Talk:Anice Terhune

Page should include more on Anice's spiritualism which was a noteworthy part of her later life

This came to my attention while sorting through my mother's old papers. At the end of 1957 / beginning of 1958, when she was 13 years old, my mother Jinx McCombs had a school project in which she wrote to a school class around the same age in the place where Albert Payson Terhune's books are mostly set, Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. The teacher there read the letter to the English class and students wrote back.

In her second letter to my mother (apparently in response to a reply from my mother), February 12, 1958, a girl named Connie mentions that Mrs. Terhune still lives at the same house and writes, "She sets a place for him at the table, she believes she can talk to the dead. Each year she writes a Christmas Carol for the town and we sing it in school." The annual song was mentioned by another child who wrote back.

Confirmation of Anice Potter Terhune's spiritualism isn't hard to find. The book Across the Line, written by her three years after he died around some notes of his, has a back blurb beginning, "I offer this book at my husband's insistent request; to give comfort and hope to the hopeless, new sight to the grief-blinded..." MetaGrrrl (talk) 17:11, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

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I moved the article from Anice Potter Terhune to muck more widely used name Anice Terhune, per WP:COMMONNAME. The middle name name "Potter" is almost never used in prose, and although "née Potter" is sometimes added in encyclopedias, this appears to be an erroneous misreading of the names of her parents: "John Potter and Elizabeth Morris Olmstead Stockton" means "John Potter Stockton and his wife Elizabeth Morris Olmstead Stockton" (her grandfather was John Potter Stockton Sr.). --Animalparty! (talk) 03:43, 6 June 2026 (UTC)