Origin & History of Oahspe (Kosmon Voice, 1990)

The Creator's KosmOn Voice 111 Symbol The Wise see free expression as a human need-as great as the shining sun is to the daily planet's growth. Communication radi ates. edited from KV 33,12-79. Volume 13:1 February-March 1990 ISSN: 08824606 Inside:Temple Rites to be giventoAmerica;Origin & History of OAHSPE;Our Earth is MOD Haunted by UFOs; Parenting; Environmental Crises: What should be done?; ROLE ELS; Letters; Brain Static and Imagination; Healing OfficeNews and other columns. ow.behod, whalsvover hen harest or Aeestetneudesl, oranyndutyence hal ruseththee upurard, the same s elly Yeueunte thee huluhadoever thou Mharrst or Seestoreadest hal casteth th dowrnuart,1stheaoueof darhnes NY Calligraphby by Malcolm Schosha, JEHOVIH SKINGDOM, P S28.1213 Kosmon Voice 111 February-March 1990 Page 22 From: OAH SPE. Jim Dennon 2724 Highway 101 North Seaside, Oregon 97138 U.S.A. November 6, 1989 To: Kasandra Kares Erma Jean Lee Ivor Robertshaw Kosmon Unity The Fait hist Journal Kosmon Voice BM KCKP 2324 Suffock Avenue P. 0. Box 664 Kingman, Arizona 86401 London, WCIN 3XX U.S.A. Salt Lake City, Utah 84110-0664 U.S.A. England Dear Editors Kasandra, Erma Jean, and Ivor: Enclosed is my article, "Origin & History of Oahspe". It is identical for each of typeset to the page size of your publication. Just add your own your magazines, page numbers. If you use it, please reproduce it verbatim. The new information incorporated in this article I received from the A merican ScinooccnildueudtceytsefdaorLbPaysnytDcrhp.ircoJaoalfmReseshseeHea.trcfHhry:osmlottphheeoifBrot"ohFekilAoe.foSnS.ePOt.ahRha.nstpeedsu,r(i1na9gn0d8t-hc1oe9r1ir8ne)vs"epsowtnhidigecanhtcieon. JTuhsetrienearNeewlbertotuegrhs-WfirlolmiaAmnsdre(wJoHnoewHloawnldi,ndF)r,anPceerscyNeWwibkrsoelulg,h-NHeloswolnanSdt,andart, Franklin White and others. 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Knowing the history of its past, I remain favorable toward and appreciative of Oahspe, acceptits shortcomings, and am more tolerant of other religions. Sincerely, Kosmon Voice 111 February-March 1990 Page 23 & Origin History of Oahspe by Jim Dennon Most of us want the truth and facts, whatever dentists had lost two or three patients using gas, they are, and appreciate their publication. Fromn which (on page 14) he attributed to "poisonous my Oahspe and Shalam History according to those breath left in the bag from other folks". In 1867, J. B. Newbrough completed his second who were there, (1985), this chronology reveals details about the subject of Lloyd Kinder's open novel, The Fall of Fort Sumpter, or Love and War in American 1860-61, published by Frederic A. Brady, New letter in the Journal, York, based on events between the Republican Faithist September/October1989), and The Old Trunk" article by Anon in the English Kosmon Unity, (June national convention in May, 1860, and Lincoln's 1989). call for 75,000 troops in April, 1861. Criticized in John Ballou Newbrough was born near the novel is a woman who advocates equal Mohicanville, Ohio on June 5, 1828 to William political and sexual rights, and lives with a man Newbrough and Elizabeth Polsley, who were Universalists. John's middle name was after the but retainsher surname. Universalist minister, Hosea Ballou.) When he was On March 20,1872, one of Newbrough's dental patients, Mrs. OShaughnessy, died from 16 in 1844),John began working his way through Cleveland Medical College as a dental assistant to suffocation after he gave her nitrous oxide gas. Dr. F. S. Slosson. In 1848 when gold was Subsequently, Newbrough consulted mediums, discovered in California, he decided to go. He and his Scotsman gold field partner, John Turnbull, recording answersto his questions in Spiritalis, or were successful in California and afterward mined Spirits Interviewed,in 1874. He Dr. Newbrough was a 33rd degree Mason, and an avid student of the world's religions. was particularly fond of the