PUBLIC "-//The Edgar Cayce Foundation//TEXT (US::vavbecf::vavbecf00036::Arthur Robert Smith Collection, 1981-2009)//EN" "vavbecf00036.xml" A Guide to the Arthur Robert Smith Collection, 1981-2009 Smith, Arthur Robert Collection Coll. 36 The Edgar Cayce Foundation 2021 (CC0 1.0)

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This finding aid was produced using a form and manually entry 2021-12-17 Description is in English Arthur Robert Smith Collection, 1981-2009 A Collection in The Edgar Cayce Foundation Coll. 36

The Edgar Cayce Foundation 2021 Jessica Newell The Edgar Cayce Foundation Descriptive Summary The Edgar Cayce Foundation, Virginia Beach, Virginia Arthur Robert Smith Collection, 1981-2009 Coll. 36 0.8 Linear Feet 2 boxes. Materials in this collection are in English. Smith, Arthur Robert Arrangement

Collection is arranged alphabetically by material type.

 Biographical / Historical

Arthur Robert Smith was born on February 13, 1925 in York, Pennsylvania to S. Arthur Smith and Inez Smith. He served in the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. Smith married Yvonne Franklin in 1946, Doris Elizabeth McDowell in 1967, and Jane Dreifus in 1993. He had four children.

He worked as a columnist, correspondent and reporter during his sixty-year career in journalism. He served as the editorial editor for the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia. Smith wrote ten books on political and spiritual topics, including About My Father's Business (1988), on the life of Hugh Lynn Cayce. Smith also founded Venture Inward Magazine for the Association for Research and Enlightenment in 1984.

Smith died in Virginia Beach on November 15, 2016 at the age of 91.

 Preferred Citation

[Identification of item,] [date (if known)]; Arthur Robert Smith Collection, Coll. 36, box_, folder_, The Edgar Cayce Foundation, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

 Scope and Contents

This collection includes correspondence, interview transcripts, notes, and research sources collected by Arthur Robert Smith to write the book entitled About My Father's Business (1988), a biography of Hugh Lynn Cayce (1907-1982).

 Conditions Governing Use

Collection is open for research use.

 Box 1 address [Unity] Edgar Cayce Folder 1:1 undated brochure [Association of National Investigators] Folder 1:2 1926 correspondence [Harmon Bro] Folder 1:3 1982 correspondence Folder 1:4 1989-2009 diary notes [Gladys Davis Turner] Folder 1:5 1934-1935 lectures [Atlantis: Symbol of Man's Forgotten Glory; Turning Point in World History; untitled at Willkie Memorial Hall] Hugh Lynn Cayce Folder 1:6 1950-1970 lectures [Edgar Cayce] Folder 1:7 1930-1933 magazine [The Commonwealth: The Magazine of Virginia] Folder 1:8 August 1965 magazine [Psychic] Folder 1:9 September 1972 manuscript [Atlantis Revisited; Chapter 1] Edgar Evans Cayce Folder 1:10 undated manuscript [Edgar Cayce and the Church] Joseph Fitch Folder 1:11 1971 manuscript [Edgar Cayce's Memoirs] copy Folder 1:12 1932 manuscript [In Search of the Mother Pool: Correspondence between Edgar Cayce and Buddy Wilmott, December 1923-March 1926] Robert Krajenke Folder 1:13 1989 newsclippings Folder 1:14 1910-1945 notes Folder 1:15 undated Box 2 outline and sample chapters [The Dayton Years] Robert Krajenke Folder 2:1 undated publications [A.R.E.] Folder 2:2 1966-1981 report [Research Report on Edgar Cayce for ClearWindow Productions] Robert Krajenke; Stephan Schwartz; A. Robert Smith Folder 2:3 1990 research sources Folder 2:4 1982-1989 research sources [Fay Autry] Folder 2:5 1987 research sources [death of Edgar Cayce] Folder 2:6 1945 reviews [About My Father's Business] Folder 2:7 1988-1989 screenplay [Miracle Man: The Edgar Cayce Story] A. Robert Smith Folder 2:8 1990 script [The Freak] Granville Burgess Folder 2:9 1981 transcript, interviews [Hugh Lynn Cayce] Folder 2:10 1981-1982 transcript, interview [David Kahn] Folder 2:11 1964