Mrs. Cecil Baines notes for projected third Borley book

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Chapter One - missing
Chapter Two - The Henry Bulls
Chapter Three - The Henry Bulls
Chapter Four - The Henry Bulls
Chapter Five - The Harry Bulls
Chapter Six - The Smiths
Chapter Seven - The Tatums
Chapter Eight - The Foysters
Chapter Nine - The Hennings
Chapter Ten - Harry Price's Tenancy

I knew Mrs. Cecil Ryan Baines and her husband when they lived at Boar's Hill, Oxford and Yew Tree House, Bladbean, Canterbury and at their flat in London where I dined with them several times. She was the first choice as Harry Price's literary executor but didn't feel she could accept it and passed to Dr Paul Tabori. She conducted a lot of research into the theory involving a French nun or novice named Mary Lairre and Price stated in a broadcast [for the BBC] that he had rececived confirmation "from an investigator of mine" that Mary Lairre did live in the 17th century and that she did come to England. After [Mrs. Baines] death her papers went to Alan Gauld. She and I were among the first people to examine Prices' papers after his death. I have all my extensive correspondence with her and also the correspondence she had with Canon Phythian-Adams, who passed to me all his correspondence pertaining to Borley. She was a member of the old Ghost Club and I remember showing her round Borley on one occasion. A singular and interesting person. - Peter Underwood (22 November 2001 letter to Vincent O'Neil)

Mrs. Baines read Price's books on Borley and contacted him. She came to the Harry Price Library and worked very hard researching the subject. - Alan Wesencraft (31 December conversation with Vincent O'Neil)

Only reference on the Internet is of a Mr. Cecil Baines who translated The Ego and the Mechanism of Defence (1936), by Anna Freud from German to English. Unknown if this is her husband.