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C. (Charles) Hammond
d. 1859
A mid-19th-century religious writer who moved from Universalist ministry into the new world of Spiritualism, he wrote vivid accounts of life beyond death. His best-known books imagine conversations with spirits and explore how souls continue to grow after earthly life.
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About the author
Charles Hammond, usually listed in library records as C. Hammond and dated approximately 1805–1859, was an American religious writer associated with the early Spiritualist movement. His best-known work, Light from the Spirit World (1852), presents a series of visions and spirit communications, including a striking imagined pilgrimage involving Thomas Paine.
Sources from booksellers and religious history archives describe him as a Universalist minister in New York who later embraced Spiritualism. That shift placed him among the early writers trying to explain spirit communication, the afterlife, and moral progress in simple, accessible language for a growing 19th-century audience.
Very little biographical detail about his personal life appears to be firmly documented in the sources readily available online. What does stand out is his place in a moment when American religion was changing quickly, and readers were eager for books that blended faith, debate, and supernatural experience.