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146: “fury of this hunt after ghosts”: George Croom Robertson, editor of Mind, to WJ, Sept. 9, 1888, Houghton.
146: “whispers ... about his marriage”: Gauld, Founders of Psychical Research, touches briefly on the sympathy for Kate Gurney’s loneliness; the problems of the marriage are more thoroughly discussed in Sheppard, Henry James (123-31), including her refusal to donate to memorial fund, and encounter with Henry James Jr. in Paris.
147: Charles Richet: Richet’s personality described in Lodge, Past Years, 291-92.
147: French researchers approached hypnosis: French scientists’ work with hypnotism is reviewed in Inglis, Natural and Supernatural, 338—53, and Epperson, Mind of Edmund Gurney, 65-67; it is also covered well by Richet himself: Charles Richet, Thirty Years of Psychical Research (New York: Macmillan, 1923), 120-30.
149: a temperamental Italian peasant woman: Eusapia Palladino appears in every history of spiritualism published. For biographies contemporary to her time, I used Hereward Carrington, Eusapia Palladino and her Phenomena (New York: B. W. Dodge, 1909); and Theodore Flournoy, Spiritism and Psychology (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1911), 242-60.
150: Maggie Fox Kane sold a confession: Maggie Fox Kane’s confession from Funk, Widow’s Mite, 240—42; “Mrs. Margaret Fox-Kane’s Confession,” New York World, Oct. 21, 1888; Rinn, Sixty Years, 55-56; 76-80, discusses journalist’s planned book.
151: Census of Hallucinations: International Congress of Experimental Psychology: Instructions to the Person Undertaking to Collect Answers to the Question on the Other Side (1889), from the archives of the American Society for Psychical Research; letter from William James seeking publicity for the census, “To the Editor of the American Journal for Psychology,” American Journal of Psychology 3 (Apr. 3, 1890): 292.
152: “deplorably hasty”: Myers, letter to James on maintaining the American branch of the Society for Psychical Research, Dec. 12, 1888, Houghton.
152: Miss Mary A. T. Sitting: Hodgson, “Certain Phenomena of Trance,” 67-167.
154: “I am quite thick now with Sidgwick”: WJ to his wife, Aug. 7, 1889, Houghton.
155: “A curious chapter”: Richet, Thirty Years, 26-27. On the instability of mediums, see also Funk, Widow’s Mite, 105-111; and Barrett, Threshold of the Unseen, 123-24.
156: “I’m so cold”: Hodgson, “Certain Phenomena of Trance,” 92—95.
7. The Principles of Psychology
157: the Metaphysical Society: R. H. Hutton, “The Metaphysical Society: A Reminiscence” The Nineteenth Century (1885) posted on The Huxley File website, Created by Charles Blinderman, Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Biology, and David Joyce, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clark University http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/.
158: Christianity and Agnosticism: Huxley’s essay “Agnosticism” first appeared in The Nineteenth Century in Feb. 1889 and was reprinted in a collection of essays on the subject, Christianity and Agnosticism (London: D. Appleton, 1889).
159: “Mrs. Piper ... flatly refused”: For Mrs. Piper’s refusal and eventual agreement and Myers’s letter, see Piper, Life and Work, 47-53.
160: “Don’t ky, Alta”: Ibid., 50.
161: “Why Mrs. Piper”: Ibid., 53
163: fanatical preparations: For the sittings with Myers and Lodge and descriptions of house and hospitality, see ibid., 54—61; Oliver Lodge, The Survival of Man (London: Methuen, 1909), 458-59; Funk, Widow’s Mite, 240-42; and Barrett, Threshold of the Unseen, 26-30.
167: “I am filled with confusion”: Shepard, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 1:522. For background on Eusapia Palladino, see also Carrington, Eusapia Palladino; and Flournoy, Spiritism and Psychology, 242-60.
168: The Principles of Psychology: William James, The Principles of Psychology (Boston: Henry Holt, 1890).
168: “No one ... ever had a simple sensation”: Ibid., 1:224-46.
168: “Objects of rage, love”: Ibid., 2:449.
169: “a man has as many social selves”: Ibid., 1:300-302.
169: “Dear Bill”: Holmes to WJ, Nov. 10, 1890, Houghton.
170: “your magnificent book”: