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Albert de Rochas Papers
(Bulk, 1882-1908) 1845-1921
Mss.Ms.Coll.106
American Philosophical Society
2004
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Philadelphia, PA, 19106
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Albert de Rochas Papers 1845-19211882-1908 Mss.Ms.Coll.106
Table of Contents
Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 3
Background note ......................................................................................................................................... 5
Scope & content ..........................................................................................................................................7
Administrative Information .........................................................................................................................8
Indexing Terms ........................................................................................................................................... 8
Collection Inventory ..................................................................................................................................10
Series I. Correspondence....................................................................................................................... 10
Series II. Photographs............................................................................................................................27
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Summary Information
Repository
American Philosophical Society
Creator
Rochas d'Aiglun, Albert de, 1837-1914
Title
Albert de Rochas Papers
Date [bulk]
Bulk, 1882-1908
Date [inclusive]
1845-1921
Call number
Mss.Ms.Coll.106
Extent
4.0 Linear feet
Location
LH-SB-18-4
Language
French
Abstract
A military officer and civilian superintendent of the École Polytechnique
in Paris, Albert de Rochas became one of the best known psychic
researchers in late nineteenth century France. His interests centered on
uncovering the laws behind psychic forces, somnambulism, magnetism
and mesmerism, hypnotism, perception, and reincarnation. A prolific
writer, he studied a number of Spiritualist and Spiritist mediums, including
Maria Mayo (Lina), Eusapia Paladino, and D. D. Home.
Despite the relatively small size of the collection, the papers of
Albert de Rochas open an important window onto the development of
psychic science in fin de siecle France and onto the cultural impact of
Spiritualism. The collection includes a scattered, but valuable selection
of correspondence with fellow psychic researchers, editors, mediums,
and other individuals interested in psychic research, and a valuable set
of 69 spirit and psychic photographs, that Rochas collected as evidence
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of psychic forces, and as documentation of séances, mediums, and
"sensitives." Rochas' work on the exteriorization of sensibility and studies
of Lina, Charles Bailey, and Paladino are relatively well documented,
and his interests in the laws of psychic phenomena, reincarnation, and the
exmigration of the living soul run throughout.
Preferred Citation
Cite as: Albert de Rochas Papers, American Philosophical Society.
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Background note
A military engineer and one of the leading psychic scientists in fin de siècle France, Albert de Rochas was
involved in research into a wide range of esoteric topics, from the spirit mediumship of Eusapia Paladino
to telepathy and telekinesis, hypnosis, human magnetism, somnambulism, reincarnation, and physical
unfolding.
Born into an old Provencal family at Saint Firmin (Haute-Alpes) on May 20, 1837, Rochas entered the
Lycée de Grenoble with the intention of studying literature, assuming that he would follow his father
and grandfather into the law. When he discovered, however, that the law was less than intellectually
stimulating, he switched to mathematics -- a subject at which he excelled -- and set his sights on a career
in engineering. After winning the school's prix d'honneur in 1856, he entered the École Polytechnique in
Paris to continue his education and to prepare for a career in the military.
In 1861, Rochas was commissioned as Lieutenant de Genie at Montpelier and quickly distinguished
himself for his knowledge of the engineering and for his superb administrative abilities. Rising quickly
through the ranks to Captain (1864), he was assigned to series of increasingly important assignments after
the Franco-Prussian War, culminating in a stint as inspector of studies at the École Polytechnique and
a short period as interim director. After earning a promotion to battalion commander in 1880, Rochas
was made chief of engineers in 1887 and was given responsibility for updating and strengthening the
fortifications around Grenoble.
A scholar at heart, Rochas first became interested in the technology of ancient and medieval engineering
while working on the construction of fortifications in the Jura in 1865. His initial attempt at academic
writing was a translation of Veterum Mathematicorum Opera (1693), an 11th century Alexandrian treatise
on fortification and machines of war, after which he took detours into Hellenism and into the physics
and mechanics used by Egyptian priests in constructing their temples. His research and writing were well
respected by his scholarly peers, his translations of Greek texts earning him a medal from the Société des
Études Grecques.
The work for which Rochas was best known, however, evolved out of an encounter in the mid-1860s with
a young man who was susceptible to being magnetized. Even as he plunged into his research on ancient
sciences and military history, Rochas applied himself with increasing vigor to the psychic and occult
sciences. His first important book on psychic science, Les Forces non Definiés (Paris: Masson, 1887),
defined the terms of much of his later research in seeking a scientific basis for occult phenomena. From
the mid-1880s into the 1910s, Rochas produced a steady stream of articles and monographs to establish
the basic principles behind the exteriorization of sensibility and presented what he was convinced was
empirical proof for the existence of a magnetic fluid capable of acting directly on the central nervous
system. In 1888, he declined a further promotion in the military to become civilian director at the École
Polytechnique, probably because he wished to devote more time to his studies.
Eclectic and evolving, tinged with the Orientalist currents running through contemporary Theosophy and
Spiritualism, Rochas touched upon a wide range of topics. Following his widely read work on ancient
science, La Science des Philosophes at l'Art des Thaumaturges dans l'Antiquité (Paris: Masson, 1882), he
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turned to topics such as hypnotism ( L'État Profond de l'Hypnose), death and reincarnation ( Les Vies
Successives, 1911; La Suspension de la Vie, 1913), telekinesis ( Extériorisation de la motricité, 1896),
and the physical basis of psychic experience ( Les Fluides des Magnétiseurs, 1891; Extériorisation de
la Sensibilité, 1895; Les Frontières de la Physique,1898; and Les Frontières de la Science, 1902-1904).
