ORU_Ax259.xml Guide to the Howard B. MacDonald Papers 1924-1964 MacDonald (Howard B.) Papers Finding aid prepared by University of Oregon Libraries, Archivists' Toolkit Project Team. Revised by Danica Alexander in December 2018. University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives 2010
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-12-22. English Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives
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Howard B. MacDonald papers MacDonald, Howard Brenton, 1898-1965 Ax 259 3 linear feet 2 record storage boxes. 1924-1964 Howard B. MacDonald was born in New York City and educated at Yale University and Columbia University. The papers consist of lecture notes, lectures by colleagues, correspondence course, extensive notes on occult manifestations, eastern religions, and occult personalities. English . 1 2

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 Correspondence

Howard B. MacDonald was born in New York City and educated at Yale University and Columbia University. He was a world traveler and ship's lecturer for the James Boring Travel Service. He became interested in the occult, did research in a form of extrasensory perception known as Radiesthesia, or the science of vibrations, and published pamphlets on the subject.

The Howard B. MacDonald papers consist of lecture notes and lectures by Manley Palmer Hall, Bhagat Singh Thind, and Linda Howard Huber, and the correspondence course of R. C. Douglass's College of Divine Metaphysics, Indianapolis, Indiana. There are also extensive notes by McDonald on occult manifestations, eastern religions, and occult personalities, including Manley P. Hall, Pundit Acharya, Bertine Powers, and Albert V. Strode.

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