he began his work at Duke was largely concerned with the study of mediumship and the question of survival after death. The field at the end of his life looked very different from the way it did when he began his career.
J. B. and L. E. Rhine received their Ph.D.s in Botany from the University of Chicago. The first boxes of the Correspondence Series document their disenchantment with botany, and their growing involvement in psychical research, as parapsychology was then known. J. B. Rhine's early research assistanceships (1927-1929) with J. F. Thomas and William McDougall at Duke are undocumented, as are the first ESP experiments conducted at Duke (1930). However, there is some material, mostly in the Alphanumeric Files subseries of the Research Files Series, relating to the work Rhine reported in Extra-Sensory Perception (1934).
Rhine's early correspondents (1919-1934) include persons active in psychical research circles, such as Theodore Besterman, Whately Carington, Hereward Carrington, Hans Driesch, Nandor Fodor, Hornell Hart, William McDougall, Gardner Murphy, W. F. Prince, H. F. Saltmarsh, J. F. Thomas, and Elwood Worcester. Rhine began a regular correspondence with the writer Upton Sinclair following the publication of the latter's book, Mental Radio (1930). Rhine also began a lifelong correspondence with some of his early experimental subjects and laboratory assistants, among them T. Coleman Cooper, Harvey Frick, A. J. Linzmayer, Hubert Pearce, and George and Sara Zirkle.
Extra-Sensory Perception brought Rhine international attention, and from 1935 onwards there is a substantial amount of correspondence, much of it with major figures in parapsychology and other fields. Included are C. G. Abbot, G. E. Buck, C. Ray Carpenter, Alexis Carrel, R. Winfred George, O. L. Reiser, C. Hilton Rice, Lucien Warner, Warren Weaver, and Goodrich C. White. Many of these persons undertook research projects of their own. Established parapsychologists such as Hans Bender, S. G. Soal, Robert Thouless, and G. N. M. Tyrrell, also enter the correspondence around this time, as do persons who spent time on the Laboratory staff, including Esther Bond Foster, J. G. Pratt, Burke M. Smith, Charles E. Stuart, J. L. Woodruff, and the statisticians, J. A. Greenwood, T. N. E. Greville.
Rhine's work was brought forcibly to public attention in the fall of 1937 with the simultaneous broadcast of a series of ESP experiments sponsored by the Zenith Radio Corporation and the publication of New Frontiers of the Mind, a popular book which was chosen as a main selection by the Book of the Month Club. The first manufactured ESP cards were produced, offered to Zenith listeners and Book of the Month Club members, and advertised for sale by Farrar and Rinehart, the book's publishers. Also in 1937, the Journal of Parapsychology, edited at the Laboratory, began to be issued by the Duke University Press. The late 1930s was also a time of controversy for Rhine, beginning with early criticisms by R. R. Willoughby, J. L. Kennedy, Dael Woffle, and Charles Kellogg, much of which is reflected in Rhine's correspondence. An attempt to counter the criticisms was made in 1940 in the scholarly book, Extra-Sensory Perception after Sixty Years, which Rhine co-authored with Pratt, Smith, Stuart, and Greenwood.
Rhine's influence on the scientific world began to be most strongly felt during the post-World-War-II period when the modern field of parapsychology began to take shape. Correspondents during this time include W. E. Cox, Jan Ehrenwald, Jule Eisenbud, Robert A. McConnell, Carroll Nash, Gertrude Schmeidler, and later on, Charles Honorton, Stanley Krippner, Robert L. Morris, K. R. Rao, W. G. Roll, Rex Stanford, Ian Stevenson, and Charles T. Tart. Correspondence with some of these persons begins with their student years and continues as they assume professional positions. On the international scene, Rhine began regular correspondence with Remy Cadoret, C. T. K. Chari, Remy Chauvin, Haakon Forwald, Alexander Imich, Martin Johnson, H. H. J. Keil, M. C. Marsh, Hiroshi Motioyama, E. K. Naumov, Soji Otani, J. J. Poortman, Milan Ryzl,and Christiane and Paul Vasse. The culmination of this period came in 1957 with the establishment of the international Parapsychological Association, with many of these persons as charter members.
Rhine's prominence may be estimated by the amount of correspondence he had with persons in fields other than parapsychology. Among the psychologists and psychoanalysts with whom he had considerable correspondence were George Estabrooks, Hans J. Eysenck, Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley, Joseph Jastrow, C. G. Jung, Timothy Leary, Leslie M. LeCron, and C. A. Meier, also appear prominently, as does Henry Margenau. Anthropologists represented in the correspondence include Weston La Barre, Ralph Linton, Robert Lowie, Margaret Mead, Ronald Rose, and John Swanton. Philosophers include C. D. Broad, C. J. Ducasse, and H. H. Price.
