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mauskopfseymour Inventory of the Seymour Mauskopf Papers, 1930-1993 Processed by: Meghan Lyon; machine-readable finding aid created by: Meghan Lyon David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, N.C., USA

Aleph Number: 002241561

Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: June 2012Processed by Meghan Lyon, June 2012; finding aid encoded by Meghan Lyon, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, June 2012 Description is in English Finding aid was prepared using DACS and local Style Guide Inventory of the Seymour Mauskopf Papers, 1930-1993 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA

Descriptive Summary David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Mauskopf, Seymour H. Seymour Mauskopf Papers, 1930-1993 Material in English 10 Linear Feet 4400 Items For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Duke University Professor of History. Materials and recordings used in preparation for Mauskopf's book, The Elusive Science, and other research on the history of parapsychology and psychical research. Also includes articles by Mauskopf and other historians, scientists, and psychologists. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is restricted. Original audiovisual materials are closed to use.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Seymour Mauskopf Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Provenance

The Seymour Mauskopf Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 2005-2011.

Processing Information

Processed by Meghan Lyon, June 2012

Encoded by Meghan Lyon, June 2012

Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 2005-0071, 2011-0193

This collection is minimally processed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition. Materials remain grouped by their original accessions.

Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and local Style Guide.

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.

Biographical Note

Seymour Mauskopf is a professor emeritus of history at Duke University. He earned an AB from Cornell in 1960 and a PhD from Princeton University in 1966. His research interests include intellectual history, particularly the history of science, ranging from chemistry and the allied sciences in the 18th and 19th centuries to the history of parapyschology and marginal sciences.

Collection Overview

Collection (107 items, dated 1972-1985) contains materials used in preparation for Mauskopf's book, The Elusive Science, co-authored with M.R. McVaugh. Included are audio cassettes, transcripts, and notes. Interviews are with J.B. and Louisa Rhine, B.F. Skinner, Gardner Murphy, J. Gaither Pratt, and other prominent psychologists. Five notebooks contain chiefly Mauskopf's notes on the council minutes of the Society for Psychical Research; and there is also a reel-to-reel tape of an interview with Mrs. K.M. Goldney.

Addition (05-071) (2000 items, 1.6 lin. ft.; dated 1930-1978 and undated) includes miscellaneous correspondence, clippings, and printed material produced by and related to J. B. Rhine and the Parapsychology Laboratory, collected by Mauskopf and McVaugh for The Elusive Science. Includes 11 black-and-white photographs, as well as files of note cards indexing portions of the correspondence files in the Parapsychology Laboratory Records. The addition is open to researchers.

Addition (11-193) (2200 items, 3.0 lin. ft.; dated 1930s-1990s) includes notes and research, including photocopies of primary documents, about the history of parapsychology and pyschical research. The collection also contains some drafts or notes by Mauskopf about The Elusive Science, as well as other writings by him relating to the history of science. Also includes printed materials, miscellaneous correspondence, and articles by other historians, pyschologists, and scientists.

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.

Mauskopf, Seymour H. Mauskopf, Seymour H.--Elusive Science. Parapsychology--Research--History. McVaugh, M.R. (Michael Rogers), 1938- Murphy, Gardner, 1895-1979. Pratt, J. Gaither (Joseph Gaither), 1910-1979. Rhine, J.B. (Joseph Banks), 1895-1980. Rhine, Louisa E., 1891-1983. Skinner, B.E. (Burrhus Frederic), 1904-1990. Contents of Collection Original Accession, 1972-1985 (5 boxes)

Original audiovisual materials are closed to use. This accession has not been processed and no boxlist is available.

1Preservation copies 2Preservation copies 3Use copies 4Use copies 5Unlabeled materials Accession (2005-0071), 1930-1978 (4 boxes)

Original audiovisual materials are closed to use. This accession has not been processed and no boxlist is available.

1-4Accession (2005-0071) Accession (2011-0193), 1930s-1990s (3 boxes)

Research Materials 1Interview notes: J.B. Rhine, Thouless, Murphy, etc. 1Notebook, unlabeled, undated 1Research on Gardner Murphy 1Historical (general) materials 1Primary research photocopies 1Parapsychology: The Elusive Science drafts and notes 1American Society for Pyschical Research research and histories, 1985 1Correspondence notes, 1932-1935 1American Society for Psychical Research primary sources 1American Society for Pyschical Research notes 1Research and correspondence on the Rhines and history of parapsychology, 1970s 1Application for History of Parapsychology grants, 1970s 1Chapter 5 photocopies and notecards 1History of parapsychology research and primary sources 1Multiple personality research articles 1Parapsychology reprints(3 folders) Papers and Writings 1American Society for Pyschical Research papers and presentations 1History of Marginal Science talks, papers, and notes(2 folders) 1The Elusive Science reviews 2Notepads from writings(2 folders) 2Epilogue drafts 2Articles by Mauskopf(3 folders) 2History of Science Encyclopedia entries Other Materials 2Articles by others(3 folders) 2Monte Cooper senior thesis 2Rhine Research Center 2General correspondence on parapsychology, 1970s(2 folders) 2Miscellaneous correspondence, 1980s-1990s 2Photographs Volumes 2Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death, by Frederic W.H. Myers, 1903 (2 volumes of 1954 reprint) 2The Seybert Commission on Spiritualism, 1887 2Preliminary Studies of a Vaudeville Telepathist, 1937 2Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind, 1957 2Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference, 1956 2Extra-sensory Perception After Sixty Years, 1940