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INDEX
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Note: Kinship terms are in relation to Arthur Conan Doyle.
abolitionist movement
Adler, Mr.
Agincourt, Battle of
agnosticism
alphabet communication with spirits
America
abolitionist movement
Doyle’s lecture tours in
suffragist movement
American Scientific Association
American Society for Psychical Research
anesthesia
“Angels” of Mons
Anthony, Susan B.
apports (objects brought from afar)
Arcadia, NY
Arctic, Doyle’s medical service at sea in
atheism
Atherstone, Lieutenant Commander
Atlantic City, NJ
Auburn, New York
Australia
Austro-Hungarian Empire
automatic writing
aviation, progress of, in 1920s
Azores
Bailey, Charles
Baird, Alex
Balfour, Arthur
Ball, Joseph Henry
Bancroft, George
Barrett, Sir William
Beenham, Ethel
Bell, Dr. Joseph
Bell, Mr. and Mrs. John
bell box
Bess (wife of Houdini). See Houdini, Bess
Bey, Rahman
Bible, Doyle’s view of
Bignell Wood, Doyle country house at
Bird, J. Malcolm
birds, Charles Doyle’s fear of
Bissel, Josiah
Black Hawk (Powell’s control)
Blake, William
Blavatsky, Madame
Boer War
Booth, Martin
Boston, MA
Boston Herald
Boston Society for Psychic Research
Braid, James
Braude, Ann
British College of Psychic Science
British Expeditionary Force
British royalty, Doyle’s acquaintance with
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Robert
Bryant, William Cullen
Budd, George Turnavine
Bulwer-Lytton, Robert
bumps and thumps and rustlings
Burtis, W. L.
Bush, Abigail
Bushnell, Mrs. G. B.
Button, William
Caldwell, Dr. Frederick
Cape Town, South Africa
Capron, Eliab Wilkinson
writings of
“The Captain of the ‘Pole-Star’” (Doyle)
Cardington Royal Airship Works
Carlyle, Thomas
Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, Doyle’s lectures at
Carr, John Dickson
Carrington, Dr. Hereward
Carroll, Lewis
casting out of unclean spirits
Catholic Church
ceilidh (gatherings)
The Celestial Telegraph (early spiritualist title)
Celtic stock, Doyle sprung from
Charlton, Will
Chester, Minnie
Chinese Water Torture Cell
Christianity
compared to spiritualism
opposed to spiritualism
Christian spiritualists
Churchill, Winston
Cincinnati, Ohio
clairvoyant, origin of term
Coates, Jane
Collier’s magazine
Collins, Jim
Columbia University
The Coming of the Fairies
Comstock, Dr. Daniel Frost
Coolidge, Calvin
Cooper, James Fenimore
Coster, Ian
Cottingley, Yorkshire, England
Cottingley Beck
Cottingley Fairies case
Crandon, Dr. Le Roi
death from a fall
husband of Margery the Medium
Crandon, Mina. See also “Margery the Medium” (pseudonym)
Crawford table
Crookes, Sir William
Cross, Mr.
Curie, Pierre
Daily Mirror (London)
damnation
fear of
non-Catholics doomed to, according to Jesuits
Darwin, Charles
Davenport brothers
death
fear of
no fear of
detective stories, history of
devil, talking to the
De Wyckoff, Joseph
Dexter, George T.
