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William Lyon Mackenzie King letters to Hereward and Marie Carrington [textual record]

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Date :

1933-1934.

Référence :

R11256-0-4-E

Genre de documents :

Documents textuels

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Archives / Collections et fonds

No d'identification :

213821

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William Lyon Mackenzie King letters to Hereward and Marie Carrington
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Date(s) :

1933-1934.

Lieu de création :

Ontario

Étendue :

2 cm of textual records (6 p.).

Langue du document :

anglais

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Collection consists of five letters written by William Lyon Mackenzie King to Hereward and Marie Carrington of the American Psychical Institute in New York. The letters are personal correspondence written to spiritualist friends.

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Sweet, Marie Phelps, 1893-1967
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King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950

Carrington, Hereward, 1880-1958
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Sweet, Marie Phelps, 1893-1967 : Marie Phelps Sweet was born in New York State in 1893. She was an activist involved in a wide variety of causes. She supported Margaret Sanger and the right for women to obtain birth control in the 1920s. In the 1930s she fought against racism and in the 1940s she ran for office in Westchester County, New York on a democratic platform that included greater rights for minorities. Marie Phelps Sweet was a member of the NAACP, a founder of the organization Women Outlawing War and was an active member in Women's Strike for Peace. She also joined VISTA and taught painting to native children on an Indian reservation in Oregon. She co-authored Some Hints on Fasting Well with Hereward Carrington. A firm believer in spiritualism and psychic phenomenon, she was secretary of the American Psychical Institute, and was a pioneer member of the Life Extension Society, becoming the first Society coordinator in California. Marie Phelps Sweet was married three times. Her marriage to Hereward Carrington in 1932 was her second marriage. She married Russ La Croix Van Norden in California after Hereward's death. Marie Phelps Sweet died in 1967 at the age of 74. In accordance with her wishes she was cryogenically frozen. She was one of the first Americans to attempt this process of life extension, but in the early 1970s she was buried in a Los Angeles cemetery.

Carrington, Hereward, 1880-1958 : Hereward Carrington was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, England in 1880. In 1899 he emigrated to the United States. He obtained his Ph.D. from Oskaloosa, Iowa in 1918. Carrington was one of two delegates to the first International Psychical Congress, Cophenhagen, Denmark in 1921. He was also a member of the Scientific American Committee of Five (along with Harry Houdini) which investigated the phenomena of Spiritualism. Carrington married Marie Sweet Smith in 1932. He was the founder of the American Psychical Institute and the author of numerous books and articles on spiritualism and psychic phenomenon. Hereward Carrington died in 1958.

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Historique de la conservation :

Marie Phelps Sweet retained the letters until her death. They then passed into the custody of her husband, Russ Van Norden. Upon his death, the letters stayed with his new wife, and when she died, her daughter, Jean Oliver took possession of the letters. Jean Oliver donated the letters to Library and Archives Canada in 2005.

Groupes de documents reliés :

These letters written by Mackenzie King are the first in a series of correspondence with the Carringtons. Related correspondence written by Marie Carrington can be found in the William Lyon Mackenzie King fonds, MG 26 J9, volume 1. There is also a small amount of correspondence in MG 26 J3, volume 22 and King mentions the Carrington's several times in his diary (MG 26 J13, or see the online version). Books autographed by Hereward Carrington and presented to Mackenzie King are located in the Published Heritage Branch (formerly the National Library).

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2004-01754-6
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