Psychography.

The Reverend William Stainton Moses (1839-1892), was an English clergyman and Spiritualist. Educated at Bedford School, University College School, London and Exeter College, Oxford, he was ordained as a priest of the Church of England by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in 1870.
He attended his first séance with Miss Lottie Fowler in 1872. Charles Williams and D. D. Home were the next mediums he visited. Five months after his introduction to spiritualism, he had his first experience of levitation. The automatic scripts of Moses began to appear in his books Spirit Teachings and Spirit Identity. The scripts date from 1872 to 1883 and fill twenty-four notebooks. All but one have been preserved by the London Spiritualist Alliance.
Moses published Psychography. A Treatise on One of the Objective Forms of Psychic or Spiritual Phenomena in 1878. In it, he coins the term "psychography" (from psycho- + -graphy) for the spiritist concept of channeling messages from the dead via automatic writing (also known as "independent writing", "direct writing" or "spirit writing".)
In 1881-1882 he helped to found the Society for Psychical Research, with Edmund Rogers and Sir William Barrett. Its early members included F. W. H. Myers, Henry Sidgwick, and Edmund Gurney.
In 1884, he was a founding member, together with Rogers, of the London Spiritualist Alliance, afterwards the College of Psychic Studies.
Under the pen name M.A. Oxon, William Stainton Moses published the following books on spiritualism:
• Spirit Identity (1879)
• Psychography (1882)
• Spirit Teachings (1883)
• Higher Aspects of Spiritualism (1880)