Special Collections Research Center
Kelvin Smith Library: Special Collections Research Center
(1897 - 1919)
Biography | Scope and Content | Boxlist
Quantity: 8.75 linear feet
Restrictions: The Special Collections Research Center is open to any interested researcher upon presentation of a valid CASE ID or other valid official identification card. The Center is open to other researchers by appointment only.
Acquisition: This collection was purchased from the estate of Fritz Sage Darrow in 1930 by the Case Library (a private Cleveland library affiliated with Western Reserve University). The collection was deposited in the Libraries of Western Reserve College and later placed in the Special Collections department of CWRU Libraries.
Biography: Fritz Sage Darrow (1882-1929)
Fritz Sage Darrow was born in Rochester, New York in 1882 to Charles E. and Isabel Sage Darrow. He graduated from Harvard University (A.B., 1903, A.M., 1904, PhD, 1906) and earned many scholastic honors there including Harvard College Scholar (1902), John Harvard Scholar (1903), and Charles Eliot Norton Fellow. He was a Member of the American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece (1903-1904A)
Darrow served as instructor of Classical Archeology in the Harvard Summer School (1906), Adjunct Professor of Greek at Dickenson College (1906-1907) and Professor of Greek at Drury College (1907-1910). He sought to write the definitive life of Francis Mecurius van Helmont (1614-1698), a 17th century alchemist, cabbalist and physician.
Also a prominent Theosophist, Darrow was the author of many works about that philosophy. He lived with his wife and children for a time at the International Theosophical Headquarters in Point Loma, California. After divorcing from his wife in 1919, Darrow returned to Rochester where he remarried and became director of the Rochester Business Institute. He died in 1929.
The collection is organized into two series:
Series 1: Personal Papers. 1897-1919. This series consists of many of Darrow’s writings on Theosophy including plays and journal articles. Also found here are newspaper clippings and correspondence regarding Darrow’s dismissal from Drury College and his divorce.
Series 2: Research Material. 1910-1919 and undated. This series consists of correspondence, notes, bibliographies and transcriptions related to Darrow’s research into the life of Francis Mercurius van Helmont. Also found here are some family correspondence related to his research, but which also contains personal information.
Early collection descriptions by James Holly Hanford and I.R. Watts are located in Box 12.
Abbreviations used in this list are as follows:
F.S.D. : Professor Fritz Sage Darrow
M.G.D. : May Goodall Darrow
F.M.v.H. : Francis Mercurius van Helmont (son)
J.B.v.H. : Jean Baptiste van Helmont (father)
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Series 1: Personal Papers. 1897-1919 |
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Series1: Subseries 1: Articles. 1900-1915 |
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1 |
"Plato, The Theosophist” |
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1 |
2 |
"Life and Teachings of Pythagoras" |
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1 |
3 |
"What is Reality or An Extension of the World and the Individual" First Thesis, Phil. 9, Done Dec. 3, 1901. |
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1 |
4 |
"Plato's conception of art" by F.S.D., autograph manuscript, 1903 |
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1 |
5 |
"The One and the Many" Second Report in Phil. 9. Oct 29th, 1901 |
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Series 1: Subseries 2: Plays. 1911-1915 and undated |
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1 |
6 |
The Birds [typescript]
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Series 1: Subseries 3:Miscellaneous Writings and Notes. 1900-1911 and undated |
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1 |
7 |
Quotations for "New Life" [mimeograph copy] |
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Series 1: Subseries 4: Theosophy Articles Written by Fritz Sage Darrow and May Goodall Darrow 1910-1915 and undated |
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1 |
8 |
"What is Theosophy?" |
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Series 1: Subseries 5: Personal Papers Correspondence. 1897-1917 |
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1 |
9 |
Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society materials 1898-1902 |
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1 |
10 |
Proposed wills for F.S.D. and M.G.D. 1906 |
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1 |
11 |
Masons and Knights of Pythias. Correspondence 1911 |
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1 |
12 |
Correspondence with booksellers and researchers 1917 |
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1 |
13 |
Miscellaneous correspondence 1897-1909 |
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1 |
14 |
Drury College correspondence 1910 |
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1 |
15 |
Drury College correspondence 1910 |
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1 |
16 |
Drury College correspondence 1911 |
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1 |
17 |
Drury College correspondence 1912-13 |
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Series 1: Subseries 6: Materials Concerning the Divorce of Fritz Sage Darrow and May Goodall Darrow. 1916-1919 |
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18 |
Divorce correspondence, January - June 1916 |
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1 |
19 |
Divorce correspondence, July - October 1916 |
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1 |
20 |
Divorce correspondence, October - November 1916 |
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1 |
21 |
