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248: “It would be pretty absurd”: Hodgson’s letter to Hyslop, Feb. 23, 1900. This and all correspondence that I cite comes from unpublished letters between Hyslop and Hodgson, ASPR.
249: “Life is very strange now”: Sidgwick to Myers, May 24, 1900, in Sidgwick and Sidgwick, Henry Sidgwick, 587.
250: “Dear Mrs. Sidgwick”: WJ to Nora Sidgwick, Sept. 1, 1900, Houghton.
250: “My brain power”: WJ to Myers, Dec. 6, 1900.
251: “his subliminal is”: WJ to John Piddington, Jan. 5, 1901.
251: “That intolerable babbler”: WJ to Frances Morse, Jan. 4, 1901.
251: “I think of you”: WJ to Myers, Dec. 8, 1901.
252: “His serenity”: WJ to Nora Sidgwick, Jan. 20, 1901, Houghton.
252: “Is there going to be any difficulty”: For the A control and other secrets, see WJ to Lodge, Mar. 16, 1901; reply from Lodge, Mar. 19, 1901. Evie Myers response, including demands for destruction of documents, summarized in Berger, Lives and Letters in American Parapsychology, 30. Letters from Evie to WJ, Mar. 24, 1902, and Apr. 17, 1902, Houghton. A version with all references to Annie Marshall deleted was published in 1904 as Fragments of Prose and Poetry; the argument, though, continued for years. In the summer of 1906, James was still writing to Evie Myers, refusing to destroy letters and documents or to return all copies of the unabridged autobiography.
254: “being absolutely fearless”: Lodge to WJ, Mar. 19, 1901.
255: “I poured experimental telepathy”: Hyslop correspondence with Hodgson, July, 7, 1900, ASPR.
257: his 1902 book: William James, Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature (New York: Longman, Green, 1902).
258: “Only on 426 days of my life”: Myers, Fragments of Inner Life.
260: “up to the time”: For the continued story of the Widow’s Mite, see Funk, Widow’s Mite, 155-77.
261: “A batch of reporters came after me”: Hodgson to Hyslop, Apr. 7, 1903, beginning of an exchange of letters during that month, ASPR.
264: “ill-defined relations of the subliminal”: Henry James, “Review of Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by Frederic W. H. Myers (1903),” Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 18 (1903): 22-33.
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267: “Sometimes, I can hardly wait”: Berger, Lives and Letters in American- Parapsychology, 31.
269: “Well, Lord Rayleigh”: quoted in “The King,” in Edwardian England, 1901-1914, ed. Simon Nowell-Smith (London: Oxford University Press, 1964), 21; Barrett’s presidential address cited in Haynes, Society for Psychical Research, 185.
269: “described in mocking detail”: “Pepper Seance a Lively One,” New York Times, Feb. 27, 1905; “General Montcalm’s Crown Bobs up at a Séance,” New York Times, Mar. 6, 1905.
271: “all the heroic qualities”: WJ to Flournoy, Oct. 11, 1904, Houghton.
271: “I didn’t at all”: WJ to Hyslop, Nov. 11, 1904, Houghton.
271: “I have had a hard enough task”: Hyslop to WJ, Feb. 27, 1905, ASPR.
272: “My Excellent Hyslop”: WJ to Hyslop, Feb. 28, 1905, Houghton and ASPR.
273: “Go for the scoundrel”: Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 14 (1899): 367.
273: “Absolutely sudden, dropt dead”: WJ to Schiller, Jan. 16, 1909, Houghton.
273: Hodgson’s funeral: Description of funeral from a report on “semi-annual” history of the Tavern Club, given by Dr. M. A. DeWolfe Howe, on May 7, 1906, and from a letter from WJ to Horace Fletcher on Dec. 25, 1905, Houghton, which talks about the number of people in tears.
274: “What is the matter?”: This and all other such sittings that involve the reputed return of Richard Hodgson’s spirit from William James, “Report on Mrs. Piper’s Hodgson-Control,” Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 23 (1909): 2-121.
274: WJ to Flournoy, Feb. 9, 1906, letter contains prediction on ASPR future, Houghton.
275: “You lack the discretion”: WJ to Hyslop, Feb. 7, 1906, Houghton and ASPR.
276: the cross-correspondence study: Material throughout this chapter about the cross-correspondence studies is drawn from