He was particularly renowned for a series of experiments conducted with his friends General Thomassin,
John Maxwell, De Watteville, and A. de Gramont on the famous Italian medium Eusapia Paladino in
which they reported the materialization of spirit hands. His detailed study of the hypnotic subject, Maria
Mayo (Mlle Lina), was part of an attempt to assess the influence of music upon human emotions and to
measure the human physical response ( Les Sentiments, La Musique, et les Gestes, 1900).
Rochas believed firmly that the scientific study of psychic phenomena would allay people of the fear of
death and, by replacing faith with scientifically sound reason, would bring them into closer connection to
God. He was named an honorary member of the Académie Delphinale, the Académies of Savoie, Blois,
and Aix, and the Sociétéde Psychologie Scientifique of Munich, and was made a Chevalier in the Legion
d'Honneur in 1875 and an officer in 1889. He died on September 2, 1914.
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Scope & content
Despite the relatively small size of the collection, the papers of Albert de Rochas open an important
window onto the development of psychic science in fin de siecle France and onto the cultural impact of
Spiritualism. The collection includes a scattered, but valuable selection of correspondence with fellow
psychic researchers, editors, mediums, and other individuals interested in psychic research, and a valuable
set of 69 spirit and psychic photographs, that Rochas collected as evidence of psychic forces, and as
documentation of séances, mediums, and "sensitives." Rochas' work on the exteriorization of sensibility
and studies of Maria Mayo (Lina), Charles Bailey, and Eusapia Paladino are relatively well documented,
and his interests in the laws of psychic phenomena, reincarnation, and the exmigration of the living soul
run throughout.
Other aspects of Rochas' career are much less well documented. There is little of family interest in the
collection, and only a few items pertaining to his interest in ancient history or engineering. His military
career is also poorly documented, although the collection includes a number of letters from former
colleagues in the military, some of a personal nature and others relating to military history.
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Administrative Information
Publication Information
American Philosophical Society 2004
Provenance
Acquisition Information
Acquired from John Gach Books, 2002.
Processing Information
Catalogued by rsc, 2004.
Indexing Terms
Genre(s)
• Photographs
• Radiographs
Personal Name(s)
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Aksakov, Aleksandr, 1832-1903
Bailey, Charles
Besant, Annie Wood, 1847-1933
Buguet, Edouard-Isidore, 1840Foras, Eloi Amédée Jacques François, 1830-1899
Hasdeu-Istrati, Bogdan Petriceicu, 1837-1907
Henry, Charles
Lina
Mucha, Alphonse Marie, 1860-1939
Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910
Orléans, Henri Philippe Marie, prince d', 1867-1907
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Paladino, Eusapia, 1854Pelletier, Horace
Reichel, Willy
Rostoptchine, Lydie, 1837-1915
Schrenck-Notzing, Albert Philibert Franz, 1862-1929
Tissot, James, 1836-1902
Van der Naillen, A. (Albert), 1820-1928
Visani Scozzi, Paolo
Subject(s)
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Dreams
Ecstasy
Hypnotism
Magnetism
Mediums
Music--Psychological aspects
Parapsychology
Psychology--France
Reincarnation
Spirit photography
Spiritism--France
Spiritualism--France
Telepathy
Theosophy
X-rays
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Series I. Correspondence
Collection Inventory
(Bulk, 1882-1908)
1845-1916
1.25 lin. feet
Although incomplete, even fragmentary, Rochas' correspondence touches on a wide range of his
interests in psychic research between about 1885 and 1910, including some scarce published articles
from the psychic and popular press and several pamphlets on topics of interest. In most cases,
correspondents are represented by only one or two letters lacking Rochas' replies. Pieced together,
however, these provide an outline of his major research interests and of his connections to other
significant psychic researchers in France, Germany, Italy, and elsewhere, such as Albert Philibert
Franz Schrenk-Notzing, Willy Reichel, Bogdan Hasdeu-Istrati, and Alexander Aksakoff. Rochas also
maintained correspondence with a number of artists and writers, including James Tissot, Alphonse
Mucha (although there are no letters from Mucha present).
Concerned with documenting Spiritualist séances and exploring the underlying basis of psychic
phenomena, Rochas received a regular influx of letters from other investigators describing their
experiences and experiments. His colleagues kept Rochas informed of the activities of the mediums
Eusapia Paladino and Charles Bailey, of research conducted in Italy, France, Germany, Australia,
and the United States (see A. Van der Naillen), and there are excellent accounts of experiences with
somewhat lesser known operators such as Mme Escalier (see Fernand Boudron), Mme. Adam (see the
fascinating 10 page account of psychic occurrences at a seance by Lydie Rostoptchine), Mme Corner,
and the Theosophist Mme Blavatsky. More unusual is the letter of M. Lagelouse, who writes that she
has been persecuted for eight years, and who sends the names of friends near the moon to vouch for her.
