Inventory of the Hare-Farley Collection In Theosophy And Phrenology, 1855 -1921
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Inventory of the Hare-Farley Collection In Theosophy And Phrenology, 1855 -1921
Accession number: GTU 91-8-01
Shelf location: 2/D/4
The Graduate Theological Union Archives
Berkeley, California
Contact Information:
- Graduate Theological Union Archives
- 2400 Ridge Road
- Berkeley, California, 94709
- Phone: (510) 649-2523/2501
- Email: archives@gtu.edu
- URL: http://www.gtu.edu/library/special-collections/archives
- Processed by:
- Lucinda Glenn Rand
- Date Completed:
- 9/20/94
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 Graduate Theological Union. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Hare-Farley Collection In Theosophy And Phrenology,
Date (inclusive): 1855 -1921
Accession number: GTU 91-8-01
Shelf location: 2/D/4
Creator:
Size: Number Of Containers: 2 boxes, 2 folios
Linear feet: 1/2
Type of material: Correspondence (some copies), lectures, broadsides, pamphlets, hand-drawings
Repository: The
Graduate Theological Union.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Graduate Theological Union. All requests for
permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the
Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Graduate Theological
Union as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Hare-Farley Collection In Theosophy And Phrenology , GTU
91-8-01, The Graduate Theological Union Archives, Berkeley, CA.
Access Points
Phrenology
Theosophy
M. Hilaire Hare or Michael H. Hare
George Bradford Farley
Biographical/Historical Description
M.H. Hare (Michael Hilaire, or Hillary, Hare) apparently came from Ireland in the
1830's. He was in Buffalo, New York, and came, prior to the 1850's to Ohio. He was a
teacher, lecturer, and examiner in phrenology. He had a wife and two children. One of the
children, a daughter, was named Idyl Hare. She married George Bradford Farley in 1890 in
Michigan. Farley was a Civil War veteran, and worked for the Michigan Central Railway,
and lectured in Theosophy.
Box Box 1, Folder ff 1-5
M. H. Hare papers on phrenology, c. 1856-71
broadsides, lectures, correspondence (some copies)
Folder ff 6
George B. Farley, lectures on Theosophy, n.d. (c. 1893?)
Folder ff 7
Theosophical Society, American Section, Oriental Department, papers: no. 1, 1891 - no. 26, 1895
Box Box 2, Folder ff 1
Book, "The Perfect Way" by Maitland and Kingsford, 1890, from Lovell's Occult Series
Folder ff 2
Pamphlets on Theosophy, c. 1890 -1903
Oversize Folio 1
M. H. Hare, phrenological charts, hand drawn, in a portfolio marked "M. H. Hare", 1856
Oversize Folio 2
1. 2 broadsides, "Mental Philosophy", a series of 12 lectures by M.H. Hare, c. 1856
2. 1 contract, handwritten, 1855, between M.H. Hare and 12 women and 12 men (signatures) to "deliver a course of instruction to an organized class" in Columbus