Although the Parapsychology Laboratory was supported by Duke to some extent, most of its funding came from private sources. Benefactors included Ellen A. Wood, Florence Anspacher, Marie Higby Avery, Henry W. Belk, W. P. Bentley, Frances Bolton, Chester F. Carlson, Eileen Garrett, Gertrude Maurin, O. K. Merritt, Charles E. Ozanne, and W. Clement Stone. The correspondence reveals that many of these persons were more interested in the question of spirit survival than they were in the experimental problems the laboratory investigated. The Laboratory also received grants from private foundations and government agencies, notably the Rockefeller Foundation (1950-54) and the Office of Naval Research (1953-59), the latter for research on homing pigeons conducted under Pratt's direction.
Rhine ceased to be directly involved in research around 1945, and began to devote full time to correspondence, fund raising, writing, and lecturing. Drafts of several of Rhine's books and other writings are contained in the J. B. Rhine Miscellaneous Files Series, while his correspondence with editors and publishers is found throughout the Correspondence Series. Rhine's teaching responsibilities are reflected in lecture notes, term papers, department communiques, and other records in the Correspondence and J. B. Rhine Miscellaneous Files Series. The Clippings Series contains copies of many of Rhine's journalistic publications.
The key to the collection is in many ways the J. B. Rhine Miscellaneous Files series. The Personal Files subseries includes not only correspondence of a personal nature, but also materials considered sensitive or critical, especially relating to the Laboratory's relationship to Duke University. The bulk of the parallel Correspondence Series is formed of Rhine correspondence, but includes much material relating to other staff members. In other sections of the collection, Rhine is much less prominent. His presence in the Research Files Series is relatively slight, and he appears in few other series except Clippings. Rhine emerges as the administrative head of the Laboratory, most of whose management and day-to-day activities, apart from correspondence, were conducted by other persons, especially Pratt.
L. E. Rhine's connection to the Parapsychology Laboratory is considerably less well documented than is her husband's. L. E. Rhine's personal correspondence is contained in the J. B. Rhine Miscellaneaous Files Series. There are also occasional letters to and from L. E. Rhine interfiled with correspondence of J. B. Rhine (and other Laboratory staff members) in the Correspondence Series. L. E. Rhine's involvement in some of the research, especially as an experimental subject, is reflected in the Research Files Series, but the collection contains no records of her work with spontaneous case reports. The major portion of the case collection remains at the Institute for Parapsychology.
J. G. Pratt's personal life, his Parapsychology Laboratory (1937-1963) work, and other professional involvement in parapsychology are well documented in the collection. The bulk of Pratt's correspondence is in the J. G. Pratt Miscellaneous Files Series, but there is some also in the Correspondence Series (much of it in staff folders), and in the Research Files Series. Some of the latter relates to Pratt's roles as an editor of the Journal of Parapsychology. Pratt's substantial contribution to the
Laboratory's research is evident in the large number of boxes (51) devoted to his work in the Experimenter Files subseries of the Research Files series and in his association with many other parts of the collection.
The earliest Pratt research files relate not to parapsychology, but to rat studies he conducted for his M.A. and Ph.D. theses under Donald K. Adams. There is a considerable amount of material relating to work Pratt did in New York, while he was at Columbia University studying with Gardner Murphy (1935-37). Other records relate to studies of Eileen Garrett (1945-47). There are several boxes of records pertaining to Pratt's research with homing pigeons (1953-58). Later research files include letters received by the Herrmann family after the Seaford (Long Island) poltergeist disturbances became public. Records of other Pratt work, such as that with Hubert Pearce and the series of experiments conducted with J. L. Woodruff, are contained in other parts of the Research Files Series. Pratt is also represented in the Financial Records and Parapsychological Association Records Series.
Other Laboratory staff members represented by a substantial amount of material include E. Paul Gibson, Betty M. Humphrey, Elizabeth A. McMahan, Winifred Nielsen, Karlis Osis, Dorothy Pope, Burke M. Smith, Charles E. Stuart, Rhea White, and J. L. Woodruff. The bulk of the material relating to most of these persons is in the Research Files Series, and may include personal and professional correspondence, some of it research records. Several of these persons are also represented in the Correspondence Series, often in Staff files. The files of Dorothy Pope are contained in the Journal of Parapsychology Records Series. Rhea White is represented in the Correspondence Series, in the Research Files series, and in the Parapsychological Association Records Series.