The Orientalism that marked Spiritualism and Spiritism in the latter decades of the 19th century can be
seen throughout the Rochas Papers, not only in the correspondence with or about Theosophists. There
are excellent letters on reincarnation from G. Berger, C. Cania, and Annie Besant (the Theosophist), and
there is a hint of it in his interest in the possibility of the exmigration of the living soul (see Alexandre
Goupil's Cas de vision fantomale and Cas de vision fantomale d'un vivant) and his work on Ecstasy.
There is a considerable quantity of material on the sensitive Maria Mayo (Lina) -- Schrenck-Notzing's
subject -- and on the physiological effect of music (see e.g. Frandoni Lacombe, Atelier Mucha). Among
the miscellaneous items of note are a wonderful letter by the Danish military engineer E. Christmas-
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Dirckinck-Holmfeld on spirit photography, and a small number of letters from otherwise unidentified
persons (e.g. Berthe Dole) who wrote to share their personal psychic experiences.
Unidentified author
Marie
Box 1
1906 Jan. 21
1 item
Box 1
1901 Feb.
2 items
Box 1
1903 Dec. 18
2 items
Box 1
Spirit photography
Adam, Mme
Re: Lina
Adamovich, Elisabeth
Hypnotism and photography. Carte de visite of Adamovich transferred to Ser. II (under Varenik and
Vladimirov.
Aksakoff, Alexander -- Un cas de
n.d.
AMs, 28p.
Box 1
1902 April 11
ALS, 2p.
Box 1
dématérialization partielle du corps d'un
medium
Mentions Guppy, Blavatsky, and others
Albarracin, Francisco
Wishes to meet to discuss Rochas' psychological studies
Anastay, E.
1906 Apr. 29
ALS, 4p.
Box 1
Argus de la Presse
1896, 1905
2
Box 1
newsclippings
Arnould, Arthur
1894 Dec. 21
ALS, 3p.
Box 1
Astruc, S.
1889 Dec. 19
ALS, 2p.
Box 1
Atelier Mucha -- Premier Essai d'un
1899 Dec. 3
Pr. program, Box 1
Theosophy
Ballet: Avec Gestes et Pas Déterminés
6p.
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par les Actions Réflexes de la Musique sur
l'Organisme Humain
With images taken from Rochas' "Les Sentiments, la Musique et le Geste"
Aubry, Desirée
n.d.
PC, 2p.
Box 1
Bader, G.
1897 July 9-17
2 ALsS
Box 1
AMs, 11p.
Box 1
Mme Eugenie Engel; translation of the Seherin von Prevorst
Bailey, Charles -- La Seima et Ame -- W.
1908
Britton Harvey
Account of Bailey's "Miracles à Melbourne." Includes newspaper clipping "La disavventura del
medium Bailey e de' suoi 'ignicolori'" (in Italian).
Barrett-Lennard, H.
1900 Jan. 1
ALS, 2p.
Box 1
Barruet, Elie
1900 Feb. 28-1901 Jan. 30
5 items
Box 1
Bartolomeis, Alissandro
n.d.
2 items
Box 1
1909 Dec. 30-1910 Feb. 11
4 items
Box 1
In English
Ghosts of living persons. In Italian
Bénezet, Alfred
Mention of Charles Bailey, Aksakoff, Reichel, Fontenay, publications. "Nous continuons ici nos
expériences." Dematerialization.
Bénezet, Jeannemaire
1908 Dec. 15-1909 Jan. 5
3 ALsS
Box 1
Berger, G.
n.d.
2p.
Box 1
1905 Oct. 7-Nov. 29
2 ALsS
Box 1
On Reincarnation.
Besant, Annie
On Reincarnation.
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Bodroun, Fernand
n.d.
2p. (inc.)
Box 1
Instances of "exteriorization of sensibility" in séances with Mme Escalier, Mr. Tayons.
Boissans, Archdeacon
n.d.
ALS, 4p.
Box 1
Boissonet, A.
1902 Aug. 10
ALS, 3p.
Box 1
Borie, Albert -- Études physiognomiques
n.d.
AMs, 4p.
Box 1
1889 May 16
ALS 2p.
Box 1
Bourget, Paul -- Le double de Maupanant
n.d.
AMs, 1p.
Box 1
Breazeale, Guillaume Eugène
1890 May 19
ALS, 1p.
Box 1
ALS, 2p.
Box 1
Photographs and "projections."
[reading notes?]
Bornier, Henri
L'Art des Thaumaturges, Magnetism.
From Belton, South Carolina. Wishes to study mathematics in Europe.
Briots, cas aux
1904 June 7
(inc.)
Experiences with Mme Lay-Fonvieille.
Brouardel, P.
1889 Aug. 16
ALS, 1p.
Box 1
Cania, C.
1905 Jan. 29
ALS, 4p.
Box 1
"Si chaque changement de personalité serait un Entité nouvelle qui se présente, vous seriez trompé!"
Magnetism, reincarnation.
Cahagnet, Alphonse -- Les Arcanes de la
n.d.
Vie Future Dévoilés
Printed pam, Box 1
4p.
Caillard, Paul
1900-1916
4 items
Box 1
Calvé, E.
n.d.
ALS, 4p.
Box 1
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Carnot, Adolphe
1900 Nov. 6
Wedding
Box 1
invtitation
Cavaignac,
n.d. (Dec. 14)
ALS, 2p.
