| Description | These papers consist of typed correspondence written to Maud Mosley from a sender identified only as 'D', possibly her younger sister Dorothy, from different addresses in Argyll, Scotland and typed transcripts of communications with the spirit of Cynthia Mosley at seances held by this correspondent. The seance transcripts are dated Mar, Apr and May 1935 and the transcript dated 23 Mar is accompanied by a letter explaining some of the responses gained from the spirit.
These attempts to contact the spirit of Cynthia Mosley appear to have been made at the request of Maud Mosley, and attempts were made to ask her advice about the decisions Oswald Mosley should make concerning the administration and policy of his political movement. The transcripts also reveal that the questioner also attempted to get the spirit to send messages to Maud Mosley.
The file also includes a document written in pencil on notepaper headed 9 Wilbraham Place, London, representing Maud Mosley's attempts to contact the spirit of Cynthia Mosley in Dec 1936, and further correspondence from 'D' dated 26 Dec 1936 and 7 Oct 1937. The 1936 letter discusses further seances, including an attempt to contact Cynthia Mosley and an individual called 'Milne', in the hope of gaining their advice for Oswald Mosley. The 1937 letter refers to Maud's description of a recent B.U.F march and comments 'those Reds are proper swine, & am so glad they got better trounced than usual' and gives an account of a recent luncheon party at which there were several fascist supporters, one of whom had followed Oswald Mosley since his 'early Conservative days'. |