The collection contains not only records of work conducted at the Parapsychology Laboratory, but also a considerable amount of material related to research using similar methods done by persons working elsewhere. In some of this outside research, experimenters worked closely with Laboratory staff members, whereas in other cases the research was done independently but was evaluated or prepared for publication by staff members. Some of the outside research is reflected in the Correspondence series, which contains many research records. The bulk of this research is contained in the Research Files Series, where it is most often associated with one of the staff members listed in the last paragraph. In exceptional cases, files are associated with outside experimenters themselves. Most prominent among these are Margaret Anderson, E. Paul Gibson (who in the later 1930s was a member of the Laboratory staff), Olivia Rivers, and J. G. van Busschbach. The Research Files Series also includes several laboratory notebooks (1912-1917) kept by J. E. Coover at Stanford University. Original records of research conducted by Dorothy Martin and F. P. Stribic at the University of Colorado are contained in the Experimenter Files subseries of the Research Files series under Pratt's name.
Several manuscript collections related to the Parapsychology Laboratory Records are available in the Manuscript Department and in the Duke University Archives. The most important related collection may be the personal papers of L. E. Rhine. The papers of Gertrude Schmeidler are available in the Manuscript Department as well, as are records of the Parapsychological Association, placed on deposit by W. G. Roll. Tape recordings of interviews conducted by S. H. Mauskopf and M. R. McVaugh during research for their book, The Elusive Science (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980), as well as other notes, including a card file calendaring of Rhine's early correspondence, are also available. The papers of William McDougall are available in the Archives. The Institute for Parapsychology retains most of the original correspondence and classifications of L. E. Rhine's case collection project, as well as editorial records of the Journal of Parapsychology and records of research conducted at the Institute for Parapsychology after 1965. For information on related collections in other repositories, see the article
"Archives and Psychical Research"
(Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1987), a copy of which is in the unnumbered Information Box shelved with the collection.
Published sources of an historical or biographical nature are also available. In addition to The Elusive Science, which tells the story of Rhine's career and the history of experimental parapsychology to 1940, see D. Brian, The Enchanted Voyager (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1982), for an authorized biography of Rhine. Other biographical material on Rhine is to be found in K. R. Rao, J. B. Rhine: On the Frontiers of Science (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1982), A. S. Berger, Lives and Letters in American Parapsychology (McFarland, 1988), and L. E. Rhine's biography/autobiography, Something Hidden (McFarland, 1983). Material on L. E. Rhine is contained in her book and in K. R. Rao, Case Studies in Parapsychology (McFarland, 1986), which includes a biographical essay by the Rhines' daughter, Sally Rhine Feather Hendrickson. Material on Pratt is contained in his autobiography, Parapsychology: An Insider's View of ESP (New York: Doubleday, 1964) and in J. Keil (Ed.), Gaither Pratt: A Life for Parapsychology (McFarland, 1987), as well as in Berger's Lives and Letters in American Parapsychology. Lesser figures in the history of the Parapsychology Laboratory have not yet received in-depth treatment, although biographical material is available on many of them in the form of obituaries or other notes in the Journal of Parapsychology.
| BM | Blind matching |
| BT | Before touching |
| DT | Down through |
| ESP | Extrasensory perception |
| GESP | General extrasensory perception |
| LD | Long distance |
| PDT | Precognitive down through |
| PK | Psychokinesis |
| PM | Preferred matching |
| PS | Psychic shuffle |
| PT | Pure telepathy |
| QD | Quarter distribution |
| RDT | Retrocognitive down through |
| STM | Screened touch matching |
Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Parapsychology Laboratory.
- Rhine, J. B. (Joseph Banks), 1895-1980.
- Pratt, J. Gaither (Joseph Gaither), 1910-1979.
- Institute for Parapsychology Records, 1965-1980.
- Duke University. Psychology Department.
- Parapsychological Association.
- White, Rhea.
- Psychical Research Foundation.
- Pope, Dorothy.
- Rhine, Louisa E., 1891-1983.
- Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.
- McDougall, William, 1871-1938.
- Carrington, Hereward, 1880-1959.
- Murphy, Gardner, 1895-
- Reiser, Oliver Leslie, 1895-1974.
- Weaver, Warren, 1894-
- Stevenson, Ian.
- Jastrow, Joseph, 1863-1944.
- Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.
- Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.
- Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975.
- Margenau, Henry, 1901-
- Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.
