[‘W. G. Hooper [William George Hooper], Ph. D. / World Traveller, Lecturer and Author’.] Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Dear Fellow Pilgrim’, describing his plan of a course of lessons on the relations of soul and body.

Hooper’s various titles, published between 1903 and 1941, are remarkably well represented on JISC, with holdings from the Warburg Institute to the University of Strathclyde. A precious artefact from a spiritual leader. 1p, 4to. On brittle and lightly-creased paper, aged and discoloured, with closed tears and slight loss at one corner and repair with archival tape. The handwriting is hurried and hard to decipher. Begins: ‘Dear Fellow Pilgrim / Before sending you the lessons, after reading your letter, & explaining your difficulties, I think it will be wise for you to go through the [briefest?] principles of Living in [true?] relation to your soul and [the?] body, so I am sending you a text book of a guinea course on that free.’ He continues with an explanation of the intended preparation and its costs, after which the recipient ‘will be more ready to understand the course and the main teaching which is a bit more advanced, & I am afraid until you have got a better understanding of certain principles that it would not do you the benefit you expect.’ Signed, lengthwise up one margin and over the letterhead, ‘W S Hooper’.