two volume 20-year work gold in Australia also. on the origin of religions and languages, Dr. Newbrough was a writer, poet and author during three decades before publishing Oahspe. Anacalypsis, by GodfreyHiggins (1836), and made His first novel was a 600-pagebook about his experiences in the California Gold Rush: The Lady many notes in the margins. Dr. Newbrough went on a vegetarian diet he of the West, or The Gold Seekers, printed at thought necessary for contacting spirits on higher Cincinnati, Ohio in 1855 (a love story during the planes for a more comprehensivebook. And he adventure). That was also the year he graduated became interested (with others) in helping the from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in 7,000 orphans dying annually in the streets of Cincinnati. New York City. The new manuscript was ready in He next authored a book of poetry, Woman's 1881. Will!versus Man's Wish!, at New York City in 1859. Dr. Newbrough commissionedJohn A. Lant, a Newbrough disapproved of women wearing printer at 207-209 West 41st Street in New York makeup, wearing pants or men's clothing, doing men's work,voting or participating in politics. City. Lant made inked proof pages of over 500 pages that he had typeset for Dr. Newbrough, Dr. Newbrough married Rachel Turnbull, sister which he saved away. Dr. Newbrough informed of his gold field partner, on February 24, 1860 in Lant that after writing nearly a whole workof the Presbyterian Church at Jedburgh, Scotland. Oahspe, he destroyed it and began over again. The Newbroughs settled at 128 West 34th Street in New York City where Dr. Newbrough practiced Therefore, John Lant's Oahspe plates were never dentistry for twenty years. They had three used. About of the proof pages survived children: one died in infancy, their son William a was civil engineer, and their daughter an artist. eighty In 1865, Dr. Newbrough published A Catechism known as The Book of Knowledge, an earlier on Human Teeth, for his patients to read in his version of the Book of Ben in Oahspe. A few other waiting room. He devoted several pages abouthis use of nitrous oxide gas. The patient inhaled a bag Lant pages exist, some of Saphah and one of of six gallons in two to three minutes, while Dr. Sethantes. An associate of Dr. Newbrough's, Newbrough extracted up to 15 teeth. Other Walter Lock wood helped edit the 1882 Oahspe which differed from the 1881 Lant pages version. Afterward, Lockwood received some money toward starting a Faithist orphanageat Anaheim, California. Kosmon Voice 111 February-March 1990 Page 24 InSeptember,1882the already edited version of they named "Camp Hored", the staging place for Shalam as outlined in Oahspe. was Oahspe printed privately by the "Oahspe founding Newbrough wrote an additional manuscript, The Publishing Association", a print shop financed in Government and By-Laws of Faithist Fraternities, part by the temperance author, Elizabeth which accommodated his marital status for Thompson, whose books were also printed there. entering Shalam.Resident members were called His January 27, 1883 letter explaining how he the "inner council"; non-resident financial wroteOahspe on his typewriter during 52weeks in 1881, appeared in both the American Banner of supporters the "outer council". Light, and the English Medium and Daybreak designated July 26, 1884 as the Newbrough (March 2, 1883) spiritualist journals. Dr. "Holy Kosmon Day" (Inspiration XVII1:1). On that Newbrough said he received eleven thousand day, Andrew M. Howland, a wealthy Boston dollars from several anonymous donors, plus an businessmanand heir of Sylvia Ann Howland and additional three thousand dollars from friends to her niece, Hetty Howland Robinson Green (his publish Oahspe. double cousin), visited "Camp Hored" and In the fall of 1882 and spring of 1883, Dr. promised to fund the project as Treasurer of the Outer Council. In Howland's presence thatday, Newbrough organized the Oahspe Lodge of the