Archival collections

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This article identifies archival repositories and collections on Theosophy, the Theosophical Movement, and related topics.

Theosophical organizations with archives

• Theosophical Society based in Adyar, Chennai, India..........
• Theosophical Society in America located in Wheaton, Illinois has an Archives Department that maintains the organizational records of the TSA and special collections from Boris de Zirkoff, Walter A. Carrithers, Jr., and others. Contact at mailto:archives@theosophical.org.

Academic institutions

• Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois – McCormick Library of Special Collections and University Archives
  • Arthur H. Nethercot (1895-1981) Papers, Collection Identifier: 11/3/11/8. The biographer of Annie Besant was an NU professor, and his papers retain a small amount of material about her.
• University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois – The Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Regenstein Library.
  • Helen I. Dennis Collection on the Theosophical Society 1897-1943. Helen Dennis, a Chicago Theosophist and E.S. secretary, was a major figure in the 1906-1907 controversy surrounding Charles Webster Leadbeater. This collection has three boxes of correspondence and other papers mostly focused on Leadbeater.
• University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California – Special Research Collections
  • American Religions Collection. Collection Number: ARC Mss 1. Papers of J. Gordon Melton, American religious scholar, author, and encyclopedia editor. Several boxes of unsorted materials from many branches of the Theosophical Movement.

Other links

• Online Archive of California lists 39 collections in California that touch upon Theosophy.