A Catalogue of Books, Documents

and other items relating to Borley Rectory

in the Library of Trevor H. Hall

Leeds 1957

1. BAINES, C.C. An Interim report upon the Paranormal Phenomena at Borley Rectory.
84 + [2] pp. Typescript. Three-quarter calf gilt.
The contribution by Mrs. Baines to the unpublished Borley Symposium. An historical investigation into the possible existence of "Marie Laire." A criticism by THH is laid in, together with a letter from Mrs. Baines.

2. BAINES, C.C. Files of Corespondence 1947 - 1955.
A collection of 67 letters about the historical aspects of Borley from Mrs. Baines to Harry Price, Sidney H. Glanville, Mrs. K.M. Goldney, and THH.

3. BRADDOCK, Joseph. Haunted Houses.
216 pp. Illustrated.
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1956
The author discusses Borley on pp. 82, 84-5 and 204-5.

4. BURROUGHS, J. The Haunted Rectory.
24 pp. Typescript. Cloth gilt.
Script of proposed broadcast on Borley, 10 and 12 September, 1956. Contributions by E.J. Dingwall, Charles Sutton, Eric Cuddon, Mrs. A.C. Henning, T.H. Hall and others.

5. DAY, J. Wentworth. Ghost and Witches.
X11 + 172 pp. Illustrated.
London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1954
Chapter IV contains an account of the author's experiences at Borley.

6. DINGWALL, E.J. and HALL, T.H. Four Lectures ont he Borley Investigation.
120 pp. Typescript. Cloth gilt.
Lectures given to Swedish S.P.R. (E.J.D.), Cambridge University S.P.R. (T.H.H.), U.D.S. (T.H.H.), and London S.P.R. (T.H.H.)

7. DINGWALL, E.J., GOLDNEY, K.M., and HALL, T.H. The Haunting of Borley Rectory. A Critical Survey of the Evidence.
Vol. 51. 1956. (Part 186) Proceedings of the Society for Pyschical Research.
XIV + 181 + [1] pp. With three Figures in the text and Five photographic plates. Blue paper wrappers.
London: The Society for Psychical research. 1956

8. Another copy in large paper uncut, in full calf gilt with two extra photographs laid in.

9. DINGWALL, E.J., GOLDNEY, K.M., and HALL, T.H. The Haunting of Borley Rectory.
Pagination etc. as in S.P.R. edition. Commercial edition, cloth-bound, with pictorial dust-wrapper.
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. 1956

10. Another copy of the first edition in full calf gilt with extra photograph laid in.

11. DINGWALL, E.J., GOLDNEY, K.M., and HALL, T.H. The Haunting of Borley Rectory. A Critical Survey of the Evidence.
Original typescript of report. 282 pp. Illustrated. Bound in full calf gilt, with letters to T.H.H. from the President and Secretary of the Society for Psychical Research, from his co-authors and others laid in.

12. Page-proofs of the first edition bound in dust-wrappers.

13. Galley proofs of the first edition.

14. DINGWALL, E.J., GOLDNEY, K.M., and HALL, T.H. The Haunting of Borley Rectory. A Critical Survey of the Evidence.
The second edition of the commercial imprint.
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. 1956.

15. FLEW, ANTONY. A New Approach to Psychical Research.
viii + 161 pp.
London: Watts & Co. 1953
A partial exposure of Borley and an anticipation of the S.P.R. report appears on pp. 26-8.

16. FOYSTER, Rev. L.A. Fidteen Months in a Haunted House.
Typescript. Illustrated. 184 pp. Full calf gilt with label on spine.
This is Mr. Foyster's story, using pseudonyms for all name and place names, of his experiences at Borley Rectory. It was written with a view to sale but was never published. It was copied by the compiler from the typescript contained in the Harry Price Library.

