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This book tells the incredible story of the cross-correspondence automatic writings, described by one leading scholar of the field, Alan Gauld, 'as undoubtedly the most extensive, the most complex and the most puzzling of all ostensible attempts by deceased persons to manifest purpose, and in so doing to fulfil their overriding purpose of proving their survival'. It is an intensely personal and passionate story on so many levels: May Lyttelton trying to convince her lover Arthur Balfour of her continued existence; Myers with indomitable persistence trying to produce evidence to prove survival generally; Gurney and Francis Balfour striving from beyond the grave to influence the birth of children who would work for world peace; Gerald Balfour and his lover Winifred Coombe-Tennant believing that their child, Henry, would be the Messianic leader of this group of children.

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Arthur Balfour's Ghosts is the most important book on a topic in psychical research published during 2017 and the most significant book on the evidential aspects of mediumistic communications to have appeared for several years... -- Alan Murdie * Fortean Times * [Arther Balfour's Ghosts] is excellently written and is essential reading for those interested in the early days of psychical research... This book is not only an invaluable record of a series of thoroughly researched and documented events. It also has considerable relevance to psi research today... This is indeed a book for the serious psi researcher to treasure. -- Guy Lyon Playfair * Journal for the Society of Psychical Research *

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Trevor Hamilton retired from his post in higher education at the end of 2006 to write full time. He has degrees from Oxford, London and Sussex Universities. He is the author of a well-received biography of F.W.H. Myers, one of the founding figures of the Society for Psychical Research.

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