{"id":5324,"date":"2015-01-22T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2015-01-15T12:30:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T17:30:21","slug":"will-the-real-lewis-de-claremont-please-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2015\/01\/22\/will-the-real-lewis-de-claremont-please-stand-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the real Lewis de Claremont please stand up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired\u00a0Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lewis de Claremont is credited as the author on several occult books from the early 20th-century including Legends of Incense, Herbs, and Oils.<\/em>\u00a0 The image of an “artist’s conception of Lewis de Claremont in tunic and turban with Spirit Guide” appeared as the frontispiece in\u00a0his books. \u00a0Henri Gamache another author from that time\u00a0published The Magic of Herbs<\/em>, Protection Against Evil and Harm<\/em>, and The Master Key to Occult Secrets. \u00a0<\/em>What is interesting is that apparently neither one of these men were real, both were supposedly a\u00a0nom de plume\u00a0<\/em>of a man named Young. \u00a0The story goes that Young turned over the copyright and publication rights to Joseph Kay, of Dorne Publishing, to clear up a debt.<\/p>\n

What makes it more confusing is that at one point\u00a0Joseph Kay under the name of Joseph Spitalnick\u00a0claimed authorship<\/span>, but the fact that some of the De Claremont books were previously published under a different house clearly disproves his claim. \u00a0There is still yet\u00a0another theory that has been posited\u00a0which comes from\u00a0Ed Kay, son of Joseph, who says that Henri Gamache was actually a college educated young Jewish woman who worked for Joseph and wrote books for him. \u00a0Regardless of who authored this text it says volumes about popular interest in the early 20th-century.<\/p>\n

Legends of Incense, Herbs, and Oils<\/em>\u00a0instructs the layperson on certain herbs and oils and how they are related to magic and the occult. \u00a0Of course the author helpfully directs the reader on where they can purchase these items or recommends that they consult another one of his books for clarification or proper usage. \u00a0Capitalism at work!<\/p>\n

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Legends<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>of<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>incense<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>herb<\/span>\u00a0&\u00a0<\/span>oil<\/span><\/a>\u00a0magic<\/a>\u00a0by Lewis de Claremont.<\/span>\u00a0[New York] : Dorene Pub. Co., c1938 can be found in Widener’s collection. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to Alison Harris, Santo Domingo Project Manager, for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired\u00a0Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Lewis de Claremont is credited as the author on several occult books from the early 20th-century including Legends of Incense, Herbs, and Oils.\u00a0 The image of an “artist’s conception of Lewis de Claremont in tunic and turban […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72741],"tags":[3727,2847,131696,131697,131693,64777,72720,131694,131692,3265,131698],"class_list":["post-5324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-widener-library","tag-20th-century","tag-america","tag-and-oils","tag-dorne-publishing","tag-henri-gamache","tag-herbs","tag-julio-mario-santo-domingo-collection","tag-legends-of-incense","tag-lewis-de-claremont","tag-magic","tag-occult-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-1nS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5324"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5511,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions\/5511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}