The link below will take you to an image of a booklet published in 1962 by the San Antonio, Texas Public Library called THE ESSENCE OF CREATIVE WRITING. The booklet consists of "Letters to A Young Aspiring Writer", sent by Ray Bradbury to a student at Rice University. It is not known how many copies of this booklet were issued, but there cannot have been that many as it is very scarce:

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One of Ray Bradbury's more obscure and hard-to-find short stories is "The Hour of Ghosts", from 1969. Why is it so scarce? The reason is that it originally appeared as an AT&T ad! The story/advertisement, which dealt with three-dimensional holograms, originally appeared in two magazines of which I am aware: the October 25, 1969 issue of SATURDAY REVIEW, and the December 1969 issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. While the story later appeared in the Peter Haining-edited anthology GHOST TOUR (from U.K. publisher William Kimber in 1984), that really did not help the story become more well known as that collection is one of Mr. Haining rarest books. To view the advertisement from its magazine appearance, click on the link below:

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Thanks. Does the copyright belong to the Bradbury estate or AT&T?

Per the Peter Haining anthology, the story was copyrighted by Ray Bradbury in 1969.

Thanks.