volunteers covenanted as members of the Faithists in New York City to promote the Shalam Inner Council, with Dr. Newbrough their leader orphanage plan. His associate and assistant was Miss Frances Vandewater,whom he called "Sister (C'Chief). (In 1888, Howland testified that he first Frank". Dr. Newbrough rented an upper flat with read Oahspe in the spring of 1883, after which he six rooms for Miss Vandewater,where they took corresponded with Dr. Newbrough and they first in six orphans(but two died). met at Boston in October, 1883.) Dr. Newbrough sent copies of Oahspe to the With a thousand dollars fromn Andrew editors of the Banner of Light in Boston, and the Howland, Dr. Newbrough and Joseph Grill went Medium and Daybreak in London. James Burns, on a search by train to California to find land for Shalam. On August 25, 1884, a telegram was editor of the Medium and Daybreak, announced received from Dr. Newbrough that he "had Oahspe to his readers on December 1, 1882 and for A discovered Shalam". letter followed that it was a few years advertised and sold the 1882 edition of at Dona Ana, near Las Cruces. Dr. Newbrough Oahspe in England, plus published portions of alone returned to New Mexico with Andrew Oahspe, articles about it, and letters from Oahspe Howland's money and on October 4, 1884 readers. One of the readers and letter writers was purchased the land from John and Josefa James Watson Jr. of Glasgow, Scotland, who Barncastle for $2,250, deeded to Howland. Not joined Newbrough's venture at Shalam, Dorna questioning the southwest desert choice differing 1884. Some years afterward from the timbered location described in Oahspe, Ana, New Mexico,in the volunteers left Pearl River, New York on he married the Shalam school teacher, Nellie October 15th and arrived at Dona Ana, New Jones. A A prospectus entitled Sketch of the Faithists Mexicoon October 19th, 1884. was printed in 1883, which included the Book of The Shalam volunteers were not told of the Zemers not in Oahspe. It publicized the convention financial arrangementbetween Newbrough and of Faithists held in New York on November 24th, Howland for financing Shalam. They assumed 25th and 26th, 1883, the minutes of which were Howland was donating the land for their which community. When Dr. Reuben Garter, a published in the 1884 Gospels of Oahspe, (in and a professional colleague of Newbrough's,arrived on of Discipline first appeared, March 29, 1885, he visited the Dona Ana the Book Courthouse and discovered there was no legal organization and Howland was the sole owner of number of publishers notes and footnotes not in the property. This news upset the volunteers at Oahspe). Shalam, and they asked that the property be Dr. Newbrough fathered a daughter, Justine, bdusoaiurngnghtJaetnrhueaErdyniathm1,eS1w8M8er4est.tofoSrMwieasestt,iVmaea)nn.ddeOwnnaatmAeperrdil(thh1ee4rn, 1884 Newbrough's wife ordered him to leave their conveyed to them asa legal organization. house at 128 West 34th Street in New York City. Subsequently, Shalam was organized as "The Newbrough and Frances Vandewater Sweet First Church of Tae" in December, 1885 when moved to a farm at Pearl River, New York, which members signed Articdes of Incorporation and a Kosmon Voice 111 February-March 1990 Page 25 Deed of Trust drawm up by Andrew Howland at Howland: Jesse M. Ellis, civil case 1050; Arthur L Boston. The property was conveyed to the case 1051; and Harold corporation conditionally: only two vegetarian Whiteside, civil meals daily, not less than five new orphans taken in monthly, no outside help permitted, and upon civil case 1052. Sandburg, Written demand paying Howland all the money he had invested. Signing as incorporators were Elis alleged he was deceived and ipiwmrnmoaejrmstuoarelrneaiaddlttiiybnttgyyahenfadaslsapeaf,umonreuidfntrdtyaai,utmdadieuinolsndehlinovatnoilnonlgaren.gsdeaodudetlncihefdiaeHttfpeuoNrlfieniwcwmbirppriultroeiiusntggyohs,f John B. Newbrough, Harold Sandburg,Gustave