- Journal of Parapsychology.
- Parapsychology--Research.
- Extrasensory perception.
- Psychokinesis.
- Displacement (psychology).
- Research grants.
- Mediums.
- Spirits.
- Teachers.
Related Material
The Papers of Parapsychology Laboratory are related to the following collections also held by the Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Louisa E. Rhine Papers, 1890-1983
5 Linear Feet; 3,800 Items
Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Gertrude Raffel Schmeidler Papers, 1943-1983
30.8 Linear Feet; 24,000 Items
Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Detailed Description of Collection
Correspondence, 1893 and 1919-1984.
380 containers (190 lin. ft.)
Personal and professional correspondence of J. B. Rhine along with correspondence of Parapsychology Laboratory staff members. The 1893 letter is a holograph letter from Richard Hodgson, Secretary of the American Society for Psychical Research, to William James. The 1919-1927 correspondence covers the period before Rhine came to Duke. From 1927 the correspondence reflects primarily Rhine's activities, but contains some letters written to and by other laboratory staff members. The last files include memorial letters written after the death of J. B. Rhine (1980). Includes subject files, research records, clippings, and photographs. Arranged chronologically, 1893-1936. Arranged chronologically by year, then alphabetically by correspondent in reverse chronological order, 1937-1984.
Box 1
Correspondence, 1893,
1919-1926
(4 folders)
Experimental Data, 1926
Weckesser Notes, 1926
Manuscripts, Literary and Philosophical, 1926-1927
Poetry and Songs, 1926-1935
Box 2
1927, January - December
(3 folders)
Wittenburg (Ohio) Conference
Harvard Research on “Margery”
(2 folders)
Notes on psychical research
Rhine writings
(2 folders)
Talking animals
Thomas, John
Box 3
1928, January - December
(3 folders)
“Lady”
1929, January - December
(2 folders)
Course Notes
Seminar on psychic research
Box 4
1930, January - December
(2 folders)
The Aetiology Of A “Psychical” Legend
1931, January - December
(3 folders)
Bills and Finances
Notes and Writings
Miscellaneous
1932, January- April
Box 5
1932, May - December
(4 folders)
Correspondence with students
Notes on statistical problems
Experimental Religion
1933, January - December
(5 folders)
Box 6
1933, students, January - December
(2 folders)
1934, January - July 15
(9 folders)
Box 7
1934, July 16- November 30
(9 folders)
Box 8
1934 Decemberand Undated
(3 folders)
Garrett Sittings
1935, January - February 19
(4 folders)
Box 9
1935, February 20- March 18
(3 folders)
Box 10
1935, March 19 - June 26
(8 folders)
Box 11
1935, June 27 - August 31
(9 folders)
Box 12
1935, September 1- December 15
(9 folders)
Box 13
1935, December 16-31and Undated
(4 folders)
Manuscripts
Miscellaneous
Willoughby Papers
Box 14
1936, January 1- 28
(4 folders)
Box 14
1936, January 29- March 11
(8 folders)
Box 15
1936, March 12- April 24
(7 folders)
Box 16
1936, April 25- June 20
(8 folders)
Box 17
1936, June 21 - September 22
(8 folders)
Box 18
1936, September 23 - November 21
(8 folders)
Box 19
1936, November 22- December 30
(7 folders)
Box 20
1936,Undated
(2 folders)
Manuscripts
Testing Apparatus
Box 21
1937
Aa - Az
(2 folders)
Allen, Irving B.
Atlantic Playing Card Co.
Ba - Bz
(3 folders)
Bryant, Paul
Bond, Esther
Boston Society for Psychic Research
Box 22
Ca - Cz
Carpenter, Ray
Clark, C.C.
Crandall, Ella Phillips
Da - Dz
(2 folders)
Duke University
E
ESP In General
Box 23
Experiences
Fa - Fz
(2 folders)
Farrar and Rhinehart
(2 folders)
Free, E.E.
Ga - Gz
(2 folders)
Box 24
George, R. Wilfred
Gibson, Edmund Paul
Greenwood, Joseph A.
Ha - Hz
(3 folders)
Helman, “Genie”
(2 folders)
Huntington, Edward V.
Box 25
I - J
Journal of Parapsychology
(2 folders)
K
Kaempffert, Waldemer
La - Lh
Box 26
Li - Lz
Lists
Ma - Mz
McDonald, E.F.
Box 27
McDougal, William
McFarland, J.D.
Manuscripts
Murphy, Gardner
N
No Reply
O
Ozanne, C.
