Buried 19th Century Account of the Afterlife Reborn in the 21st Century

U of A reference librarian Stephen Chism knows a good story when he sees one. Buried in the archives of the University Libraries' Special Collections department is one that Chism felt was too good not to share.

In his recently published book, "The Afterlife of Leslie Stringfellow: A Nineteenth-Century Southern Family's Experiences with Spiritualism," Chism provides a reprinting of "Leslie's Letters to His Mother" (Fayetteville, Arkansas: Democrat Publishing Company, 1926). "Leslie's Letters" is an interesting artifact of the spiritual and religious climate of the late nineteenth century in its recounting of the experiences of Leslie's mother and father with "automatic writing," a form of communication with the dead.