charged Percival (Percy) Wiksell, Mattie Patterson, James Newbrough with subjecting himself and his Watson Jr., Joseph Grill, Arthur L. Whiteside, chiOldnreSn etpotgeremabtepre2rs8o,n1a8l87t,yrJaonhnny and and Frances VandewaterSweet servility. William L.Jones, William T. Vance, Mary P. Davis, B. Newbrough Charles B. Hughens, Issac F. Wilson, Frances V. were married at M. Nellie F. Jones, Jesse Shalam.Also during 1887, Dr. Newbrough wrote Sweet, Ellis, William Wells, John P. Wells, John B. Ross, Helena the Book of Gratiyus, Founding of Levitica, in which Tyerrulunel, Sarah Wells, MarthaWells, Catherine he mentioned the members leaving Shalam (1:21) Shaw, Henry S. Tanner and Lydia A. Hutchinson. and the lawsuits (V:6). (Recorded in the Book of Deeds No. 7, pages 101-103, Dona Ana County,N.M.) In November, 1887, Howland sent the Newbroughs and most members to New Orleans Howland sold his wool business in Boston and until the trial was over. The Newbroughs arrived to live in Shalam on February 13, 1886. established a baby receiving home on the corner of Clay and Patton Streets where they lived from But Howland never joined the The Church of Tae. The volunteers thought would become a 1887 until 1890. he covenanted member like themselves, and donate the land, but he did not. Instead of the The trial was postponed several times because cooperative project they volunteered for, they Dr. Newbrough was not present, but was finally found themselves legallyand financiallyobligated scheduled to convene on May 3, 1888 anyway.On to Howland. According to court testimony, there one April 29, 1888 the member at were disagreements about allowing mistresses in remaining the community, and Dr. Newbrough spanking member'schildren without parental consent. Shalam, Dr. Henry S. Tanner, left on the Disenchanted and dissatisifed, the members northbound train. Legally the property owner but not a member, Andrew Howland alone stood trial, held a meeting on March 12, 1886 and sent a which took place in Las Cruces, New Mexico on petition to Dr. Newbrough asking him to give them the Fraternal government he had promised. May 3, 4 and.5, 1888. On May 5, 1888 the jury That same day, Howland revoked the Deed of returned a guilty verdict and assessed damages of Trust to take the property back from the $1500. (On appeal the verdict was set aside on corporation and demanded payment of $37,282.18 August 19, 1891. New Mexico Supreme Court from the members. The board of trustees John Case386, Report of 1896, pages 182-191.) Newbrough, Frances Sweet, Herry Tanner, Joseph Grill and Jesse Ellis) returned the property to Still in Nev Orleans during 1889, Dr. Howland on March 13, 1886. Newbrough published a monthly magazine called On March 15, 1886, Andrew Howland issued The Castaway publicizing the Shalam orphanage, written eviction orders tofive members who were seeking babies and volunteers. Nine issues were published from March to and including forced to leave. Subsequently, all members November, 1889. In the July 1889 issue, Newbrough wrote: "We have fifty-eight years yet departed except Dr. Newbrough, Mrs. Sweet, ahead Iby 1947] to get ready in. At or before that Joseph Grill, Mattie Patterson and Henry Tanner. time all the present governments, religions, and all New volunteers weresought. monied monopolies are to be overthrown and to On July 9, 1886, Dr. Newbrough sued for go out of existence." divorce from Rachel Turnbull, (Dona Ana County, The typewritten Oahspe manuscript (withpages New Mexicocivil case No. 954). The divorce was plates) was kept in an oak box at of pencil drawn Andrew Howland at Shalam.While was alone granted on October 6,1886. Shalam from 1888 to 1890, he made revision notes On January 22, 1887 three of the former in an 1882 Oahspe subsequently used by the members sued Dr. Newbrough and Andrew Boston printer to publish the 1891 second edition. Kosmon Voice 111 February-March 1990 Page 26 "Not in O." was a recurring