Paula Roberts papers
Scope and Contents note
Articles, biographical sketches and obituaries, correspondence, ghost files, notes, photographs, projects, published predictions, remote viewing session files, videotapes, and other materials collected by, or created by, Paula Roberts.
Dates
- 1983-2020, undated
Creator
- Roberts, Paula, 1954- (Person)
Conditions Governing Access note
Open to all users.
Conditions Governing Use note
All rights transferred to the University of West Georgia.
Biographical/Historical note
Paula Roberts is a British-born psychic.
Paula Christina Roberts was born on January 27, 1954 in Middlesbrough in the northeast of England and moved to New York City in 1978. She undertook a course of development at the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain in London. Roberts has been featured on television shows, including Unsolved Mysteries, and has been featured in newspaper and magazine articles. Her annual predictions in Cindy Adams's column in the New York Post began in 1986. She has worked as a paranormal investigator with noted parapsychologist Dr. Michaeleen Maher and their work together has been documented in two editions of the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research. She also conducts handwriting analysis, having trained at the American Franklin School of Contemporary Studies with Patricia Marne. In 1996 she was introduced to Ingo Swann by Dr. Maher and conducted an investigation in his home, and later participated in remote viewings with him.
Extent
5.15 Linear feet (10 boxes)
Language
English
Overview
Papers of New York psychic, Paula Roberts
Arrangement note
Arranged in nine series: 1. Predictions; 2. Articles (Domestic Publications); 3. Articles (Foreign Publications); 4. Ghost Files; 5. Media; 6. Projects; 7. Miscellaneous; 8. Videotapes; 9. Additions August 2018.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Paula Roberts, January 2018. Additions received August 2018 and September 2020
Separated Materials note
Five printed books were separated from Paula Robert's papers and cataloged.
Collins, Patricia. 1996. Psychic New York: a guide to astrologers, tarot readers, psychics, palmists, & numerologists. New York: City & Company. Dee, John, Meric Casaubon, and Edward Kelly. 1974. A true & faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between Dr. John Dee (a mathematician of great fame in Q. Eliz. and King James their reignes) and some spirits: … Glasgow: Antonine Publishing Co. (this volume is number 15 in a printing of 1,000). Flint, Leslie. 1971. Voices in the dark: my life as a medium. London: Macmillan. Harney, Scott. Esoteric guide to New York. New York: Esoteric Guides. Peach, Emily. 1990. The tarot workbook: understanding and using the tarot symbolism. New York, N.Y.: Sterling Pub. Co.
Processing Information note
Processed by Russ Lenox, 2018. Additional materials processed by Melissa Najpaver, September 2020.
- Title
- Guide to the Paula Roberts papers MS-0076
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Russ Lenox
- Date
- 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English
Repository Details
Part of the University of West Georgia Special Collections Repository
Special Collections, Ingram Library
University of West Georgia
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Carrollton GA 30118-2000 United States
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