Scope and Content Note Read's company, Democrat Publishing and Printing, published in 1926, with the byline Alice Stringfellow, Leslie's Letters to His Mother, a collection of messages received by her parents "through the medium of the planchette in the form known as automatic writing" from their son Leslie. The book, a copy of which is available in the Arkansas Collection, contains facsimiles of Doyle's responses to Read about the possibilities of publishing the letters, including a card in the present...