note in the revisions, inner council was composed of Louis W. Van thought to mean "Not in Original manuscript." Dyke (C'Chief), Mary A. (Secretary),Fred However, following one such note was "let this Elliott stand as it is". For years, the 1882 Oahspe with A. Sutor, MinnieE. Wheeler, Albert A. and Grace Howland's revision notes was in storage at El A. Bass, and George Clarke Rose. Chief and Paso, Texas. In 1972 it was donated to the New Secretary of the Outer Council was Nelson K. Standart, an optician at 255 Woodward Avenue, Mexico State University Library, Rio Grande Detroit, Michigan. Also a member of the outer Collections, at Las Cruces, New Mexico. council was the first Oahspe printer,John A. Lant, Howland's revision notes appearclose to, if not then residing at 4265 Easton Avenue, St. Louis, the same as the handwriting in the 1882 Oahspe Missouri. In 1909 at the request of the American plates. (Research requiring a handwriting expert.) Society for Psychical Research investigating the From 1881 until Newbrough died, Oahspe origin of Oahspe, Nelson Standart recorded the manuscripts were written and revised. He died of influenza (la grippe) on April 22, 1891 before the information aboutthe origin of Oahspe he received second edition of Oahspe was printed in Boston, and before the New Mexico Supreme Court from Lant (a copy of which I obtained from Dr. Newbrough's grand nephew in 1963). Dr. James reversed the judgment of the District Court on Hyslop of the Society asked Nelson Standart to August 19, 1891. send all of the Lant proof sheets, but Standart Andrew Howland married Frances Vandewater refused to let them out of his organization's Newbrough at Shalam on June 25, 1893. (He had archives. A few days after mailing the Lant been married before and had a daughter in Boston, May Howland Leroy.) Between 1891 and information, he requested those notes back. But 1907, Howland lost the rest of his fortune trying to Hyslopwas permitted to keep a photograph of Dr. implementLevitica. They adopted a few orphans; Newbrough and the Lant proof sheet most were sent elsewhere before they left Shalam on November 30,1907. They visited Long Beach, accompanyingthe notes. California until June 25, 1908 then moved to El Paso, Texas where they resided at 1118 Rio The Brotherhood of Light Society first took in Grande and 1019 East Rio Grande Street. In 1909, orphans on a farm near Denver, and later moved to Arboles, Arhuleta County, Colorado (on the Southern Ute InnudimabnerReosferyveaatriso.nW).hTehnesoormpehoafntahgee operated for a orphans were 14 years old, George Rose took another printing of Oahspe was done under them on a tour of Los Angeles, and recorded their copyright by Newbrough's daughter, Justine B. trip activities in a log. Newbrough. Although the Howlands continued In October, 1909, Standart said his organization to sell Oahspe from their home, they had switched had between500 and 600 of the Lant proof sheets, their faith to New Thought (Unity) before plus a considerable number of duplicates, and Howland died on Apil 10, 1917, and his wife on some of the paper matrices used to cast the metal January 3,1922. plates as well. He had them in his own possession In 1898, Franklin P. White, a former participant for a number of years, then sent them to their in Howland's Levitica community,returned home headquarters at Arboles, Colorado. Standart and founded a Denver Fraternity. His Clara mailed one duplicate proof sheet from the Book of wife, Sethantes to the American Society for Psychical E. White, was a medium and claimed to restore Oahspe to its true, unrevised form which they Research, and another to J. Nelson Jones, author of published under the title, Romance the Red Star, Thaumat-Oahspe, in Australia. Years later, Wing of Anderson acquired about 80 (duplicates?) of the Lant proof sheets, now known as The Book of A Biography of the Earth. It included a chapter they Knowledge,plus some pages of the original Book