Divorce correspondence, November 1916 |
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1 |
22 |
Divorce correspondence, December 1916 |
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2 |
1 |
Divorce correspondence, 1917 |
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2 |
2 |
Divorce correspondence, 1918 |
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2 |
3 |
Divorce correspondence, 1919 |
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2 |
4 |
Miscellaneous divorce papers |
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2 |
5 |
Miscellaneous divorce papers |
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2 |
6 |
Divorce correspondence concerning custody |
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2 |
7 |
Divorce papers concerning F.S.D.'s mother's sanity |
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2 |
8 |
Divorce papers concerning custody |
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2 |
9 |
Divorce papers concerning M.G.D. |
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2 |
10 |
Divorce papers concerning M.G.D. |
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2 |
11-22 |
Divorce papers |
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3 |
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Five volumes newspaper clippings: 1) Drury College 2) Drury College 3) Drury College 4) Divorce 5) Divorce |
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Series 2: Research Material. 1910-1916 and undated |
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Series 2: Subseries 1 : Libraries Collections. 1911-1916 |
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A-B |
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1 |
2 |
Bodleian Library I |
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1 |
3 |
Bodleian Library 2 |
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1 |
4 |
British Museum |
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1 |
5 |
British Museum. J. H. & E.M. Jeayes |
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1 |
6 |
British Museum. J. H. & E.M. Jeayes |
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2 |
1 |
C-Cam |
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2 |
2 |
Cam- |
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2 |
3 |
D-G |
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2 |
4 |
H |
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2 |
5 |
Harvard I |
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2 |
6 |
Harvard 2 |
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2 |
7 |
Harvard 3 |
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2 |
8 |
Hav-K |
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3 |
1 |
L-N |
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3 |
2 |
P |
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3 |
3 |
S-Swarthmore |
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3 |
4 |
San Diego |
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3 |
5 |
T-Y |
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Series 2: Subseries 2: Notes, Extracts and References circa 1914-1915 and undated |
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1 |
A-Berl |
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4 |
2 |
Berw- |
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4 |
3 |
C-D |
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4 |
4 |
E-F |
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4 |
5 |
G- |
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4 |
6 |
H-I |
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5 |
1 |
J-L |
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5 |
2 |
M-O |
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5 |
3 |
P-S |
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5 |
4 |
T-W |
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5 |
5 |
Miscellaneous letters, bibliographies, queries. |
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Series 2 Subseries 3 : Miscellaneous Letters, Bibliographies, Queries. 1912-1915 and undated |
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B-G |
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6 |
2 |
H |
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6 |
3 |
L-Q |
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6 |
4 |
R-V |
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6 |
5 |
Quaker Material I |
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6 |
6 |
Quaker Material 2 |
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Series 2: Subseries 4 : Family Correspondence. 1913-1916 and undated |
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1 |
Correspondence between Darrow and his father |
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7 |
2 |
Correspondence between Darrow and his mother |
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7 |
3 |
Correspondence between Darrow and his sister |
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Series 2: Subseries 5 : Extracts and Notes about Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. no date |
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4 |
A-D |
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7 |
5 |
E-R |
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Series 2: Subseries 6 : Transcriptions. 1914-1915 and undated |
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Material written by van Helmont or at his request. Adumbrato Kabbalae Christianae. 1684 |
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8 |
2 |
Material written by van Helmont or at his request. Een Zeer Korte Afbeelding van Het Ware |
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8 |
3 |
Material written by van Helmont or at his request. Natur Alphabets. 1668 |
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8 |
4 |
Material written by van Helmont or at his request. De Revolutione Animarum Humanarum. 1684 |
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8 |