17. GLANVILLE, SIDNEY H. "Borley Rectory".
A framed oil-painting 16" x 12" of the Rectory at night, reproduced by permission of Mr. Glanville on the dust-wrapper of The Haunting of Borley Rectory. Mr. Glanville was an accomplished artist, and presented this picture to T.H.H. in September, 1953.

18. GLANVILLE, S.H. Borley Rectory.
Typescript. Illustrated. 83 pp. Folio. Three-quarter calf gilt.
This is the original account prepared by Mr. S.H. Glanville for the symposium on Borley Rectory in collaboration with Mrs. C.C. Baines and Mr. A.P. Underwood. Mr. Glanville's contribution was a summary of the contents of Price's two books on Borley with amplified descriptions of Mr. Glanville's own experiences. The symposium was never published and this unpublished typescript is unique apart from the copy now in the possession of Mrs. M. Glanville.

19. GLANVILLE, S.H. Borley Rectory.
Typescript. Illustrated. 120 pp. Quarto. Full calf gilt with label on spine.
This is a revised account by Mr. Glanville of his experiences at Borley Rectory following considerable correspondence and discussion with T.H.H. Many sections are identical with the entry bearing a similar title.

20. GLANVILLE, S.H. The Haunting of Borley Rectory. A Private and Confidential Report.
Typescript. Illustrated. 160 pp. Three-quarter calf gilt fitten with Bramah lock.
The famous "Locked Book" prepared by Mr. Glanville and upon which Price based his The Most Haunted House in England. A full description of the book and its contents is contained in chapter eight of The End of Borley Rectory. Autographed and inscribed to T.H.H. A letter from Mr. S.H. Glanville to T.H.H. describing the circumstances in which the book was loaned to the late Harry Price and never returned is laid in.

21. GLANVILLE, S.H. (compiled by)
File of original letters from major characters in the Borley story including Harry Price, Rev. G.E. Smith, Rev. L.A. Fosyter, Miss Ethel Bull, Mr. M. Kerr-Pearse, etc. together with many original reports and unpublished photographs of the Rectory. It ws from this file that the Locked Book was prepared and with the exception of the seance data, is identical with it. It contains the original tracings of the wall writings.

22. GLANVILLE, S.H. (compiled by) The Planchette Scripts.
Typescript. Illustrated. 46 pp. Full calf gilt with label on spine.
The original typescripts of the Planchette Seances conducted by the Glanville family which were not included in the Locked Book and of which no copies are available in the Harry Price Library or elsewhere. Unique.

23. GLANVILLE, S.H., GLANVILLE, R.H., and CARTER, HELEN. Original Planchette Script.
A complete roll of wall lining paper covered on both sides with the planchette seances of the Glanville family. Among the scripts is the famous message from "Sunex Amures" threatening to burn down the Rectory.

24. HADFIELD, JOHN. (compiled by) The Christmas Companion.
xvi + 560 + [8] pp. Illustrated.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. 1939.
"Christmas Ghosts" by Harry Price (pp. 231-247) is almost wholly an account of Borley Rectory.

25. HALL, T.H. (compiled by). The Bull Incumbancies.
Typescript. Illustrated. 87 pp. Full calf gilt with label on spine.
An indexed collection of copies of all relevant papers relating to this period in the Harry Price Library, plus original reports and correspondence assembled by the compiler. Includes four unpublished photographs of the Rectory in Victorian times, including the furnished Dining Room and Drawing Room, and seven certificates from Somerset House relating to the life and death of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bull. Orignal letters from Miss Ethel Bull and Mr. Alfred Bull to T.H.H. are laid in.

26. HALL, T.H. (compiled by). The Smith incumbancy.
Typescript. Illustrated. 281 pp. Full calf gilt with label on spine.
An indexed collection of copies of all relevant papers relating to this period in the Harry Price Library, plus original reports and correspondence assembled by the compiler. Several original letters from Mrs. G.E. Smith to T.H.H. are laid in.

