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227: “a grave moment for all of us”: WJ to Lodge, Oct. 4, 1894, Houghton.
227: “The Canterville Ghost”: In Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (London: James Osgood, 1891).
228: “Turn of the Screw”: Sheppard, Henry James, 141—43.
230: “a manifestation of persistent energy”: Proceedings of the Society of Psychical Research 6 (1889): 15—16. Henry James’s knowledge of the psychical research movement is discussed in Epperson, Mind of Edmund Gurney, 116-212; and Beidler, Ghosts, Demons and Henry James.
230: “perhaps among my audience”: Crooke’s presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Oct. 1898, Bristol, England.
230: James Hervey Hyslop: The story of James Hyslop is drawn primarily from his unpublished biography in the archives of the American Society for Psychical Research, and all quotes about his childhood are from those documents. Hyslop describes his early experiments with Mrs. Piper in those documents and in nearly all the books he wrote later in life. Moore, In Search of White Crows (159-65), offers a concise biography; and Berger, Lives and Letters in American Parapsychology (35—65), also provides an excellent portrait of Hyslop.
232: “No scientifically-minded psychologist”: Berkhardt and Bowers, Essays in Psychical Research, 167-79, reprints the letters exchanged by James and Titchener in Science. Titchener to WJ on psychical research, May 28, 1899, following two letters from WJ, May 6, 1899, and May 21, 1899.
234: Rosina Thompson: Thompson’s mediumship is recounted in “On the Trance Phenomena of Mrs. Thompson,” Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 17 (1902): 67-74, an article based on a talk given by Frederick Myers in July 1900. Additional information can be found in Richet, Thirty Years, 284—91; Gauld, Founders of Psychical Research, 268-74; Berger, Lives and Letters in American Parapsychology, 27-29; Podmore, Mediums of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2, 357; and John Piddington, “On the Types of Phenomena Displayed in Mrs. Thompson’s Trance,” Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 18 (1904): 104-307.
235: “My first sittings”: Myers to WJ, Oct. 14, 1899, Houghton.
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239: “He called the response ‘anaphylaxis’”: Richet’s work on anaphylaxis from the Nobel Prize for Medicine presentation speech by Professor C. Sundberg, vice-chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, Dec. 10, 1913. The text can be found at: http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1913/press.html.
240: “So low had this unfortunate woman sunk”: Funk, Widows Mite, 241.
241: “will was recovered”: “Says Will Was Found through Spirit Medium; Mrs. Mellen Tells of Feat of One of the Fox Sisters,” New York Times, Mar. 16, 1905.
241: From India to the Planet Mars: Theodore Flournoy, From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900).
243: “Your book has only one defect”: WF to Flournoy, Jan. 1, 1900, Houghton.
243: “tho with extreme slowness”: WF to Hodgson, Jan. 19, 1900, Houghton.
244: “We are having the D—l’s own time”: WJ to Henry James III, Feb. 23, 1900.
244: “Your mother is extremely rosy”: WJ to Margaret Mary James, Mar. 10, 1900.
244: “My Dear Mother”: Hyslop’s questions home and the answers from his family are archived in his correspondence files at the American Society for Psychical Research, as are the letters between Hyslop and Hodgson.
248: found himself in a fight for survival: Hyslop’s problems at Columbia began when he discussed his sittings with Mrs. Piper in conferences held at Cambridge in June 1899. It was from that meeting that reporters began writing that he planned to scientifically prove immortality. Although he sent denials to both Science and Psychology Review, his fellow faculty members were swayed by his continued public writings, repeating his belief in immortality, in national magazines; see,