Box 1
Cazaux, Em de
1896 Dec. 28
ALS, 2p.,
Box 1
printed flier
Christmas-Dirckinck-Holmfeld, E. de
1895 Nov. 20
ALS, 4p.
Box 1
Coillot, Col.
1895 Feb. 9
ALS, 2p.
Box 1
Collot, J.
1895 Feb. 8
ALS, 1p.
Box 1
Colson, R.
1889 Nov. 17
ALS, 2p.
Box 1
Combe, E.
1889 June 3
PC, 1p.
Box 1
Constantin, comte de
1898 Mar. 8
ALS, 2p.
Box 1
Cotes, Jean
1900 April 11
ALS, 3p.
Box 1
Croula, Edward
1897 June 21
ALS, 2p.
Box 1
Crozat, Marie de
n.d.
ALS, 2p.
Box 1
Dame Noire et Dame Blanche
n.d.
Newspaper
Box 1
Psychic photography
Magnetism.
"Doubles" of the living.
clipping
Dariex, Dr.
1901 Mar. 25
ALS, 1p.
Box 1
Debron, Paul
1900-1901
7 ALsS
Box 1
De la Crois, J. E.
1890 Jan. 17
ALS, 1p.
Box 1
Sending address of Schrenck-Notzing
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Delanne, G.
1911 Apr. 4
ALS, 2p.
Box 1
Denizet, H.
1901 Jult 29
ALS, 3p.
Box 1
Des Snart, G. T.
n.d.
ALS, 3p.
Box 1
Dessin a remettre a Devaux... [dessein d'un 1839 June
Tech.
Box 1
echelle double]
drawing
Deux Amis arrivent a Mégare...
n.d.
AMs, 33p.
Box 1
Doinel, Jules
1892 Mar. 23
ALS, 4p.
Box 1
Dole, Berthe
1897 July 5-27
2 ALsS
Box 1
On telepathy and psychic experiences
Magnetic experiences with her mother and others and practical results.
Dolat, M.
n.d.
ALS, 4p.
Box 1
Donop
1893 June 3
ALS, 4p.
Box 1
Echaguez, F.
n.d.
ALS, 6p.
Box 1
Interest in psychic experiences. From Spanish Embassy in Paris.
L'Écho du Merveilleux 12, no. 277
1908 July 15
Magazine
Box 1
L'Écho du Merveilleux 13, no. 291
1909 Feb. 15
Magazine
Box 1
n.d.
20 items
Box 1
Psychic mag. With article by W. T. Stead
Ecstase
Includes manuscript notes on ecstasy and divination in antiquity and 4 printed articles: "A propos
de reves prémonitaires et de paramnésie;" "Faits anormaux;" "De la folie religieuse;" "Phénomenes
Mystiques" (from Le Voile d'Isis)
Faure-Biguet, P.
1894 Dec.-1904 June 10
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3 items
Box 1
Fernandez, Federico
1898 Sept. 21
ALS, with
Box 1
trans.
In Spanish, from Sec. of the Argentine Theosophical Society
Fevrier, J.
1890 Aug. 12
ALS, 2p.
Box 1
Flamion, J.
1897 Feb. 16
ALS, 5p.
Box 1
Flammarion, Sylvie
1893 Jan. 22
ALS, 3p.
Box 1
Fontenay, Guillaume de
1910 Jan. 2-Feb. 11
2 ALsS
Box 1
Foras, Eloi Amédée Jacques François de
1876 Dec. 19
ALS, 4p.
Box 1
Foudrier, Adrien
1849 Oct. 16
ALS, 1p.
Box 1
Gaillard, M. -- Oisivetés de M. Vauban
1845
Pam., 137p. : Box 1
Psychic experiences.
Mentions Bailey and Richet.
(Paris: J. Corréard, 1845)
ill.
With extra sheets from "Sur l'usage que l'on peut faire des Galères en Bretagne."
Gacogne, E.
n.d.
ALS, 4p.
Box 1
Gobers, F.
1891 Jan. 30
ALS, 3p.
Box 1
1909 Aug. 1
ALS and
Box 1
Military service in Poland, Russia.
Goupil, Alexandre[?]
enclosure
Encloses "Cas de vision fantomale" and "Cas de vision fantomale d'un vivant."
Gordon-Setter-Club -- Programme et
1891
Reglement des Field-Trials de 1891
Paul Caillard, President
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Pam., 8p.
Box 1
Grandhauy, Gerard
1888 Nov. 24
ALS, 4p.
Box 1
Gramont, A.
n.d.
ALS, 2p.
Box 1
Haemmerle, Agathe
1902 June 6
ALS, 4p.
Box 1
Hasdeu-Istrati, Bogdan Petriceicu
1895 Aug. 12-1899 Feb. 14 2 ALsS
Box 1
Havet, L.
1882 Feb. 2
ALS, 2p.
Box 1
Henderson, E.
1890 Jan. 29
ALS, 2p.
Box 1
Pam., 31p.
Box 1
Newspaper
Box 1
See Series II for photographs enclosed.
Henry, Charles -- Application de Nouveaux 1890
Instruments de Précision... à l'Archéologie
(Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1890)
Henry, Charles -- Le Livre de l'Avenir
n.d.
clipping
Henry, Charles -- Sur une Loi Générale des 1889
Pam., 37p.
Box 1
Réactions Psycho-Motrices (Paris: Assoc.
