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Arthur Koestler (1905-1983)
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He set up a trust fund to establish, after his death, a Chair of Parapsychology at a British University. Edinburgh won this honour, and with it Koestler's own archive of most of his surviving MSS and correspondence, and annotated books from his library. "The Koestler Archive in Edinburgh University Library: a checklist", by Susan Smyth, was published by the Library in 1987. The original bequest of MSS and of books has been augmented by gifts from the London Library, bequests from Koestler's literary executor Harold Harris, and purchases from the sculptor Daphne Hardy Henrion, and others. Koestler's interest in extra-sensory perception has been further enhanced by the gift to the Library in 1993 by the University of Oxford Museum of 300 volumes on spiritualism and the paranormal from the library of Alfred Russell Wallace. | |
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