27. HALL, T.H. (compiled by). The Smith incumbancy.
Typescript. Illustrated. 271 pp. Full calf gilt with label on spine.
An indexed collection of copies of all relevant papers relating to this period in the Harry Price Library, plus original reports and correspondence assembled by the compiler. Several original letters from Canon H. Lawton, Mrs. E.M. Wildgoose and other witnesses are laid in.

28. HALL, T.H. (compiled by). The Salter-Braithwaite Correspondence.
Typescript. Illustrated. 26 pp. Full calf gilt with label on spine.
A collection of copies or correspondence and reports relating to this period, none of which are contained in the Harry Price Library.

29. HALL, T.H. (compiled by). The Harry Price Tenancy.
Typescript. Illustrated. 153 pp. Full calf gilt with label on spine.
An indexed collection of copies of all relevant papers relating to this period in the Harry Price Library, plus original reports and correspondence assembled by the compiler. Original letters from Mr. S.H. Glanville, Mr. M. Kerr-Pearse and other witnesses are laid in.

30. HALL, T.H. (compiled by). Later Borley.
Typescript. Illustrated. 254 pp. Full calf gilt with label on spine.
An indexed collection of copies of all relevant papers relating to this period in the Harry Price Library, plus original reports and correspondence assembled by the compiler. Original letters from Canon W.J. Phythian-Adams and other witnesses are laid in.

31. HALL, T.H. (compiled by). Borley in Retrospect.
Typescript. Illustrated. 150 pp. Full calf gilt with label on spine.
A collection of reports and correspondence relating to the later period of the investigation undertaken by the compiler and his collaborators, none of which are contained in the Harry Price Library.

32. HALL, T.H. (compiled by). Borley Notebook No. 18.
Typescript. Illustrated. 126 pp. Three-quarter calf gilt.
Original letters from Mrs. Guy Taylor and Mrs. Douglas Craggs laid in.

33. HALL, T.H. (compiled by). An Investigation into the where-abouts of the former Marianne Foyster.
Typescript. Illustrated. 63 pp. Full calf gilt with label on spine.
A collection of reports and correspondence relating to investigation carried out in East Anglia during 1953 into the life and activities of Mrs. Foyster. Amongst the official documents are included the ceritficate of Mrs. Foyster's marriage to Vincent O'Neil, Mr. Foyster's death certificate and a copy of Mr. Foyster's will. Maps of Suffolk are included, together with photographs of various houses occupied by Mrs. Foyster, Mr. Fosyer's grave, etc.

34. HALL, T.H. (compiled by). A Further Investigation of the life of the former Marianne Foyster.
Typescript. Illustrated. 142 pp. Full calf gilt with label on spine.
The second volume of the 'Marianne' enquiry. Amongst the documents are her birth-certificate, the certificates of her marriage to Rev. L.A. Foyster and the bigamous marriage to H.F. Fisher, the birth and death certificates of J.E. Emery, and the birth certificate of H.F. Fisher. Among the many photographs is one of Marianne's birth-place. The period covered is 1954-1955.

35. HALL, T.H. Marianne Foyster. Volume III.
Typescript. Illustrated. 93 pp. Three-quarter calf gilt.
The third volume of the 'Marianne' enquiry. Amongst the documents are the certificates of baptism of John F. H. Fisher and Astrid Marianne Zaida Fisher. Amongst the photographs is the first one of Marianne discovered during the enquiry. The period covered is 1955-6.

35. HALL, T.H. Marianne Foyster. Volume IV.
Typescript. Illustrated. 128 pp. Three-quarter calf gilt.
The fourth volume of the 'Marianne' enquiry. It contains six photographs of Mrs. Foyster and certificates of her marriage to H.G. Greenwood and the birth certificate of their child.

37. HALL, T.H. The Glanville Mystery. A Private and Confidential report.
Typescript. Illustrated. 70 pp. Three-quarter calf gilt.
Letters from S.H. Glanville, Mrs. H. Carter and Mrs. K.M. Goldney laid in. Contains photographs of S.H. Glanville, R.H. Glanville, Mrs. M. Glanville, Mrs. H. Carter, M. Kerr-Pearse, A.J. Cuthbert, etc.

