A Guide to the Robert Adriance Collection, 1949-2002 Adriance, Robert Collection Coll. 33

A Guide to the Robert Adriance Collection, 1949-2002

A Collection in
The Edgar Cayce Foundation
Collection Number Coll. 33

The Edgar Cayce Foundation

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Processed by: Jessica Newell

Repository

The Edgar Cayce Foundation, Virginia Beach, Virginia

Collection Number

Coll. 33

Title

Robert Adriance Collection, 1949-2002

Physical Characteristics

0.8 Linear Feet 2 boxes.

Creator

Adriance, Robert

Language

Materials in this collection are in English .

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Use

Collection is open for research use.

Custodial History

Robert Adriance donated these materials to the Edgar Cayce Foundation in two installments, the first in 1985 and the second in 2000.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item,] [date (if known)]; Robert Adriance Collection, Coll. 33, box_, folder_, The Edgar Cayce Foundation, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Robert Allan Adriance was born in New York City on October 22, 1917 to Thomas F. Adriance and Grace Underwood Adriance. He served as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army during the Second World War. He married Isabel Yandalou Long on January 17, 1942 in Buena Vista, Virginia. They had three children. Adriance graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in business. He served as vice-president of the United Services Life Insurance Company and helped found the Washington Society of Stock Analysts. He cofounded the Texas franchise of Budget Rent-A-Car with friend and fellow A.R.E. member Wilfred Sechrist in 1961. Robert, Isabel and their children moved to Virginia Beach in 1956 because of Robert's interest in Edgar Cayce's work. He volunteered his business skills for the Association for Research and Enlightenment and donated the collateral to purchase the former Cayce Hospital property. Adriance helped organize the A.R.E. Press and served on the boards of the A.R.E., the Edgar Cayce Foundation, and Atlantic University (having tracked down the University's missing charter). He served as president of both the A.R.E. and the E.C.F. Adriance was a key supporter of E.C.F. research initiatives, including archaeological projects at Bimini in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and at the Sphinx in Egypt. He died on September 12, 2002 in Virginia Beach at the age of 84.

Adriance, Robert
Adriance, Robert

Container List

Box 1

Folder 1:1
Comments on Work Readings
Adriance, Robert1960-1968
Folder 1:2
correspondence [A.R.E. Board of Trustees]
1949-1971
Folder 1:3
correspondence [A.R.E.; E.C.F.]
1969-1972
Folder 1:4
correspondence [Edgar Cayce Memorial Library]
1969
Folder 1:5
correspondence [Edgar Cayce relatives in Selma, Alabama]
1965
Folder 1:6
correspondence and research [health topics]
1960-1976
Folder 1:7
correspondence [research and spiritual foundations]
1961-1964
Folder 1:8
Director of Education job description
undated
Folder 1:9
Insight on Old Testament Passages as Edgar Cayce Saw Them
Adriance, Robertundated
Folder 1:10
Israel trip materials
1966-1967
Folder 1:11
minutes [A.R.E. departmental staff meetings]
1970-1971
Folder 1:12
outline of basic dream material
undated
Folder 1:13
readings extracts
1962
Folder 1:14
report [Bimini research]
1957
Folder 1:15
reports [Field activities]
1969-1970
Folder 1:16
report [The Effects of Special Intervention Upon the Psychological Functioning of Children]
A.R.E. Clinicundated
Folder 1:17
Venture Inward Magazine
November-December 2002

Box 2

Folder 2:1
Edgar Cayce Readings on A Search for God, Book I
undated
Folder 2:2
Edgar Cayce Readings on A Search for God, Book II
undated