Philip Kaplan collection of Elsie McCormack papers, 1918-1952.

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Philip Kaplan collection of Elsie McCormack papers, 1918-1952.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/298213705

This collection consists largely of Elsie McCormack's cosmic writing, but also includes other writing, correspondence, and published volumes.

0.50 cubic feet.

Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7275717

Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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Kaplan, Philip, 1903-1990

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Philip Kaplan was born in Grodno, Belarus. He worked in Cleveland and New York, chiefly as an advertisement art director, self-taught painter, book and art collector. From the description of Philip Kaplan collection addition, 1922-1976. (Southern Illinois University). WorldCat record id: 314373819 ...

McCormack, Elsie, 1876-

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Elsie (Mrs. Frank L.) McCormack (1876-n.d.), a spiritualist, housewife, landlord, and stock investor, believed that she was a "transmitter" of the cosmos. Every morning from 6 to 8 am, for a large segment of her life, she sat at a desk with paper and pencil and wrote the words she received from the cosmos. In spiritual terminology, this is known as automatic writing or automatism. Writing under the pseudonym Anna Goodwill, she published two volumes containing the day-to-day messages she received...