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- William Salter (1880-1969) was a lawyer and psychical researcher, a one-time president of the Society for Psychical Research, with a particular interest in mental mediumship and the cross-correspondences.
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(1804 - 1875) William Salter was born in Honiton, Devon, but moved to London in his teens to become a pupil of James Northcote. Salter later travelled to Florence, where he was elected a...
Feb 12, 2021 · William Salter, who co-wrote the popular love song, told his granddaughter that the radio kept him company during a lonely childhood. When he later found the bass, he said, "I found...
- Life and Career
- Cross-Correspondences
- Experiment
- Works
- Literature
- Endnotes
William Henry Salter was born on March 19 1880 in London, where he attended St Paul’s School. He read classics at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1899, acquired a law degree there in 1902 and was called to the bar in 1905. He served with the munitions ministry during World War I and in 1918 was awarded the MBE. He married Helen de G Verrall in 1915.
Salter was particularly interested in the cross-correspondences, a body of material produced in the early twentieth century mainly by automatic writing (a type of mental mediumship) and purporting to be communicated by deceased individuals associated with the SPR. These appeared to be trying to give evidence of having survived death by creating del...
It has sometimes been argued that the web of allusions apparently contained in the cross-correspondences material might have occurred naturally and by pure chance, and been given undue significance by investigators looking for suggestive patterns. To test this, Salter carried out an experiment with ‘pseudo-scripts’.4He recruited fourteen people who...
Books
Ghosts and Apparitions(1938). London: G. Bell & Sons. Zoar, or the Evidence of Psychical Research Concerning Survival(1961). London: Sidgwick and Jackson.
Pamphlet
Trance mediumship: An introductory study of Mrs Piper and Mrs Leonard(1950). London: SPR.
Articles
Elucidation of two points in the ‘One-Horse Dawn Experiment’: The herb moly (1924). Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research34, 153-59. An experiment in pseudo-scripts (1927). Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research36, 525-54. Some automatic scripts purporting to be inspired by Margaret Veley, poet and novelist, 1843-87 (1928-29). Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research38, 281-330. The relation between parapsychical and paraphysical phenomena (1932). Journal of th...
Broad, C.D. (1970). Obituary: W.H. Salter. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research45, 203-7. Dingwall, E.J., Goldney, K.K. and Hall, T.H. (1956). The Haunting of Borley Rectory. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research51, 1-181. Haynes, R. The Society for Psychical Research 1882-1982. A History(1982). London: MacDonald & Co. Salter, ...
William Salter. (1804-1875), Portrait painter. Artist associated with 93 portraits. Studied painting under Royal Academician James Northcote from 1822 to 1827. Following his training he travelled to Florence where, in 1831, he exhibited his Socrates before the Judges of the Areopagos. Success led to his election as a member of the Florentine ...
William Salter (1804 – 22 December 1875) was an English portrait painter of the 19th century. [1] He painted a range of subjects - his best known works are The Waterloo Banquet (1836) in Apsley House and the related studies.
William Salter originally did You Got Style, When You Smile, It Is So Beautiful to Be, You and other songs. William Salter wrote When You Smile, Just the Two of Us and Where Is the Love.