Pa - Pz
(2 folders)
Box 28
Pegram, Margaret
Pratt, Joseph Gaither
Q - Rz
(2 folders)
Rice, Hilton
Rumely, Edward A.
Sa - Ss
(2 folders)
Box 29
ST - Sz
Sharp, Vernon
Shulman, Robert
Sinclair, Upton
Smith, Burke
Stuart, Charles E.
T
Thomas, John F.
U - V
Wa - Wg
Box 30
Wh - Wz
(2 folders)
Warner, Lucien
Whitman Publishing Co.
Woodruff, Joseph L.
X - Z
Zirble, George and Sara
Zenith Radio Show
(2 folders)
Box 31
1937,Staff A - Z
(6 folders)
Staff, MacFarland, J.D.
Staff, Rhine, J.B.
1938
Aa - Al
Box 32
Am - Az
Abbot, C.
Ba - Bz
(5 folders)
Bond, Esther
Buck, G.
Box 33
Ca - Cz
(4 folders)
Carpenter, C. Ray
Crumbough, Jane C.
Cox, Mrs. G.H.
Da - Dp
(3 folders)
Box 34
Dr - Dz
E
ESP Test Machine
Fa - Fz
(3 folders)
Farrar and Rhinehart
Free, E.E.
Frick, Harvey L.
Ga - Gi
Box 35
Gl - Gz
(3 folders)
George, R. Wilfred
Greville, Thomas N.E.
Ha - Hz
(4 folders)
Harding, Dorothy
Huntington, E.V.
Box 36
I - J
(2 folders)
Journal of Parapsychology
(2 folders)
Ka - Kz
(2 folders)
Kaempffert, Waldemar
Kirby, G.
Box 37
La -Mz
(7 folders)
McDonald, E.
Martin, Dorothy
Box 38
McFarland, J.D.
(2 folders)
Manuscripts
Murphy, Gardner
N
No Reply
O
Ozanne, Charles E.
Pa - Pn
Box 39
Po - Pz
Parapsychology Committee
Pre-publication Questionaire
Price, Peggy
Q - Rz
(3 folders)
Rothera, Ralph E.
Sa - Sj
(2 folders)
Box 40
Sl - Sz
(3 folders)
Shulmen, Robert
Society for Psychical Research
Statements on ESP Needs
Subjects (experimental)
Suggestions
Symposium on ESP at Columbus
T - V
(3 folders)
Box 41
Wa- Wz
(4 folders)
Warner, Lucien
Woodruff, Joseph L.
X - Z
Zenith Radio
Zirkle, George
1938,Staff A - Z
Staff, Moore, Duncan
1939
A
Box 42
Aschaffenberg Handwriting Experiment
Ba - Dz
(8 folders)
Douglam, Ann
Box 43
E
ESP After 60 Years: Correspondence with Critics
Experience
Fa - Fz
(2 folders)
Farrar and Rhinehart
Foster, A.A.
Ga - Gz
(2 folders)
George, Dr.R.W.
Goodfellow Telepathy Game
Graduate Research Council
Box 44
Ha - Hz
(3 folders)
Holz, Arthur
Hopkins, Mary de Witt
Humphrey, Betty
Hutchinson, Lois
I - J
Journal of Parapsychology
Ka - Kz
(2 folders)
Kennedy, John L.
La - Lk
Box 45
Li - Lz
Lists
Ma - Mz
(3 folders)
Marchesi, Karlo
MacFarland, James D.
Martin, Dorothy
Murphy, Gardner
N
No Reply
O
Box 46
Ozanne, Charles E.
Pa - Pz
(2 folders)
Parapsychology Department
Q - Rz
(2 folders)
Russell, William
Sa - Ss
Box 47
St - Sz
Siegel, Paul
Sisler, Ward
Slaughter, Maxine
Sloan, William
Stuart, Charles E.
Ta - Zz
(5 folders)
Box 48
1939,Staff A - Z
1940
A - Cz
(7 folders)
Corington, W. Whately
Coffin, J.G.
Crumbaugh, Jones
Box 49
D - E
(2 folders)
ESP Box Experiment
Experiences
Fa - Gz
(4 folders)
George, R. Wilfred
Ha - Hz
(2 folders)
Henry Halt and Co.
Box 50
Handwriting Experiment
Holz, Arthur
Humphrey, Betty
I - J
(2 folders)
Journal of Parapsychology
Ka - L
(3 folders)
Life Article Letters
(2 folders)
Box 51
Ma - Mz
(3 folders)
Murphy, Gardner
N
No Reply
(3 folders)
O
Box 52
Ozanne, Charles E.
