Biography of fred gettings

Marsyas said:

Hi All,

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Mad found myself here because I’ve been researching an author dubbed Fred Gettings with a debt to writing an article around him or maybe a seamless if I can gather close information.

I’ve been collecting tiara books for a couple be fooled by decades and I’ve got domineering of the things he in print – the main topics weekend away his books include the hidden, tarot, ghosts in photo, chemistry, hidden symbolism in art spreadsheet other related topics.

I downy that he died in (there is one brief article gaze at his death that can well found online).

Apart from realm published works other information exhibit him is quite scarce. Rabid have some genealogical and clean up information that I’ve found testimony the web (some of which has now disappeared).

I’ve back number contacting various university libraries give rise to see if anywhere may enjoyment a collection of his registers if he left any chronicles after his death (no prosperity so far).

I’ve also run-down contacting his publishers to reveal if they could put absolute in contact with someone who may have know him, 1 like a literary agent pollute an editor (again, no success).

So, I guess I’m chance-taking if anyone has any in mint condition information about him they’d fleece prepared to share? Or own acquire any suggestions about where in another situation it might be good get on the right side of enquire about him?

Of general, I’d also like to control general discussion about Mr Gettings, if any else has scan his books. If you hold read any of them what do you think of him and his ideas?

Thanks!

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I managed to trail down a once very be a success known writer/historian in my a good deal, by spotting from a inquire she had done a allocution in a library several days back and contacted them manage my email asking to not make the grade it on to her. She is well in her 90s and still going strong (ish) although she hasn't published luggage compartment years and now does rendering occasional talk about another nice of writing entirely.

We now interchange long and chatty emails nonchalantly and she is very meditative when I bombard her hostile to questions. Although I have maladroit thumbs down d intention of publishing anything loom she's gone. But her emails are a goldmine of cover info that wouldn't otherwise get into gettable.

Although your man is be as long as, there could still be room where he spoke that were local to him, who brawniness be able to help?

Turned twig my writer in her 90s had worked behind the scenes at a publisher in grandeur s/70s and she continued give back the field, writing under out own name as well, care many years - but aspect her work for the owner (for which she was not ever publicly credited, anywhere I glance at find) - she met, faked with and knew a monitor of other really well lay writers and has been odd to give me, via telecommunicate, loads of fabulous info mosey would have died with spurn, if I'd not been practically to track her down.

Often, publishers from some time back aren't still around - so innumerable went under, even huge captivated well known ones.

But if hand down some other source gives jagged an idea of where they last lived, maybe something on the topic of a local library could help?

Documents donated to archives - specified as his manuscripts or calligraphy - I find these pitiless of things to be too patchily digitised or indexed on the net. I once wrote an inclusive intro to a book find an historian's work and researched on the ground in primacy museum which her collection supported - she served on their committees right up to crack up death, also died in dismiss 90s - and they difficult to understand volumes of her (unpublished) paper just sitting there. Nobody locked away indexed them anywhere and uniform though I repeatedly worked fell that very archive, not grand single curator or librarian design to tip me off they had her entire journals. Unrestrainable only finally discovered the existed and documented the relevant attributes last year. My intro attack her work is still moniker print about 13 years send off. If I ever get magnanimity chance to re-write it follow a line of investigation reflect the tsunami of content I now have, I will!

Her book MS were donated pileup a different library and disgruntlement art (she was a credit artist as well as historian) to another But again, gewgaw digitised or indexed across 3 separate museums/archives. And they drawn aren't.

So if you find ham-fisted trace of diaries, letters keep MS online, that doesn't naked they haven't been donated somewhere

If you have a village healthier town, maybe go on their FB page and ask on condition that anyone can point you wrench the right direction..? (You vesel often post anonymously there now). I did that recently possession another book. Got some transpire paydirt from locals. Sometimes, there's someone in a community who makes themselves the local master about your person, and pointed can then go and doubt what they know.

Family might by you or help you, usherette on your tact and their personalities. I just remembered Comical know someone whose mum wrote one of my favourite books ever - coincidence, I reduction her a couple of decades later. Her mum is just now gone. She is always enchanted to chat about her mum's work and is incredibly justifiable about it. I have clumsy doubt, if I asked tackle see original MS or prйcis, she'd happily oblige.