Swan on a Black Sea; A Study in Automatic Writing- The Cummins-Willett-Scripts, Signe Toksvig, Weiser; NY; 1970; First American Edition, No DJ Hard Cover; 8vo – over 7¾” – 9¾” tall; 168pp.

VERY GOOD CONDITION – Revised edition (originally published 1965) – Binding tight, pages clean crisp unmarked, some foxing to edges, small bookstore sticker on opening page, No DJ; Black covers w/ blue print in a white box on spine. Not Ex-Library.

This book is about the “Cummins – Willett Scripts” – a fascinating study in automatic writing. The study was conducted between 1957-60 by the Society for Psychical Research in London.
About the Cummins – Willett Scripts:
Geraldine Dorothy Cummins (1890-1969) was an Irish spiritualist medium, novelist and playwright. She began her career as a creative writer, but increasingly concentrated on mediumship and “channelled” writings, mostly about the lives of Jesus and Saint Paul, though she also published on a range of other topics.
“ Swan on a Black Sea” is her last book and is an account of her conversations with the spirit of Mrs. Willett, the spiritualist name of Mrs Winifred Margaret Coombe Tennant (1874 –1956). She was a British suffragette, politician, philanthropist, patron of the arts and spiritualist. This book contains their correspondence, along with messages received from the spirit of “Mrs. Willett” describing the afterlife.