Française des Sciences, 1888)
Hübbe-Scheliden, Wilhelm
1901 Apr. 14
PC, 1p.
Box 1
Ille[?], Ch. d'
1909 Oct. 14
ALS, 4p.
Box 2
Joire, Paul -- "Étude de Psychologie
n.d.
8p.
Box 2
1895
Pam, 29p.
Box 2
1903 May 25
ALS, 1p.
Box 2
Musicale, L'Expression Pure des Sentiments
et des Passions"
With photos of Lina
Kardec, Allan -- Phénomènes Spirites
Observés auGroupe Amitié de Lyon de 1884
à 1890 (Tours, 1895)
Keil, Alfred
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Kjellman, F.
1889 Aug. 21
ALS, 2p.
Box 2
Labadye, cte de
n.d.
ALS, 2p.
Box 2
Lacombe, Mad. Frandoni
n.d.
ALS, 7p.
Box 2
Lacoste
1893 Aug. 10
ALS, 4p.
Box 2
Laffaut, C.
1889 May 9
ALS, 4p.
Box 2
Lagelouse, M.
1903 Mar. 10
ALS, 4p.
Box 2
Human magnetism.
Music and the sentiments.
Has been persecuted for eight years; sends names of friends near the moon to vouch for her.
Lamontas, Marie de
n.d.
5 ALsS
Box 2
Langalerud, G. de
1890 Feb. 2, 22
2 ALsS
Box 2
Le Bon, Gustave
n.d.
Pr. Invitation Box 2
Lemoine, Emile
n.d.
ANS, 1p.
Box 2
2 folders
Box 2
2 items
Box 2
Lina
Folder 1
1884
Lina M. was a young woman with whom, Schrenk-Notzing conducted experiments in thought
transferrance. Includes pam: Premier Essay d'un Ballet and copy of Bulletin de l'Imprimerie et de
la Librarie, Oct. 25, 1884.
Folder 2
1901 Nov. 4
ALS, 2p.
Box 2
ALS with
Box 2
Includes 4 other items of uncertain relationship foldered together.
Linder
1894 Mar. 10
encl.
Encloses letter to Linder
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Magnin, Emile
1904-1905
5 items
Box 2
Includes 2 ALsS, PC, and 2 pams: "'Magdeleine' Étude sur le Geste au Moyen de l'Hypnose" and "De
l'Interprétation artistique" (with photos of Lina).
Marie(?)
1906 Jan. 21
ALS, 1p.
Box 2
Dariex has recommended Rochas as the person to give permission to reproduce photographs of
"doubles." Author is editor of Nice Illustré.
Les Matérialisations
1906
Pr.Ms, 18p.
Box 2
Maugin, L.(?)
1888 Nov. 9
ALS, 2p.
Box 2
Maurice, C.
1900 July 10
ALS, 1p.
Box 2
Maxwell, Joseph
1905, 1910
2 items
Box 2
Includes copy of Maxwell's pam. Sur les Phénomènes de Hantise (Paris, 1905).
Mesnard, H.
1911 Mar. 28
ALS, 2p.
Box 2
Sending a photograph taken by new process. Includes note and envelope that may not be related.
Meyerson, Émile -- Les Travaux de
1890
Pam., 5p.
Box 2
Montorsaux, Georges
n.d.
ALS, 2p.
Box 2
Moskvitissoff, Barbe de
1897 Apr. 15
ALS, 3p.
Box 2
Moulins, L.
n.d.
ALS, 1p.
Box 2
Néon, Françcois de -- De Françcois de
n.d.
AMs, 6p.
Box 2
M. Charles Henry sur une Théorie
Mathématique de l'Expression (Paris:
Armand Collin, 1890)
Néon, Courrier de Paris, Sue le Sueil du
Mystère
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Occultism, notes
n.d.
AMs, 14
Box 2
items
Occultisme Pratique
n.d.
Pr. Ms, 6p.
Box 2
Olivier, Emile
1894 July 12
AMsS Poem, Box 2
3p.
Orléans, Henri Philippe Marie, prince d'
n.d.
5 items
Box 2
Includes 3 ALsS, newspaper clipping on Orleans, and calling card for Robert d'Orleans. Mentions
Eusapia Paladino.
Peaucellier, Gen.
1888 Sept. 26
Pr. Circ. LS, Box 2
3p. (2 cies)
Pelletier, Horace
1888-1890
6 ALsS
Box 2
Perneuil, C. de.
1895-1897
2 ALsS
Box 2
Perrin, Maurice-Henri
1906 Apr. 7
ALS, 4p.
Box 2
Perrot, G.
1887 May 30
ALS, 4p.
Box 2
Pr. M, 28p.
Box 2
Spiritualism and spiritualists
Pfeifer, Xaver -- "Des Goldenen Schnittes," 1887
Sphinx 4, 24 (1887): 369 ff.
In German
Pierrou(?), Gen.
n.d.
3 ALsS
Box 2
Pillot, J.
n.d.
ALS, 2p.
Box 2
Pinot, Anna
1893 May 22
ALS, 3p.
Box 2
Piore, L. C. Em.
1898 Apr. 22
ALS, 2p.
Box 2
Polosoff, N. de
1889 Aug. 16
ALS, 2p.
Box 2
1872
Pam., 24p.