P
Parapsychology, Lab Brochure
Psychology Department
Q - Rz
(2 folders)
Russell, William
Sa - Sz
(3 folders)
Scientific Monthly Letters
Box 53
Sloan, William
T - Zz
(4 folders)
1940,Staff A - Z
1941
A - Bz
(4 folders)
Box 54
Ca - Cz
(2 folders)
Corington, W. Whately
D - F
(2 folders)
Flowers, Robert L.
Ga - Gz
(2 folders)
Germain, Walter M.
Gibson, Edmund P.
Box 55
Ha - Mz
(9 folders)
Box 56
Murphy, Gardner
(2 folders)
N
No Reply
O
Ozanne, Charles E.
P
Psychology Department
Q - R
Russell, William
Sa - Sn
(2 folders)
Box 57
So - Sz
Snyder, Alice
T - Wz
(3 folders)
Woodruf, Joseph L.
X - Z
1941,Staff A - Z
1942
A
Box 58
Ba - Hn
(10 folders)
Box 59
Ho - Mz
(5 folders)
Murphy, Gardner
N
No Reply
O - R
(3 folders)
Box 60
Sa - Zz
(5 folders)
1942,Staff A - Z
1943
A - Bh
(2 folders)
Box 61
Bi - Cz
(4 folders)
Cox, Alice
Da - Ez
(2 folders)
Endowment Plan
F
Box 62
Ga - L
(7 folders)
Box 63
Ma - N
(4 folders)
No Reply
O
Ozanne, Charles E.
Pa - Ri
(3 folders)
Box 64
Ro - Wg
(7 folders)
Box 65
Wh - Zz
1944
Aa - Bz
(5 folders)
Bentley, W.
Ca - Com
Box 66
Con - Cz
Cornish, Louis
Da - Dz
(2 folders)
Dale, Laura Abbot
E - Grd
(5 folders)
Box 67
Gre - Lz
(8 folders)
Box 68
Ma - N
(4 folders)
No Reply
O
Ozanne, Charles E.
Pa - Pz
(2 folders)
Pratt, Joseph Gaither
Q - Rn
Box 69
Ro - Rz
Russell, William
Sa - Sz
(5 folders)
Box 70
Schmeidler, Gertrude
Stone, Candace
T
Tobey, Carl Payne
U - Z
(5 folders)
1945
Aa - Aspr
(3 folders)
Box 71
Ba - Bz
(3 folders)
Bently, W.
Ca - Dh
(4 folders)
Box 72
Di - Gz
(6 folders)
Garrett, Eileen
Gibson, Edmund Paul
Box 73
Greenwood, Joseph A.
Ha - Mz
(9 folders)
Box 74
Murphy, Gardner
N
News Letters
No Reply
O
Ozanne, Charles E.
P
Piersol, Robert J.
Pratt, Joseph G.
Ra - Rz
(2 folders)
Russell, William
Box 75
Sa - Wz
(8 folders)
Box 76
Wenberg, Dorothy
X - Z
1946
A
Autohypnosis
Ba - Bz
(3 folders)
Bentley, W.P.
Ca - Cn
Box 77
Co - Gp
(7 folders)
Box 78
Gr - Gz
Garrett, Eileen
Gibson, Edmund Paul
Ha - Ll
(6 folders)
Box 79
Li - N
(6 folders)
No Reply
O
Ozanne, Charles E.
Box 80
P
Psychology Department
Q - Sl
(4 folders)
Box 81
Sm - V
(5 folders)
Wenberg, Dorothy
Wa - Wz
(2 folders)
Box 82
X - Z
1947
A - Bz
(3 folders)
Bentley, William P.
Ca - Dn
(3 folders)
Box 83
Do - F
(3 folders)
Fleming, H. King
Form Letters
Ga - Jz
(5 folders)
Box 84
K - Mz
(6 folders)
McConnell, Robert A.
N
Box 85
O
Ozanne, Charles E.
Pa - Pz
(2 folders)
Pearson, Fred
Ra - Sb
(3 folders)
Box 86
Sc - Sz
Sloane, William
(2 folders)
Ta - V
(3 folders)
Box 87
Wa - Zz
(2 folders)
Pratt: Gibson, Edmund Paul
Pratt: Rhine, J.B.
1948
Aa - Az
(3 folders)
American Society for Psychical Research
Box 88
Asana, J.
Ba - Bz
(6 folders)
Box 89
Ball, May
Benson, Stanley
Bentley, William Perry
Ca - Cz
Cornish, Louis G.
