"Patience Worth" was the name of a trance control who dictated literary works
through the medium Mrs. John H. (Pearl Lenore Pollard) Curran (1883-1937) of St.
Louis. Several of those works were subsequently published.
Links to information about Patience Worth:
http://www.answers.com/topic/patience-worth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_Worth
Links to archival material:
New York State Historical Documents: www.worldcat.org/oclc/155495348
Washington University - Department of Special Collections: FIND URL