Box 2
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Pont, Abbé de -- Réflexions à Propos des
Origines du Patois de la Tarentaise (Paris,
1872)
A Propos de Rachel
n.d.
AMs, 4p.
Box 2
Reboux, Paul (?) -- Instinct des animaux
n.d.
AMs, 6p.
Box 2
With newspaper clipping signed by Reboux.
Recherches expérimentales au sujet du
n.d.
Pr. Ms, 18p. Box 2
1909-1910
18 items
Box 2
1909
AMs, 11p.
Box 2
1897 Oct. 10
ALS, 4p.,
Box 2
Fantôme des Vivants
Reichel, Willy
Includes letter from Charles Bailey, T. Thomassins, H. Beckh
[Reichel, Willy]. Le Professeur Willy
Reichel
Ripault, A.
encl.
Revue Ampère 2 (1901)
1901
Pam.
Box 2
Revue Suisse des Sciences Psychiques 1
1913
Pam., 32p.
Box 2
n.d.
Pr. Ms,
Box 2
(1913)
Rochas D'Aiglun, Eugene Auguste Albert
[Biographical entry in Dictionnaire
Biographique Internationale des écrivains
des Artistes...]
p.53-56
1888
-- Les Doctrines Chimiques au XVIIe Siècle
(Paris, 1888)
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Pam., 13p.
Box 2
Includes loose illus. showing points of connection between points on the face and parts of the body
and newspaper clipping "Malades et médecins -- Curieuse étude de M. Albert de Rochas," Sept. 27,
1890.
Rochas D'Aiglun, Eugene Auguste Albert -- 1908
Pam. (2
"Enrégistrement photographique des êtres
et radiations de l'espace," Lumière no. 329
(1908)
copies), 8p.
Box 2
Reprint.
Rochas D'Aiglun, Eugene Auguste Albert -- n.d.
AMs, 13p.
Box 2
Les expériences très intéressants de M. de
Rochas...
1895
Pr. Ms, 15p. Box 2
n.d.
Newspaper
-- "Les Fantomes des Vivants," Sciences
Psychique 5 (1905): 257-272
-- "Nouvelles expériences relatives au coprs
astal et au rapport magnétique," La Vie
Nouvelle
clipping, 2p.
AMs, 10p.
Box 2
Box 2
Psychic research. Notes
Notes of "suggestions abstraits," transport of sensibility, photographic evidence.
AMs and Pr. Box 2
"Le Rêve"
Ms, 15p.
Source uncertain.
1901
Page proof
Box 2
n.d.
Pr. Ms, 4p.
Box 2
-- "Les sentiments, la musique et le geste,"
Journal d'Études Psychologiques
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Rochas D'Aiglun, Eugene Auguste Albert -"Les vies successives"
[Rochas d'Aiglun, Edouard Eugène Louis
1899 May 5
Pr. Ms, 1p.
Box 2
1901 Aug. 3
DS, 4p.
Box 2
1901 May 20
ALS, 4p.
Box 2
1900
4 items
Box 2
1900
AMs, 10p.
Box 2
Pr. Ms, 8p.
Box 2
de. Death notice]
Rochas D'Aiglun, François Gabriel Henri
-- Marriage contract with Marie Madeleine
Claire Caillard
Rossolowsko, W.
Aksakoff's health. Translation of the Seherin von Prevorst.
Rostoptchine, Lydie
Includes 2 ALsS, ANS, List.
Rostoptchine, Lydie -- Une Matinée chez
Madame Adam en 1900, par la contesse
Lydie Rostoptchine
[Rothschild, James de]. Le Baron James de n.d.
Rothschild
With frontis. engr. of Rothschild. Source uncertain, signed (in print) Morgand et Fatout.
Saint Antoine de Padove
n.d.
AMs, 12p.
Box 2
Probably part of longer mss (pages numbered beginning 5).
Sanchez, F.
1896 Dec. 20
ALS, 3p.
Box 2
Sassan, Angèle Autine
1897 June 6
ALS, 3p.
Box 2
[Saul, H.]?
n.d.
3 ALsS
Box 2
Pam., 26p.
Box 2
Sausse, Henri -- Le Spiritisme à Lyon (Saint- 1905
Amand, Switzerland: Daniel-Chambon,
1905)
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Schrenk-Notzing, Albert Philibert Franz
1901 June 18
Box 2
Schrenk-Notzing, Albert Philibert Franz
1887
Offprint, 11p. Box 2
Scymon, R.(?)
1885 Dec. 22
ALS, 4p.
Box 2
Sebert, Gen.
1892 May 4
ALS, 2p.
Box 2
Sue, Eugene
1846 Oct. 24
ALS, 4p.
Box 2
-- "Telepathische experimente des
Sonderausschusses der Psychologischen
Gesellschaft zu München," Sphinx
Experiments with Lina.
Letter to Eugene Sue from a German admirer, "E."
Sulzbach, M.
n.d.
ALS, 3p.
Box 2
Thesosophy
1905
3 items
Box 3
Includes AMs, Phénomênes de régressions de la mémorie and ALsS from D. A. Corumes (Mar. 25,
1905) and C. Remise (May 23, 1905)
Thomassins, Gen.
1892 Nov. 20
ALS, 1p.
Box 2
Tissot, James
1895 Oct. 28
ALS, 2p.
Box 3
La Tribute Psychique no. 113 (1906)
1906 Sept.
Mag., 8p.
