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has tirelessly traced relations among Ouija’s investors. Orlando and historian John B. Buescher provided references to the “lost link” article from the New York Daily Tribune. Fuld is quoted from “William Fuld Made $1,000,000 on Ouija but Has No Faith in It,” Baltimore Sun, 7/4/20. Thomas Mann is quoted from The Perfect Medium by Clément Chéroux (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005). The recollections about Truman Capote and about Merrill and Jackson’s sexual relations are from Alison Lurie’s Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson (Viking, 2001). Merrill is quoted from James Merrill by Judith Moffett (Columbia University Press, 1984) and “The Channeled Myths of James Merrill” by John Chambers, The Anomalist (summer 1997).

Chapter Four: The Science of Right Thinking

The recollections of Florence Wattles appear in a letter that publisher Elizabeth Towne included in a reprint edition of Wallace D. Wattles’s The Science of Being Great (1911), which Towne retitled How to Be a Genius. Thanks to Tony Mase for help tracking down the source. Emerson’s 1841 quote is from “Spiritual Laws.” John B. Anderson is quoted from New Thought, Its Lights and Shadows (Sherman, French & Company, 1911). Elbert Hubbard is quoted from Stefan Kanfer’s “Love and Glory in East Aurory,” City Journal (spring 2007). The career of Ralph Waldo Trine is explored in The Positive Thinkers by Donald Meyer (Pantheon, 1965, 1980, 1988) and History and Philosophy of Metaphysical Movements in America by J. Stillson Judah (The Westminster Press, 1967). Articles on Wattles include the following from the Fort Wayne Sentinel: “Leaves the Methodists,” 6/27/00; “News Paragraphs,” 6/13/08; “Totals on District Vote,” 11/15/08; “Trouble at Elwood,” 7/12/09; and “Indiana Socialist Dies,” 2/8/11. Also, “Hoosier Writer Is Dead,” Indianapolis Star, 2/9/11. Florence Wattles appears in “Says Even Dead Voted in Recent Elwood Election,” 1/29/11, Indianapolis Star; and “Woman Socialist Speaks to Kendallville Audience,” 7/12/11, Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette.

Quimby’s initial encounter with Mesmerism is variously attributed to his attendance at lectures by Poyen and Collyer; lecture dates of 1836 and 1838 are cited, as are different Maine locales. The Quimby Manuscripts, edited by Horatio Dresser (Crowell, 1921), places Quimby at a Belfast, Maine, lecture in 1838 but names no lecturer. The same author cites Collyer as the speaker in his History of the New Thought Movement (Crowell, 1919). Poyen had probably left America by that time, as noted by Eric T. Carlson in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Science (April 1960). Poyen had appeared in Bangor, Maine, earlier, and the likelihood is that both influences—Poyen’s 1836 demonstration and Collyer’s 1838 lecture—aroused Quimby’s interest. Further details on Collyer’s career appear in Abnormal Hypnotic Phenomena, Vol. 4: The United States of America, by Allan Angoff, edited by Eric Dingwall (J. & A. Churchill, 1968). Quotes by Quimby are taken from The Quimby Manuscripts. Warren Felt Evans’s and Mary Baker Eddy’s relations with Quimby are variously described in: History and Philosophy of Metaphysical Movements in America by J. Stillson Judah (The Westminster Press, 1967), Each Mind a Kingdom by Beryl Satter (University of California Press, 1999), Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Trial by Robert Peel (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971), and A Republic of Mind and Spirit by Catherine L. Albanese (Yale University Press, 2007). Eddy’s eulogy of Quimby appears in The True History of Mental Science by Julius A. Dresser (Alfred Mudge & Son, 1887). Her comment about the “illiterate” Quimby is from the June 1887 Christian Science Journal. Eddy’s relationship with Emma Curtis Hopkins is described in Satter (1999).

Sources on Ernest Holmes include Open at the Top by Neal Vahle (Open View Press, 1993) and Ernest Holmes: His Life and Times by Fenwicke L. Holmes (Dodd, Mead, 1970). Norman Vincent Peale discusses Holmes in “The Pathway to Positive Thinking” by Elaine St. Johns, Science of Mind magazine (June 1987).

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