38. HALL, T.H. Death at Borley Rectory.
Typescript. 216 pp. Calf-gilt.
An unpublished detective-story written around the investigation of the Borley case. The last few chapters, completed in 1955, were written in collaboration with Dr. H. Park Shackelton, O.B.E.

39. HARVEY, Frank. The Poltergeist. 68 pp.
London: H.F.W. Deane & Sons, Ltd., 1947.
A play in three acts inspired by the Borley Rectory case.

40. HASTINGS, R.J. Not the End of Borley Rectory.
Typescript. 95 pp. Cloth gilt.
One of three copies of an unpublished reply to the Borley Report. The title page gives a date of 1956, but the material was not submitted to the S.P.R. until 1957. A letter from the author to T.H.H. is laid in.

41. HENNING, Rev. A.C. Haunted Borley.
56 pp. Illustrated. Soft boards.
Liston, Sudbury; Published by the Author. [1949.]
A letter from Mr. Henning inviting T.H.H. and family to tea is laid in, together with a photograph of Mr. & Mrs. Henning and their two sons.

42. INKY WAY ANNUAL. Book II.
192 pp. Illustrated.
London: World's Press News. [1948.]
"Meditations" by Charles Sutton (p. 125) contains the now famous account of how the writer caught Price producing fake phenomena at Borley Rectory in 1929.

43. JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH.
JUNE 1956. Vol. 38. No. 688.
Contains (pp. 249-264), "The Borley Report: Some Criticisms" (Michael Coleman); with comments (.E.J. Dingwall, K.M. Goldney and T.H. Hall).
2 copies.

44. JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH.
Five ARTICLES extracted from the Journal and bound in soft books comprising: -
1. Review of "The Most Haunted House in England" by W.H. Salter. (Sept. - Oct. 1940).
2. "Some Recent Investigations into the Borley Rectory Case" by A.J.B. Robertson (Jan. - Feb. 1945).
3. Review of "The End of Borley Rectory" by W.H. Salter. (Dec 1946).
4. "Borley Rectory" by B. Nisbet. (Feb. 1948).
5. "The Alleged Thermal Phneomena at Borley" by Allen J. Sharp. 45. MITCHELL, Gladys. When Last I Died.
208 pp.
London: Michael Joseph Ltd. 1941
A detective story offering a fictional solution of the Borley Rectory case.

46. MYSTERY. An nthology of the mysterious in Fact and Fiction.
[6] = 439 pp. Illustrated.
London: Hulton Press. 1952
"Poscript to Harry Price by Robert Fordyce Aickman (pp. 270-8) is mainly devoted to Borley Rectory.

47. PRESS-CUTTINGS. [1]
A cloth-bound volume of 125 press cuttings on Borley Rectory from June 1929 to December 1946.

48. PRESS-CUTTINGS. [2]
A cloth-bound volume of 282 press cuttings on Borley Rectory from August 1935 to December 1955.

49. PRESS-CUTTINGS. [3]
A cloth-bound volume of 198 press cuttings on Borley Rectory from January 1956 to March 1957, numbered and indexed.

50. PRESS-CUTTINGS. [4]
A cloth-bound volume of 15 important reviews of The Haunting of Borley Rectory, January - March, 1956.

51. PRICE, Harry. Christmas Ghosts.
60 pp.
London: St. hugh's Press Ltd. [1949]
A reprint of Price's contrinution to The Christmas Companion (London, 1939) q.v.

52. PRICE, Harry. Confessions of a GhostHunter.
396 pp. Illustrated.
London: Putnam & Co. Ltd. 1936.
Chapter two is devoted to Borley Rectory

53. PRICE, Harry. Fifty Years of Psychical Research.
xii + 384 pp. Illustrated.
London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1939.
Contains many references to Borley Rectory.