Box 3
1906 Dec.
Mag., 8p.
Box 3
1907 Feb. 15
ALS, 4p.
Box 3
1903 Nov. 12
ALS, 4p.
Box 3
With article on seances with medium M. Miller.
La Tribute Psychique no. 116 (1906)
More on medium Miller.
Ulmès, J. d'
Mention of Lina, "l'hypnotisée."
Valière, Laurent
- Page 24 -
Van der Naillen, A.
1902-1906
7 ALsS
Box 3
Mention of Thomassins, Bailey, Reichel, Miller; Spiritualism in California.
Van Rutten, A.
1897 June 8
ALS, 1p.
Box 3
Vaud(?) G.
1889 Mar. 11
ALS, 3p.
Box 3
Vaux-Royer, Rose M.
1901 June 14
ALS, 2p.
Box 3
Queries on telepathy and psychic research from the Bureau of Psychic Research f the One Hundred
Year Club.
Viard, G.
1904 Jan. 23
ALS, 3p.
Box 3
Vicat, C.
1899 Apr. 27
ALS, 2p.
Box 3
Villeneuve, M. de
1895 July 4
ALS, 3p.
Box 3
Villewitz, T. de
1903 Feb. 26
ALS, 4p.
Box 3
Virien, Mis de
1895-1900
2 ALsS
Box 3
3 ALsS
Box 3
Compliments on Rochas' exteriorisation of sensibility.
Visani Scozzi, Paolo
1897-1898
In Italian (one with translation into French). Re: Eusapia Paladino, Camille Flammarion.
Vitte, P.
1894-1896
6 ALsS
Box 3
Volpi, E.
1901 Nov. 18
PC, 1p.
Box 3
3 ALsS
Box 3
Waldner de Freundstein, Thuret contesse de 1902 Apr. 22-May 1
Mention of Eusapia Paladino.
Wallace, Alfred Russel -- "Étude sur
n.d.
Pr. Ms., 30p. Box 3
1898 Sept. 18
ALS, 4p.
les apparitions" Annales des Sciences
Psychiques
Watraszewski, Xavier de
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Box 3
Eusapia Paladino.
Wendelstadt, Albertine, baronne de
1900
5 items
Box 3
Willenewitz, M.
n.d.
ALS, 2p.
Box 2
Wiszniewski
1898 Mar. 14-1900 July 25
2 ALsS
Box 3
Seances with Mme Corner, reference to William Crookes and Kaite King.
Witte, Gen.
1898 Sept. 21
ALS, 3p.
Box 3
Wladimiroff, Cécile de
1908 June 23
ALS, 3p.
Box 3
Wrchovsky, Guillaume
1907 Apr. 14
ALS, 3p.
Box 3
Wulff, Gen.
1889 Dec. 29
ALS, 2p.
Box 3
Yve-Plessis, R.
1899 Dec. 23-26
3 items
Box 3
Miscellaneous
n.d.
11 items
Box 3
Miscellaneous: calling cards and invitations n.d.
13 items
Box 3
Illegible and unidentified
17 items
Box 3
Hypnotism and regression; Indians.
1862 May 2-1910 Jan. 27
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Series II. Photographs
1873-1921
0.5 lin. feet
Rochas evidently placed a great importance on photography as a means of documenting elusive spiritual
and psychic phenomena, and the Rochas Papers includes 69 photographs depicting spirits, psychic
forces, séances, mediums, and "sensitives" taken between ca.1875 and 1900. Spirit photographs seem to
have been of particular interest, and his papers include two interesting images taken by the famed (and
debunked) Parisian Eugène Buguet, two prints of the spirit Bien Boa (a "Brahmin" materialized by the
medium Marthe Béraud), and several other images, the most intriguing of which was taken in Elizabeth,
N.J., of Elena de Obarrio, in which her guardian spirit and the spirit of her sleeping (and very much
alive) brother also appear. This image was taken by, or with the assistance of the Cuban medium J. R.
Simoni. Rochas also kept photographs of a séance conducted by Guy de Fontenay with Eusapia Paladino
at Montfor l'Amaury, July 1897, including two cabinet cards of a séance in progress and a psychicallyproduced image of Paladino's face.
Less common are a suite of photographs that demonstrate the reality of psychic forces. A fine carte de
visite of Gustave Flaschoen taken by the British photographer Brittlebank displays the "force psychique
sortant de ses mains," while three cartes provide a dramatic illustration of psychic force being generated
by a circle held by the medium John Beattie in Bristol, England. The photographs Rochas collected of
"sensitives" reflect his interests in the physical effects of art and music and his interest in the experience
of religious or spiritual ecstasy.
Other images document psychic forces in less concrete ways. The collection includes a series of
11 images associated with the Romanian psychic investigator Bogdan Hasdeu-Istrati (see also his
correspondence), 11 "doubles" of Mme. Lambert, sent to Rochas by the editor G. Delanne, and the
image by Mme de Valpinson are generally difficult to interpret visually, while in those of Paolo Visani
Scozzi (apparently mounted for public display) one can see dim faces arising from amorphous psychic
clouds. Rochas was also not coincidentally interested in x-radiography, acquiring a very early (March
1897) x-radiograph of a hand, apparently kept as demonstration that photography could reveal structures
otherwise hidden to the eye. Equally interesting are several images taken by the photographer Nadar,
including five boudoir cards of Rochas himself with an astral body "obtenu par trucage."
