Collection Outline
Patience Worth Record. Boulder, Colorado, 1920: October 29.
Patience Worth Record. 1930: January 13.
Autograph [transcription] in pencil.
Typescript poems. (untitled), "Life's Caravan", "Life and Me", "A Prayer", "The Sundial Speaks".
Autograph [transcribed poem] manuscript.
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Descriptive Summary |
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| Creator: | Worth , Patience | |
| Title: | Patience Worth Collection | |
| Identification: | VMF196[Accession: 1755] | |
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Patience Worth was a fictional figure who used Mrs. Pearl Curran (1883-1937) as a medium from 1913 until Mrs. Curran's death. Through Mrs. Curran, "Patience Worth" transmitted poems, plays, and novels.
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These items relate to the seances at which "Patience" spoke, and include parts of the Patience Worth Record, a series of accounts and transcripts of each Patience Worth session.
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Collection is open to research.
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Gift of Mrs. Warren B. Lammert
Date accessioned: March 2, 1988
Appraised by Peter Howard of Serendipity Books
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Patience Worth Record. Boulder, Colorado, , 1920: October 29. (2 items (8 pp.): TS [carbon]) |
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Patience Worth Record. , 1930: January 13. (1 item (8 pp.)) |
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"My Beloved"., (1 item (2 pp.)) |
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| Autograph poem by "Patience Worth" | |||||||||||||
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Autograph [transcription] in pencil., (1 item (5 pp.)) |
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Typescript poems. (untitled), "Life's Caravan", "Life and Me", "A Prayer", "The Sundial Speaks"., (3 items (6 pp.)) |
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Autograph [transcribed poem] manuscript., (1 item (1 p.)) |
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Typescript poem on card., (1 item (1 p.)) |
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| Appears to be a Christmas card. | |||||||||||||
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Newspaper clippings about Patience Worth: St. Louis Globe-Democrat Magazine, 1980: Oct. 25-26, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1972: April 2., |
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