diagnosis, medical
Dickens, Charles
Didier, Alexis
Dingwall, Eric
dirigibles
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (Lewis Carroll)
Dods, Jennie
Dods, John Bovee
Douglass, Frederick
dowsers
Doyle, Adrian (son)
Doyle, Annette (sister)
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
(1859) birth (May 22)
(1868) at Jesuit preparatory school
(1870) at Stonyhurst College
(1879) first published writing, a medical paper on gelseminum
(1880) ship’s surgeon on an Arctic whaling expedition
(1881) graduation from medical school
(1882) ship’s surgeon on a voyage to West Africa
(1882) opens medical practice in Southsea
(1885) meets and marries Louise Hawkins
(1897) meets Jean Leckie
(1902) knighted for a book in support of the Boer War
(1906) sickness and death of Louise Hawki
ns
(1907) marries Jean Leckie
(1915) becomes committed to spiritualism
(1916) public coming out as spiritualist
(1917) first public lecture on spiritualism
(1920) lecture tour in Australia
(1920) on-stage debate about the truth of spiritualism
(1922) American lecture tour
(1923) concerned about Scientific American investigation
(1923) second American lecture tour
(1927) successful life of, as of this year
(1928–29) lecture tour in South Africa
(1930) interview, filmed
(1930) failing health of
(1930) death (July 7)
(1930) obituary
(1930) funeral
(1930) memorial service in Royal Albert Hall
(1930) séances with, attempted after his death
advocate for spiritualism
attacked for spiritualism
called “The Saint Paul of the New Dispensation”
cartoon caricature of
character and temperament, sunshiny and sweet
children of
country house (Windlesham)
critics of
derided for his preaching of spiritualism
earnings from writing
fame of
fan mail of
gifted at sport
and Hinchliffe case
and Houdini
and Houdini’s death
inquires into spiritualism
interviews with the press
lectures on the truth of spiritualism
letters written and received by
love of adventure
love of reading
medical schooling
memoirs. See Memories and Adventures
name of
net worth in 1928
philosophic inquiries
physical description and appearance
prophecies and warnings, transmitted through Pheneas
as a public speaker
relatives of
religious beliefs
remarks about Fox sisters
ridiculed for advocating fairy photographs
Roman Catholic religious background
runs for Parliament, defeated
seen at his desk
seen with spirit photographs
short stories by
storytelling gift
taunting and heckling at lectures
writing career
writings in defense of spiritualism
Doyle, Charles (father)
charming but unworldly
confined to lunatic asylums
death in a lunatic asylum (1893)
early career of, as designer
illustrations done for A Study in Scarlet
pictures of fairies drawn by
Doyle, Mrs. Charles (mother). See Foley, Mary
Doyle, Conan (uncle)
Doyle, Connie (sister)
Doyle, Denis (son)
Doyle, Innes (brother)
Doyle, James (uncle)
Doyle, Jean (Billy) (daughter)
Doyle, Lady Jean (Leckie) (2nd wife)
in New York City
Doyle, John (grandfather)
Doyle, Kingsley (son)
appears at a séance
dies during the Great War
inspiring Doyle’s looking into spiritualism
Doyle, Lottie (sister)
Doyle, Mrs. Louise Hawkins (1st wife). See Hawkins, Louise
Doyle, Mary (daughter)
Doyle, Richard (Dicky Doyle) (uncle)
Doyle family
artistic gifts of
illustrious lineage of
Drayson, Alfred
Dudley, E. E.
Duesler, Mr. and Mrs. William
du Maurier, George
Dunlap, Dr. Knight
Dutch Reformed Church
Earl, Mrs. Beatrice
ectoplasm
The Edge of the Unknown
Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh Medical School
Edinburgh University
Edison, Thomas
Edmonds, John Worth
eighth principle
the Elect
Elliotson, John
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Endeavour (plane)
Engholm, Harry
England, spiritualism in
Ernst, Bernard
existence, purpose of
exorcism
fairies
anatomy of
Doyle’s belief in
photographs of
popular belief in
reported sightings of
separate species of
fakirs (Hindu ascetics)
familiar spirits
Fife, John “Sherlock”
fingerprints in wax
fire-and-brimstone theology
Flammarion, Camille
Fletcher (Ford’s spiritual guide)
Fodor, Nandor
Foley, Mary “the Ma’am” (mother)
Ford, Arthur
fortune-telling, laws against
Fox, David
Fox, Ella
Fox, John
Fox, Kate
death of
Fox, Leah
memoir (1885)
Fox, Maggie (Margaretta)
death of
publicly renounces spiritualism
recants her recantation
Fox, Margaret (Mrs. John Fox)
Fox, Maria
Fox sisters
connection with suffragism
public séance in New York City (1850)
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, assassination of
fraud-proof cabinet (Houdini’s)
Fuller, John G.
