WorkChauncy Hare Townshend

Facts in Mesmerism, with Reasons for a Dispassionate Inquiry into It

Facts in Mesmerism, with Reasons for a Dispassionate Inquiry into It (1840), Inferred

Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798–1868) · 1840

InferredFuller cites 'Townshend' by name in reference to his mesmeric experiments with gems on sleep-wakers.

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Documented 1843

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“Townshend, speaking of the effect of gems on one of his sleep-wakers, said, she loved the diamond so much that she would lean her forehead towards it, whenever it was brought near her.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller cites 'Townshend' by name in reference to his mesmeric experiments with gems on sleep-wakers.