Evelyn Millicent Horton Collection, 1932-1973

Access and use

Location of collection:
Edgar Cayce Foundation
Edgar Cayce Foundation
215 S. 67th Street
Virginia Beach, VA 23451
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Jessica Newell
Phone: (757) 457-7204
Terms of access:

Collection is open for research use.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item,] [date (if known)]; Evelyn Millicent Horton Collection, Coll. 34, box_, folder_, The Edgar Cayce Foundation, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
0.4 Linear Feet 1 box.
Creator:
Horton, Evelyn Millicent
Language:
Materials in this collection are in English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item,] [date (if known)]; Evelyn Millicent Horton Collection, Coll. 34, box_, folder_, The Edgar Cayce Foundation, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection includes Evelyn Millicent Horton's correspondence and personal collection of publications related to her work with the American Psychical Institute and the Association for Research and Enlightenment.

Biographical / historical:

Evelyn Millicent Horton was born on March 12, 1899 in New York City to James Madison Horton and Ida Lewis Collier Horton. She worked as a lab statistician, a war industry worker during the First World War, and conducted research at the American Psychical Institute with Dr. Hereward Carrington.

Horton received readings from Edgar Cayce and remained friends with the Cayce family. She worked briefly at the Association for Research and Enlightenment, where she wrote a pamphlet on Egypt-related readings and edited the A.R.E. Bulletin.

She died on January 30, 1984 in Pinellas, Florida at the age of 84.

Custodial history:

Collection originally part of the A.R.E. New York Center record series (coll. 14).

Arrangement:

Collection arranged alphabetically by material type.