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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: John Edgar Coover papers
creator:
Coover, John Edgar
Identifier/Call Number: SC0371
Physical Description:
0.75 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1907-1938
Abstract: Papers include Coover's correspondence with David Starr Jordan, Ray Lyman Wilbur, and the Board of Trustees, 1913-1936, concerning
his psychic research and his annual reports to the University president, with several letters pertaining to the Australian
medium Charles Bailey; typescript "Report on Experimentation upon the Transfer of Improved Conditions of Attention," 1910-11;
typescript of his doctoral thesis, "Formal Discipline from the Standpoint of Experimental Psychology," 1912; reprints of Coover's
articles on psychic research and his "Notescript," a form of shorthand, 1913-ca. 1936; and miscellaneous clippings, 1912-1938.
Also included is a diary kept by his wife Margaret E. Coover, 1907-1915, concerning social affairs, club activities, domestic
life, and Coover's positions.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
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John Edgar Coover Papers (SC0371). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Professor of Psychology at Stanford and Thomas Welton Stanford Fellow in Psychic Research, 1910-1937.
Papers include Coover's correspondence with David Starr Jordan, Ray Lyman Wilbur, and the Board of Trustees, 1913-1936, concerning
his psychic research and his annual reports to the University president, with several letters pertaining to the Australian
medium Charles Bailey; typescript "Report on Experimentation upon the Transfer of Improved Conditions of Attention," 1910-11;
typescript of his doctoral thesis, "Formal Discipline from the Standpoint of Experimental Psychology," 1912; reprints of Coover's
articles on psychic research and his "Notescript," a form of shorthand, 1913-ca. 1936; and miscellaneous clippings, 1912-1938.
Also included is a diary kept by his wife Margaret E. Coover, 1907-1915, concerning social affairs, club activities, domestic
life, and Coover's positions.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Women -- California.
Shorthand.
Mediums.
Diaries.
Psychology, Experimental.
Psychical research.
Bailey, Charles.
Jordan, David Starr
Stanford University. Board of Trustees
Wilbur, Ray L. (Ray Lyman)
Stanford University. Department of Psychology. Faculty
Coover, Margaret E.
Coover, John Edgar
Coover, John Edgar