Box 90
Da - Dz
(4 folders)
Dakota Weslyan University
Ea - Ez
(2 folders)
Box 91
Fa - Fz
(3 folders)
Foreign Correspondence
Foundation for Integrated Education
Ga - Gz
(4 folders)
Box 92
Ha - I
(6 folders)
Institute of Public Relations
Ja - Jz
(2 folders)
Box 93
Ka - Kz
(3 folders)
Kearful, Jerome
La - Map
(4 folders)
Box 94
Mar - Mz
(6 folders)
MacRobert, Russell G.
McConnell, Robert A.
Box 95
McConnell, Robert A.
N - O
(2 folders)
Ozanne, Charles E.
(2 folders)
Pa - Pn
(3 folders)
Box 96
Po - Pz
Psychology Department
Q - Sch
(7 folders)
Box 97
Sci - Sz
(6 folders)
Box 98
Schaefer, Alice
Sloan, William
Society for Parapsychology
(Washington)
(2 folders)
Ta - Tz
(3 folders)
Box 99
Tanagra, A.
Thouless, Robert A.
Toksuis, Signe
U
Urban, H.J.
V
Vasse, Christiane (Mrs. Pau)
Wa - Wim
(3 folders)
Box 100
Win - Wz
White, Helen G.
Willys, L.
Walther, Gerda
X - Z
Pratt: Gibson, Edmund Paul
Pratt: Hatton, Bert
1949
Aa - Az
(2 folders)
Box 101
Administration
American Society for Psychical Research
Asana, J.J.
Ba - Bz
(5 folders)
Box 102
Bayless, Raymond
Bentley, William Perry
Ca - Dh
(8 folders)
Box 103
Di - Fz
(7 folders)
Box 104
Foundation for Integrated Education
Ga - Gz
(3 folders)
Gibson, Edmund Paul
Ha - Har
(2 folders)
Box 105
Has - Kim
(9 folders)
Box 106
Ki - Map
(8 folders)
Box 107
Mar - Mz
(4 folders)
McConnell, Robert A.
N - O
(2 folders)
Box 108
Ozanne, Charles E.
Pa - Rd
(6 folders)
Box 109
Re - Sh
(8 folders)
Box 110
Si - Sz
(6 folders)
Society for Parapsychology
Sherman, Herold
Box 111
Ta - Tz
(4 folders)
Thouless, Robert H.
U - Wg
(4 folders)
Box 112
Wh - Z
(4 folders)
1950
Aa - Az
(3 folders)
Administration
Box 113
American Society for Psychical Research
Ba - Bz
(6 folders)
Bentley, William Perry
Bulletins
Box 114
Ca - Ez
(9 folders)
Box 115
Fa - Fz
(3 folders)
Foundations
Foundation for Integrated Education
Ga - Gz
(3 folders)
Gibson, Edmund P.
Ha - Haq
Box 116
Har - Hz
(4 folders)
Hornaday, John
I - Kz
(3 folders)
Box 117
La - Mn
(7 folders)
Box 118
Mo - Mz
(2 folders)
McConnell, Robert A.
McElroy, W.A.
Na - O
Ozanne, Charles E.
Box 119
Pa - Rz
(9 folders)
Box 120
Rivers, Olivia
Rockefeller Foundation
Sa- Ss
(7 folders)
Box 121
St - Sz
Society for Psychical Research
Ta - Tz
(4 folders)
Thomas, C.D.
Thouless, Robert M.
Translators
Box 122
U - V
(2 folders)
Vasse, Christiane and Paul
(2 folders)
Wa - Wz
(5 folders)
Box 123
X - Z
Pratt: Rhine, J.B.
1950,Staff
1951
Aa - Az
(2 folders)
Administration
American Society for Psychical Research
Ba - Bt
(4 folders)
Box 124
Bu - Bz
Bentley, William P.
Burrelle's: Anps.
Ca - Dq
(8 folders)
Box 125
Dr - Dz
Dog and Cat References
E - Fz
(4 folders)
Foundations
Foundation for Integrated Education
Ga - Haq
(3 folders)
Box 126
Har - J
(7 folders)
Box 127
Ka - Kz
(2 folders)
Knowles, Frederick W.
La - Mas
(5 folders)
Box 128
Mat - Mz
(3 folders)
McConnell, Robert A.
Marches, Karlo
Na - O
(3 folders)
Box 129
Ozanne, Charles E.