of Saphah not in Oahspe. Where the collection of said was omitted from Oahspe. Although over 500 proof sheets and paper matrices are, if they survived, is yet unknown (another research "corrected" and renamed, their version violated the copyright of Oahspe sold by the Howlands. project). (Dorothy Wills of our research group located the The Lant proofs version of Oahspe preceded the book in a Colorado library and obtained a typewritten manuscript Howland used to photocopy which we donated to the Nev Mexico compare the 1882 Oahspe with while revising it for State University Library historical archives in the 1891 edition. This confirms Lant's information memory of Harry O. Hilton.) On April 5, 1902, The Brotherhood of Light Society" was organized in Denver, Colorado. The Kosmon Voice 111 February-March 1990 Page 27 Dr. Newbrough abandoned an earlier wrote to Andrew Howland requesting that for a revised one which became the information about the origin of Oahspe for an m1Pwsua8aoc8nnrhu2disacecerdsd"iiGptdthiiwfoafonerdrr.eednMmftsloaayrrn, kGyswoadopasf.rnedtcSheuauedbcsisLnektaginnmtotuotwtrhpliereoeon1do"8gfoP8sfae2ndEivnvcege"rlrisisnwesishoonrtafdrhoosreef investigation by Dr. James H. Hyslop of the American Society for Psychical Research. Howland had Justine B. Newbrough write the Society directly, promising her full cooperation. But instead, she deliberately burned her fathers publisher's Ben. Not only were words substituted paintings (1960 interview). The half-truth cover was changed, and the Book of Oahspe, information story told to Percy Wiksell, K. D. Stoes and others was that the paintings and Oahspe manuscript had in the 1882 been crated in their El Paso home basement for material was omitted. of Faithists in London, The Confraternity the 1891 edition of shipment to the American Society for Psychical Research in New York City, when a flash flood England began publishing and with English came down from nearby Mount Franklin and from smaller plates Oahspe of words like colour, in 1909 or 1910. destroyed them all, so they were burned as spelling In 1934, Wing Anderson purchased the Oahspe and 2,700 unbound rubbish. But Jone Howlind (Justine Newbrough) said in 1960 she destroyed them by fire on copyright, printing plates, daughter, and edition. As new purpose (which prevented the A.S.P.R. from books from Dr. Newbrough's the blue covered 1891 published copyright, Anderson warned examiningthe originals). Between1909 and 1917, owner of the Oahspe Mrs. Howland and Justine Newbrough answered Franklin White to stop selling Romance of the Red letters promising to cooperate with the A.S.P.R. Star. investigation, but never did. JaunsAdtnihdnaeedrNtsehorwnebercohheuilglpdher,denw,hdoNivemowarbrcrreidoeudgahnW'd.scBh.adWnaigluelgidhathmeesrr A subsequenteffort by an adopted Howland name to Jone Howlind) relocate to Southern daughter to replace the typewritten manuscript California in 1938. For a time, he employed the indicates she may have participated in its deliberate destruction. The children at Shalam family in his book selling business. The were given Oahspe names. Justine relationship became strained, however, because Newbrough-Howland'swas Etisyai. Her adopted Jone wanted no contact with readers of Oahspe. sister's name was Nin'ya (Nin). Nin was born When Anderson interviewed her on March 20, Louise Howard on October 15, 1888 in New 1960 about Oahspe and Shalam history, she said Orleans, and married Alfred Carpenter, an El Paso plumber, on June 2, 1915. In an effort to that was the last she would ever talk to him about replicate the original, she laboriously typed an it. Oahspe manuscript and made pencil drawings of the plates. One page was a sample of the Based on Newbrough's forecast of world typewriting. It was intended to pass as the conditions in 1947, Wing Anderson wrote and original manuscript, and it did. Her manuscript successfully marketed a series of prophecybooks was donated to the Centennial