5 |
Material written by van Helmont or at his request.Seder Olam or the Order of All the Ages of the |
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8 |
6 |
Material written by van Helmont or at his request. Some Observations of F.M.v.H. (1682) |
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8 |
7 |
Material written by van Helmont or at his request. The Spirit of Diseases or the Diseases of the Spirit. 1694 |
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8 |
8 |
Material written by van Helmont or at his request. Two Hundred Queries Concerning the Doctrine |
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9 |
Material written by van Helmont or at his request. Medicamenta Secretiora Dni Francisci Mecur Helmontij |
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9 |
1 |
Books and letters of Dr. Henry More and Ann, Lady Conway. Letters of Anne, Lady Conway to |
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9 |
2 |
Books and letters of Dr. Henry More and Ann, Lady Conway. Letters that passed between |
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9 |
3 |
Books and letters of Dr. Henry More and Anne, Lady Conway. Some account of |
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9 |
4 |
Books and letters of Dr. Henry More and Anne, Lady Conway. Some account of |
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9 |
5 |
Books and letters of Dr. Henry More and Anne, Lady Conway. The Principles of the |
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9 |
6 |
Books and letters of Dr. Henry More and Anne, Lady Conway. Anne, |
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9 |
7 |
Books and letters of Dr. Henry More and Anne, Lady Conway. Articles about Dr. Henry More, |
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9 |
8 |
Books and letters of Dr. Henry More and Anne, Lady Conway. The Poems of Dr. Henry More |
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9 |
9 |
Books and letters of Dr. Henry More and Anne, Lady Conway. A Countess of Conway, by Thomas J. |
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9 |
10 |
A Dissertation Concerning the Pre-existency of Souls. 1684 |
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9 |
11 |
Various manuscripts in the British Museum |
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10 |
1 |
Thesaurus Novus, by Emanuel Konig. 1704 |
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10 |
2 |
Free and Impartial Censure of the Platonick Philosophie. Two letters written by Nath. Bisbie to |
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10 |
2 |
An Account of the Nature and Extent of the Divine Dominion…by Sam Parker 1667 |
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10 |
3 |
A Homage to Menasseh ben Israel, by Rev. Dr. A. Adler. Transactions of the Jewish Historical |
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10 |
4 |
Deus Justificatus or Divine Goodness. 1668 |
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10 |
5 |
Franciscus Merkurius van Helmont, ein Pantheist, by J.Chr. Adelung. 1787 |
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10 |
6 |
Aphorismi Chemici, 1688 |
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10 |
7 |
La Lumiere Sortant par soi-mesme des Tenebres, by Marco Antonio Grassellame, pseudon. |
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10 |
8 |
1)Aphorisme Concerning the Doctrine of the Revolution of Humane Souls. 2)Narrow Path of Divine Truth. |
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10 |
9 |
Lists of authors and books in which reference may have been made to van Helmont |
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10 |
10 |
Notes from the Dictionary of National Biography giving references to van Helmont |
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10 |
11 |
Unidentified Helmontiana |
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10 |
12 |
Desiderata |
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10 |
13 |
Helmontiana inaccesible to Dr. Darrow |
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10 |
14 |
Unlocated Helmontiana |
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10 |
15 |
New Helmontiana (1914-1915) |
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Series 2: Subseries 7 : Van Helmont and the Deaf and Mute. 1914-1915 |
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11 |
1 |
Van Helmont material related to the deaf and mute |
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Series 2: Subseries 8: Van Helmont and Theories of Reincarnation. 1910-1913 |
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11 |
2 |
Van Helmont material related to reincarnation. Extracts, transcriptions and notes. I |
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11 |
3 |
Van Helmont material related to reincarnation. Extracts, transcriptions and notes. II |
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Series 2: Subseries 9 : Printed Articles. 1911-1916 |
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11 |
4 |
The Theosophical Path. v.1-3, 1911-1912. Articles by F.S. Darrow |
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11 |
5 |
The Theosophical Path. v.4-5, 1913-1914. Articles by F.S. Darrow |
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11 |
6 |
The Theosophical Path. v.8, 1915. Articles by F.S. Darrow |
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11 |
7 |
The Theosophical Path. v.10, 1916; El Sendero Teosofico. v 1-3, 1911-1912; International |
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Series 2: Subseries 10: Bibliography of Francis Mercurius van Helmont drafts. |
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Bibliography of Francis Mercurius van Helmont (Earlier Draft) by F. S. Darrow. Typescript with introductory material by James Holly Hanford. ca. 1928. [catalog number *610.81 H482ud pt.1-4] |
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