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Engraving of Joseph Peace Hazard, 1890
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Letter to John C. Bundy, 1889-02-02 Letter describing the use of a water divining "wand" to find a stream.
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Are Spectres with Us? 1887-12 Clipping describing "psychical research" related to dreams, hallucinations, and spirits.
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Letter to James Angell, 1891-02-21 Letter describing how Hazard scored eleven points in a billiards game through spiritual intervention.
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Notes on Spirit of George Washington, 1890-12 Description of "Spiritual Manifestation" of George Washington at the Philadelphia World Exhibition in 1876.
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Letter to Hamilton, Hancock Co., 1891-03-03 Incomplete letter describing an Irishman's account of the Banshee.
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Letter to Sir, 1891-01 Description of spirit intervention which protected Hazard from a potentially dangerous encounter with a bull.
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Notes on Vernon spirit, no date Describes Hazard's experience hearing and feeling the ghost of his friend's deceased father, who advised Hazard on how best to help his friend.
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Notes, 1889-07-25 Description of visit in June, 1857, to English windmill haunted by a female ghost.
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Notes, 1890-02 Notes on Henry Olcutt and other mediums, who have traveled to India and "passed into a sphere beyond."
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Stray Thoughts on Spiritualism, 1880. Booklet with account of Spiritualist practices around the world. Includes instructions for conducting a seance, as well as listing of different kinds of mediums. Medium specialties include: clairvoyant and test medium, physical manifestations, developing medium, materializing medium, trance speaker.
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Rules to be Observed when Forming Spiritual Circles, 1870 Booklet with instructions for conducting seances at home.
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Seven Months of Spirits, 1890-11 Clipping describing experiences in Phelps household, including bells ringing, spoons bending, objects flying through the air. Quotes Phelps’s description of phenomena as “visitation from God.”
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Mysteries of Hypnotism, 1889 “Mysteries Of Hypnotism” 1889
Clipping describing Dr. Henry S. Drayton’s lecture on “The Evolution of a ‘Sixth Sense’” and experiments involving duplicating unseen drawings. Includes this description of the dual perception of Spiritualism:
“Modern Spiritualism is a thing of tinsel, deception, and unbelief; but, however this may be, when the London society set about collecting evidences of psychical phenomena it was overwhelmed with the great number of letters. In Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore they consider this matter seriously and study it as a science. They use children as subjects, for they believe that the results from such a source are more likely to be freed from extraneous influence.”
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Remarkable Spiritual Manifestations, 1887-07-15 David Harrower’s Letter to the Editor, describing spiritual painting session. Harrower cites Joseph Peace Hazard’s recommendation of Mrs. Debar, who is responsible for “wonderful spiritual manifestations” in New York City.
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How to Try Remarkable Experiments at Home, ca. 1870 Leaflet describing how to conduct a séance at home. Describes how to set up the room and prepare for the sitting, as well as the “symptoms” of spiritual communication. Originally published in "The Spiritualist" newspaper, ca. 1870.
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Notes, Peacedale, 1889-05-02 Description of “Spiritual Sittings” with Edward Clark, during which “the table began to move, and before the close of the evening, it would not only rock most vigorously; and on the following evening, this Table would frequently run all about the room.” Includes description of conversation regarding Clark’s medical care with the spirits, who communicated through the movements of the table.
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Notes on "Modern Spiritualism" Notes discussing the history of “Modern Spiritualism,” including “rapping Mediumship” of Kate Fox, the “Cock Lane Ghost”, the “Salem Witches”, and Church’s suppression of mediums and seers. Includes description of Hazard’s early visions of children dancing in the air and later visions of Barbados and Singapore.
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Letter to Abby Quincy, 1891-02 Incomplete letter regarding tour of Scotland, including sitting with former servant of Sir Walter Scott and encounter with the ghost of Robert Burns.
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Notes, Bologna, 1860-05-27 Notes on an encounter with the spirit of the recently deceased Theodore Parker , who attributed Hazard’s “difficulty as a medium” to his “unwillingness to be led by others.”
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Letter to Luther Colby, with Reply to Joseph Peace Hazard, 1890-04-13 Request from Joseph Peace Hazard for recommendations for materializing mediums in the Boston area. Includes response from Luther Colby with names and addresses of materializing mediums.
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Bill from Colby & Rich, 1890-02-24 Bill listing books Joseph Peace Hazard ordered from Colby & Rich, publishers of "The Banner of Light." Titles include:
Ghosts & Other Lect.
Ingersoll's Field Dis.
Ingersoll on Blasphemy
Orthodoxy
Prose Poems Selections
Gods Other Lectures
Vindications of T. Paine
What must we do
Crimes Against Criminals
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Letter to Joseph Peace Hazard, 1889-11-04 Letter in which Colby describes divided state of Spiritualism:
"We are being kicked, as usual, by Spiritualists, who want to boss us, but can't - as well as by enemies of the Cause. I am getting tired of this sort of life. Do you wonder?"
Includes mention of Hazard's brother Thomas:
"Thomas R. comes to see us occasionally. He is, he says, more wide awake than ever before."
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Letter to Joseph Peace Hazard, 1889-05-09 Letter defending medium Miss Debar, who is accused of "swindling" Judge Marsh. Includes note regarding "ascended brother Thomas":
"Whenever your ascended brother Thomas reports, I will send you whatever he communicates. He is somewhat annoyed just now because of the persecution and prosecution our mediums are receiving; and he is just as earnest in protecting them as he was when here in bodily form."
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Letter to Joseph Peace Hazard, 1889-05-01 Letter regarding persona article Hazard sent, which Colby does not wish to print. Includes message from "Spirit brother Thomas":
"While answering your note, I get this communication from your Spirit brother Thomas. He says, (which I copy below) what somewhat surprises me:
'Brother Joseph - If you have any money to leave, you had better give it to sustain the Banner of Light circle room meetings, instead of willing it to any other institutions.' "