Museum of the during the World War II years. He established his Texas Western College (which is now the Essenes of Kosmon community at North Salt Lake University of Texas at El Paso) in 1949 by Louise in 1944. Utah would not permit the organization to adopt children, so he moved the project to (Howard?)Cantrell. The museum acquisitionwas Colorado, but the Utah problem followed them. Wing and Lillian Anderson personally adopted reported in the El Paso Herald on July 28, 1950 as two boys, Karl and Thor. He disbanded his being the genuine original Oahspe manuscript. organization in 1957. The university transferred the manuscript from In 1960, Ray Palmer (Amherst Press) began the museum to their library on September 21, printing the green covered facsimiles of the 1882 1972, but the college couldn't find it for Ray Oahspe edition, which are still sold. After Wing Palmer in 1974. Dorothy Wills continued Palmer's Anderson died at Fallon, Nevada in 1970, his 1891 quest for the manuscript in 1981. She founded our edition of Oahspe went out of print, but the Oahspe Research Group (Dorothy Wills, Linda We Blazer, Jim Dennon). asked the UTEP library English version of the 1891 edition is still staff to keep looking. They moved into a new available. What happened to the typewritten library building. But the manuscript eluded really discovery until it turned up in a box during Oahspe manuscript? In 1909, Nelson Standart Kosmon Voice 111 February-March 1990 Page 28 inventory on February 5, 1987. After all our effort References and wait, it was Nin Carpenter's typewriting; not A Sketch the Faithists including the Book of Zemers Newbrough's original manuscript. Dispite the of disappointing outcome, our group added to the knowledge of Oahspe and Shalam history by (1883), and the 1882 Oahspe containing revision notes by locating records and photographs and New (1890), contributing them to the New Mexico State Andrew Howland Mexico State University Library, Rio Grande Historical University Library, Rio Grande Collections, Las Cruces, N.M. John A. Lant information, notes by Nelson K. Standart Collections. (1909), Detroit, Michigan. (Confirmed by Lant's handwritten notes in Newbrough's Woman's Wish poetry Dr. James H. Hyslop of the American Society book, University of Virginia.) for Psychical Research was favorably inclined toward Dr. Newbrough and Oahspe. If Nelson Oahspe Research File (1908-1918), American Society for Standart, Andrew Howland, Frances New Psychical Research, Inc., Newbrough-Howland and Justine B. Newbrough York, N.Y. had cooperated with him, the over 500 John A. Lant proof sheets and the original typewritten Oahspe manuscript typewritten by Mrs. Alfred J. of Texas at El Paso Oahspe manuscript, as well as Dr. Newbrough's (Louise) Carpenter, (1929), University paintings would all be safe in the A.S.P.R. archives Library, Special Collections, El Paso, Texas. today. Tape recorded interview of Dr. Newbrough's daughter by Wing Anderson (March 20, 1960), Southgate, California. The saying, "Don't throw the baby out with old the bathwater" is worth taking into account John Ballou Newbrough and the Oahspe Bible, by Daniel relative to Oahspe and its history. Everything in Nathan Simundson (1972), Department of History the Universe proves the Great Spirit. In our short University of New Mexico,303 pages. ride on this planet we are all wondering about the same things; particularly about what happens to The Oahspe Story (1965), Dr. Neuwbrough and Oahspe (1975), and More of Oahspe us after death. (a compilation of pre- and post-publication manuscripts, -Jim Dennon 1983), by Jim Dennon. Californians getting together Ken Greer.. CharlesWalker... Martin Fritz .. ... .Joan Greer... Mary Lou andTllmanBrown LA. These persons have gotten together for Thanksgi ving and other meals. They hope to meet other Californians in the to begin a group, or participate in some of the projects begun by this one. or nearby area who would like