Beattie, John
1873 Oct.
"Photo obtenu par Mr. J. Beattie, en 1872,
à Bristol Reçu de lui en Oct. 1873. A.
Aksakof"
4 cartes de
visite
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Box 3
Depicting spirit circle with psychic force emanating from hands. Also includes halftone reproduction
of three of the images.
Béraud, Marthe
1905
2 silver prints Box 3
Spirit Bien Boa
Photos taken of spirit on Indian Brahmin materialized by medium Eva C. (Marthe Béraud) before
investigator Charles Richet.
Spirit of Bien Boa appearing to medium ca. 1890
1.0
Marthe Beraud.
Photograph(s)
Spirit of Bien Boa appearing to medium Marthe Beraud. , ca. 1890
[http://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/graphics:3853]
Blois
n.d.
Cab. card
Box 3
1875
Carte de
Box 3
Extase religieuse par la premon de front
Brittlebank, A.
Dr. Flaschoen, "force psychique sortant de
ses mains."
visite
Possibly the artist Gustave Flaschoen?
Dr. Flaschoen, "force psychique sortant de ses mains.", 1875
Buguet, Edouard-Isidore, 1840-
1875
Female spirit and photograph
Buguet, Edouard-Isidore, 1840-
Box 3
visite
1875
Dr. Puch et Mme Puch
Castellani, Federico
Carte de
Carte de
Box 3
visite
n.d.
Cabinet card Box 3
n.d.
Silver print
Photographe spirite du capitaine Volpi
Volpi with female spirit.
Chowasky, Gen.
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Box 3
"Doubles" Photos sent by Delanne, taken of 1906
11 prints
Oversize 4
2 cartes, 2
Box 3
Mme. Lambert
Ecstatic
n.d.
enlargements
"Études photo magnétique d'hypnose"
n.d.
2 mounted
Box 3
albumens
One depicts Rochas and female hypnotic subject, the other a woman (hypnotized?) painting at an
easel.
Fakir
n.d.
Printing out Box 3
print
Hasdeu-Istrati, Bogdan Petriceicu,
1893
1837-1907
Psychic photographs
11 printing
Box 3
out prints
Most enclosed in letter of 1895 Aug. 12
Karren, Mme. Musique. "Portrait de
n.d.
Boudoir card Box 3
sensitif"
Lina (photographs of 1. castle and 2. group n.d.
2 mounted
of six persons in boat)
albumen prints
Nadar
1893
"Corps astral obtenu par trucage"
Nadar
Box 3
cards
1893 June 3
"Photographie du corps fluidique de Mme
Lambert (deux fantomes de droites)" and
"Photographie du corps astral de Mme.
Lambert"
Obarrio, Elena de. Mlle Elena de Obarrio
5 boudoir
Box 3
2 boudoir
Box 3
cards
1875 Nov.
incarnée. Spirite 1o son Gardien (à gauche)
Carte de
visite
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Box 3
2o son jeune frère (à droite, celui-ci dormait
à cet instant dans sa maison située à 300 pas
de la fotografie. Elizabet, New Jersey"
Medium J. R. Simoni of Cuba.
Paladino, Eusapia
1897 July 27
3 prints
Box 3
3 photos from seance with Guy de Fontenay at Montfor l'Amaury, July 1897: 2 cabinet cards of
seance at table, psychic impression of face.
Picardy, Charles
n.d.
2 silver prints Box 3
Unidentified miniatures
"Radiographie. Plaque impressionié pendant 1894
Mounted
la nuit par les affleuves de l'abbé Gobart"
p.o.p.
"Souvenir de baptême de l'air"
Box 3
1921 Sept. 28
Silver print
Box 3
n.d.
Printing out Box 3
French officers in front of biplane.
Spirit photograph [unidentified image of
two shrouded figures
Valpinson, Mme de "[illeg.] obtenu par
print
n.d.
Boudoir card Box 3
n.d.
Carte de
Mme de Valpinson. Je ne sais comment.
Avec des plaques du Dr. Egbert Müller,
Berlin..."
Varenik and Vladimirov
Grn. Mickhail Efremovich Adamovich
Virien, Mis de
Box 3
visite
1897 Nov.
Silver print
Oversize 4
1898 Sept. 8-10
6 prints
Box 4
X-radiograph of hand
Visani-Scozzi, Paolo. Psychic photos from
seances with comtesse Mainardi and Ugo
Donati
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Mounted in pairs with description.
Nadar astral portrait of Eugene Rochas,
ca. 1890
sitting.
1.0
Photograph(s)
Nadar astral portrait of Eugene Rochas, sitting. , ca. 1890
Nadar astral portrait of Eugene Rochas,
ca. 1890
standing.
1.0
Photograph(s)
Nadar astral portrait of Eugene Rochas, standing. , ca. 1890
Séance with John Beattie, medium.
1872
1 item
Séance with John Beattie, medium., 1872
Transparent figure of female in robes beside ca. 1890
1.0 Item(s)
table.
Transparent figure of female in robes beside table. , ca. 1890
Spirit in death pose behind seated man.
ca. 1890
Spirit in death pose behind seated man. , ca. 1890
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1.0 Item(s)

Albert de Rochas Papers - American Philosophical Society

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