Pa - Pz
(3 folders)
Petree, Martha
Ra - Rz
(4 folders)
Box 130
Rivers, Olivia
Roberts, Kenneth
Rose, Ronald
Sa - Sz
(6 folders)
Box 131
Ta - V
(5 folders)
Vasse, Christiane and Paul
Wa - Wim
(3 folders)
Box 132
Win - Z
(2 folders)
1952
Aa - Az
(2 folders)
Administration
American Society for Psychical Research
American Weekly
Ba - Bi
(3 folders)
Box 133
Bj - Bz
(3 folders)
Buck, Guy E.
Bentley, William Perry
Ca - Cz
(3 folders)
Box 134
Da - Fz
(7 folders)
Filing Clues
Forwald, Haakon
Ga - Gn
Box 135
Go - Hz
(6 folders)
Hart, Hornell
Ja - Jz
(2 folders)
Box 136
Ka - Mas
(9 folders)
Box 137
Mat - Pq
(8 folders)
Box 138
Pr - Pz
(2 folders)
Parapsychology, Friends of
Ra - Ss
(8 folders)
Box 139
Sta - Sz
(2 folders)
Sheffield, Fred and Kaufman S.
Ta - Tz
(2 folders)
Thouless, Robert H.
U - Waq
(3 folders)
Box 140
War - Wz
(4 folders)
Warner Questionaire
(3 folders)
Box 141
X - Z
1953
A
Administration
American Society for Psychical Research
Ba - Bz
(3 folders)
Bentley, William Perry
Ca - Ch
Box 142
Ci - Dz
(4 folders)
Dyne, L.G.
E - Fz
(3 folders)
Box 143
Ga - Hz
(6 folders)
Hart, Hornell
I - Kh
(2 folders)
Box 144
Ki - Mz
(9 folders)
Box 145
N - Pz
(5 folders)
Parapsychology Foundation
Ra - Sh
(5 folders)
Box 146
Si - Sz
(4 folders)
William Sloan Associates
Ta - Tz
(2 folders)
Thouless, Robert H.
U
Box 147
V
Van Busschbach, J.G.
Wa - Z
(3 folders)
1954
Aa - Az
(3 folders)
Administration
Box 148
Ba - Bz
(6 folders)
Box 149
Bentley, William Perry
Ca - Dn
(6 folders)
Box 150
Do - Fz
(7 folders)
Frank, Walter A.
Ga - Gk
Box 151
Gl - Hz
(7 folders)
Hart, Hornell
Box 152
I - MacJ
(8 folders)
Box 153
MacK - Nz
(7 folders)
News, Laboratory
Box 154
O
O'Toole, Charles C.
Pa - Pz
(3 folders)
Parapsychology Foundation
Q - Rn
(2 folders)
Box 155
Rob - Rz
(2 folders)
Reader's Digest
Research Meeting Notes
Sa - So
(5 folders)
Box 156
Sp - Sz
(2 folders)
William Sloan Associates
Ta - Tz
(2 folders)
Tomorrow Magazine
U - V
(2 folders)
Van de Castle, Robert
Box 157
Van de Castle, Robert
Wa - Z
(6 folders)
1954,Staff
Box 158
1955
Aa - Az
(3 folders)
American Society for Psychical Research
Administration
Ba - Bk
(4 folders)
Box 159
Bl - Bz
(4 folders)
Bentley, William Perry
Ca - Coq
(3 folders)
Box 160
Cor - Fot
(8 folders)
Box 161
Fou - Fz
Ferm, Paulie
Forwald, Haakon
Ga - Hd
(5 folders)
Box 162
He - Hz
(2 folders)
Hart, Hornell
I - Ld
(5 folders)
Box 163
Le - Lz
(2 folders)
Lesem, Jack
Ma - Mn
(5 folders)
Box 164
Mo - Prn
(7 folders)
Box 165
Pro - Pz
Parapsychology Foundation
(2 folders)
Ra - Sd
(6 folders)
Box 166
Se - Tz
(9 folders)
Box 167
U - Z
(8 folders)
Zorab, George
Box 168
1955, Staff (Osis)
Staff (Osis) A - Z
(2 folders)
1955, Staff (White) A - Z
(2 folders)
1956
Aa - Az
(3 folders)
Administration
Box 169
American Society for Psychical Research
Ba - Bz
(6 folders)
Bentley, William Perry
Box 170
Ca - Fg
(9 folders)
Box 171
Fr - Hn
(9 folders)
Box 172
Ho - Hz
(2 folders)
Harris, Veronica
I - Ld
(5 folders)