Spirits of Things Past

Spirits of Things Past was the series of fanzines which were the progress reports and program book of Ditto 14, which was also FanHistoriCon 11. It was edited by Leah Zeldes Smith and published by Dick Smith. Issues 1–3 and 5 are online here.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
One	April 2001	12	Includes: "The Prarie Indian Villiage Without Indians" by Bob Tucker, "Toward a New Fanspeak" by Leah Zeldes Smith
Two	August 2001	12	Includes: "Traveling Jiants and Other Neolalia" by Bob Tucker, "Just Another Brick in the Wall..." by Earl Kemp, letters of comment....
Three	September 2001	26	Includes: Con info: directions to the hotel, airport shuttle and other important hotel information, a list of things to bring, "Finding New Fans: Seth Johnson and His Fanzine Clearing House" by Leah Zeldes Smith, "The Campbells are Coming... Tra La?" by Bob Tucker, "How the GRINCH Stole Worldcon" by Bill "The Galactic" Fesselmeyer, Fan Hugo Award Results, "Who's Voting No Award?" by Leah Zeldes Smith, letters of comment....
Four	October 2001	100	The CONTACT! Fanthology: In this sparkling 100-page fanzine, produced by Dick and Leah Zeldes Smith, 72 fans tell the stories of how they found their way to fandom. Contributors comprise a wide variety of fen — BNFs, LKFs, fanzine fans, convention fans, techies, pros, Hugo winners, Worldcon chairfen and more: Forry Ackerman, Harry Andrushak, Judy Bemis, Sheryl Birkhead, Alexander J. L. Bouchard, David Bratman, Cuyler Warnell "Ned" Brooks, Linda Bushyager, Jack L. Chalker, Cy Chauvin, Howard DeVore, Phyllis Eisenstein, Tom Feller, George Flynn, John Foyster, Steve Francis, Sue Francis, Lisa C. Freitag, Beverly Friend, Gordon Garb, Deb Geisler, Janice Gelb, Mike Glicksohn, Mike Glyer, Rob Jackson, Terry Jeeves, Mary Kay Kare, Morris M. Keesan, Earl Kemp, Dave Langford, Roy Lavender, Hope Leibowitz, Eric Lindsay, Rich & Nicki Lynch, Race Mathews, Craig Miller, Murray Moore, Jodie Offutt, Mark Olson, Priscilla Olson, Tony Parker, Bruce Pelz, Andrew I. Porter, Sarah S. Prince, Tullio Proni, Mike Resnick, Yvonne Rousseau, Jim Schumacher, Pat Sims, Roger Sims, Jon Singer, Dick Smith, Leah Zeldes Smith, David "Lensman" Sooby, Jack Speer, Dick Spelman, Jon Stopa, David Thayer, Cheryl "SherryT" Thompson, Gregg Trend, Bob Tucker, R. Laurraine Tutihasi, Tom Veal, William R. Warren, T. K. F. Weisskopf, Jerry Weist, Henry Welch, Peter Weston, Tom Whitmore, Art Widner and Joel Zakem. (Disambiguation: Other Things Named Contact.)
Five	October 2001	20	The Program Book and Other Trivia. Includes: Con info: Program schedule, restaurant guide and map, "Eleven Years Ago..." by Leah Zeldes Smith, "The Secret Handgrip of Fandom" by Ro Nagey, letters of comment....

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2001

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