These scraps of paper, which feature John's scribbled notes for Lucy and Fool On The Hill, also contain one or two other intriguing bits and pieces. An interest in the occult was fashionable at that time, part of a general counter-culture trend to seek alternate ways of apprehending the world. Famously, the Great Beast himself, Aleister Crowley, peers out from the cover of Sgt Pepper. Elbert Benjamin was an occultist who started the Church Of Light, and was concerned with matters astrological, extra-sensory-perceptual and Aquarian - all very much in keeping with the spirit of 1967. Lorenzo Niles Fowler was the famous phrenologist, who promoted theories of psychological analysis via skull shape, and produced, amongst many other things, the famous phrenological head seen above. (I wonder if John had one of these - it would have fitted in perfectly in the sunroom). The second piece of paper has rather more obscure scribblings on it - hard to decipher, partly because of John's handwriting. I think there is a town called Aleberg in Sweden, but the rest is unclear - unless anyone knows different.