Funk, Isaac
Gardner, Edward
Garland, Hamlin
Garrett, Eileen
Garrison, William Lloyd
gelseminum, Doyle’s study of
Germany
Ghostbusters (2016 remake)
“ghost machine” (Edison’s)
ghosts, fascination with
Gibbens, Eliza
Gillette, William
gnomes, elves, and fairies, belief in
God, belief in
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Great Depression
Great War. See World War I
Greeley, Horace
Gresham, William L.
Griffiths, Frances
Griswold, Reverend Dr.
Gunsolas, Charles
Guppy, Mrs.
Hall, Sir Edward Marshall
Hall, G. Stanley
Hall-Edwards, Major John
Hamilton, Leslie
Hardinge, Emma
Hare, Robert
Harris, J. H.
Hart, John
Harte, Bret
Hatch, Cora
Hawkins, Jack
Hawkins, Jeremiah
Hawkins, Louise “Touie” (1st wife)
children of
sickness and death of
Hayden, Mrs.
“Here, Mister Splitfoot, do as I do!”
Higham, Charles
Hinchliffe, Emilie
Hinchliffe, Captain Raymond
The History of Spiritualism
History of Woman Suffrage (Stanton and Anthony)
Hitler, Adolf
Hodder school, Stonyhurst, Doyle in
Hodgson, Richard
Hodson, Geoffrey
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Home, Daniel Dunglas
Hope, S.S.
Hope, William
Hornung, Oscar
Houdini, Bess (Beatrice) (wife of Harry Houdini)
Houdini, Harry
(1926) blow to abdomen leading to death
(1926) death of, on Halloween
(1926) funeral
anti-Spiritualism campaign of
de
ath prophesied
early belief in mediums, turning bitter
early life in circuses and sideshows
escape acts
exposes fraudulent mediums and soothsayers
investigates Margery the Medium case
magic tricks performed for Doyle
may have had psychic powers, though he denied it
mother of, his attempted contact with
mother of, his deep attachment to
“not a skeptic” of genuine mediums
at séance given by Doyle
secret message to be communicated after his death
showbill denouncing spiritualism
sometime friend of Doyle
tours
writings of
Houdini box. See fraud-proof cabinet
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Howard, Jim and Mary
Hunt, Leigh
Hutchinson, Jesse
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Hyde, Mr. and Mrs.
Hydesville, NY
hypnotism
Hyslop, James Hervey
Hyslop, Robert
immortality
search for proof of
See also life after death
Inchcape, Lord
Infidel Committee (re the Rochester rappings)
The International Psychic Gazette
Irwin, H. Carmichael
Jacolliot, Monsieur
James, Alice
James, Herman
James, William
Jarman, Archie
Jervis, Mrs. (friend of William Barrett)
Jervis, Rev. Asahel
Jesuits
Jesus
proposed by Doyle as leader in ethics
said by Doyle to be a medium
Jewell, Mr. and Mrs.
Keedick, Lee
Kellock, Harold
Kenyon, Mr.
Kipling, Rudyard
Kodak company
Lamond, John
The Land of Mist
Langley, J. P.
Langworthy, Dr.
Lape, Jane
Leadbeater, Bishop Charles Webster
Leckie, Jean. See Doyle, (Lady) Jean
Leckie, Malcolm
Leonard, Mrs.
levitating a table
Lewis, E. E.
Lewis, Mrs. Margaret Cameron
life after death
Doyle’s initial rejection of
Doyle’s lectures on
hope for
See also immortality
Light newspaper
Lily Dale community
Lindbergh, Charles
Lizzie, daughter of Leah Fox
Llewellyn, Colonel
Loder-Symonds, Lily
Loder-Symonds, Malcolm
Lodge, Lady
Lodge, Sir Oliver
book by, Raymond; or, Life and Death
Lodge, Raymond
London Spiritualist Alliance
loss of faith, and growth of spiritualism
Low Countries, Doyle’s tours in
Machen, Arthur
Mackay, Elsie
Mackenberg, Rose
A Magician Among the Spirits (Houdini)
magnetism. See mesmerism
Marcia, Madame
Marconi, Guglielmo
“Margery the Medium” (Mina Stinson Crandon)
Houdini calls a fake
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