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ROMAN CATHOLICISM
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's printed pamphlet The Roman Catholic Church. A Rejoinder, London: Psychic Press, preface dated August 1929, together with Herbert Thurston, Modern Spiritualism London: Sheed and Ward, 1929, with part of autograph preface by Conan Doyle, dated August 1929, 1 page, 4to and text of pamphlet, 5 pages, 4to; autograph essay by Conan Doyle on opponents of spiritualism: evangelicals, the Roman Catholic party ('Father Vaughan declared in public the other day that I had lost my mental poise ...') and materialists, 3 pages, folio, n. d., with Conan Doyle's autograph notebook on Jesuit history, 7 pages, 4to; letters to Conan Doyle on the dispute (6), press cuttings and a copy of Conan Doyle's The Early Christian Church and Modern Spiritualism, London: Psychic Bookshop [1925].
In his preface Conan Doyle writes, 'Father Thurston ... has written a small book against Spiritualism. As he has made very free with my own name ... it is a challenge.' Thurston had been in the form above Conan Doyle at Stonyhurst and was a dedicated opponent of Spiritualism. (13)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's printed pamphlet The Roman Catholic Church. A Rejoinder, London: Psychic Press, preface dated August 1929, together with Herbert Thurston, Modern Spiritualism London: Sheed and Ward, 1929, with part of autograph preface by Conan Doyle, dated August 1929, 1 page, 4to and text of pamphlet, 5 pages, 4to; autograph essay by Conan Doyle on opponents of spiritualism: evangelicals, the Roman Catholic party ('Father Vaughan declared in public the other day that I had lost my mental poise ...') and materialists, 3 pages, folio, n. d., with Conan Doyle's autograph notebook on Jesuit history, 7 pages, 4to; letters to Conan Doyle on the dispute (6), press cuttings and a copy of Conan Doyle's The Early Christian Church and Modern Spiritualism, London: Psychic Bookshop [1925].
In his preface Conan Doyle writes, 'Father Thurston ... has written a small book against Spiritualism. As he has made very free with my own name ... it is a challenge.' Thurston had been in the form above Conan Doyle at Stonyhurst and was a dedicated opponent of Spiritualism. (13)
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