54. PRICE, Harry. Poltergeist Over England.
xii + 423 pp. Illustrated.
London: Country Life Ltd. 1945
Chapter 25 is devoted to Borley Rectory.

55. PRICE, Harry. Search for Truth.
320 pp. Ilustrated.
London: Collins & Co. 1942
Contains many references to Borley Rectory.

56. PRICE, Harry. The Alleged haunting of B----- Rectory. Private and Confidential. Instructions for Observers.
8 pp. in soft blue boards.
London: University of London Council for Psychical Investigation. 1937
The exceedingly rare 'Blue Book'. This copy, the only one ever seen by T.H.H. belonged to S.H. Glanville and is signed by him.

57. PRICE, Harry. The End of Borley Rectory.
358 pp. Illustrated.
London: Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1946.
A Mint copy of the first edition in dust-wrapper.

58. PRICE, Harry. The End of Borley Rectory.
358 pp. Illustrated. Fourth printing.
London: Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1950
In this copy the omitted sections and names have been added to the printed records of the table-tilting and planchette seances by T.H.H.

59. PRICE, Harry. The Most Haunted House in England.
x + 256 pp. Illustrated.
London: Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd. 1940
A mint copy of the first edition, in dust wrapper. Signed by Price "To Mrs. Helen Carter (nee Glanville) friend of 'Sunex Amures' (who burnt the Rectory?), with kindest regards Harry Price. Oct. 12, 1940". A letter from Mrs. Carter presenting the book to T.H.H. is laid in.

60. PRICE, Harry. The Most Haunted House in England.
x + 256 pp. Illustrated.
London: Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd. 1941
Sidney Glanville's copy of the second edition, with three extra photographs laid in.

61. SINCLAIR, Upton. Most Haunted House.
Typescript. 137 pp. Three-quarter calf gilt.
The unpublished script of a film story of the Borley Rectory haunting.

62. STEVENS, W.O. Unbidden Guests.
xviii + 322 pp.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. 1946.
Chapter 1 (3) "The Nun at the Rectory" and
Chapter 2 (5) "Borley Rectory Again" are devoted to Borley Rectory.

63. TABORI, Paul. Harry Price; The Biography of a Ghost Hunter.
viii + 316 pp. Illustrated.
London: Anthenaeum Press. 1950
Chapter 12 is "The Borley Story", and in Chapter 14 is an appreciation by S.H. Glanville. This copy has photographs of Price's house and his grave at Pulborough, Sussex, laid in together with three obituary notices.

64. TURNER, James. My Life With Borley Rectory.
272 pp.
London: The Bodley Head. 1950
An imaginative novel written around the author's four-year occupation of the Borley Rectory cottage. A fine copy, with dust-wrapper intact.

65. TURNER, James. Rivers of East Anglia.
xiv + 242 pp. Illustrated.
London: Casse;; & Co. Ltd. 1954
On pp. 127-8 the author briefly desribes his experiences as owner of the remnants of Borley Rectory.

66. UNDERWOOD, A.P. (compiled by). The Borley Haunting 1947/52.
Typescript. Illustrated. 183 pp. Full calf gilt with label on spine.
Mr. Underwood's contribution to the symposium in which he was to have collaborated with Mrs. C.C. Baines and Mr. S.H. Glanville. It consists of extracts from correspondecne on Borley Rectory addressed to the late Mr. Harry Price or to Mr. Underwood, together with papers prepared by Canon W.J. Phythian-Adams, Mr. L. Ackerman and Mr. H. Scholay. Two copies were prepared by T.H.H. from the MS. in possession of Mr. Underwood and one of the two bound copies was sent to him. Laid in are original letters from Mr. Underwood stating that the papers referred to in the penultimate sentence were found by him in Mr. Price's files.

67. WEST, D.J. Psychical Research Today.
144 pp. Illustrated.
London: gerald Duckworth & Co. 1954.
One of the early exposures of Borley occurs at p. 123.

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