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281: “Pepper went on trial”: “Mrs. Pepper a Bride; To Stop Spookfests,” New York Times, June 5, 1907; “Vanderbilt Signed Checks for Spook,” New York Times, June 14, 1907; and “Mrs. Pepper Heard on Witness Stand,” New York Times, Sept. 6, 1907.
286: records of the sittings: James, “Mrs. Piper’s Hodgson-Control.”
287: Everard Feilding: Feilding is profiled in the introduction to Sittings with Eusapia Palladino and Other Stories, a collection of Feilding’s early-twentieth-century psychical research reports (Hyde Park, N.Y: University Books, 1963); his description of the London medium can be found on pp. x—xi. The accounts of the Palladino sittings are taken from Feilding, Baggally and Carrington, “Sittings with Eusapia Palladino.”
293: “The paramount importance”: Barrett, Threshold of the Unseen, 1-9.
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296: “his analysis of Mrs. Piper’s Hodgson personality”: James, “Mrs. Piper’s Hodgson-Control.”
300: “few people who looked into the evidence”: Nora Sidgwick lecture, Jan. 25, 1912, which expanded on presidential address, reprinted in Sidgwick, Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, 301-11.
303: “perish in their ignorance and conceit”: WJ to Carrington, June 15, 1909; in Letters to Hereward Carrington (privately printed, 1957), 41.
303: “Seriously to investigate”: G. Stanley Hall, introduction to Tanner, Studies in Spiritism. All accounts of the Tanner and Hall studies of Mrs. Piper are taken from this book. For accounts of injuries and the response of Alta and Leonora Piper, see Piper, Life and Work, 173—75.
305: “By this morning’s post”: Lodge’s exchange with Hall detailed in letters to WJ on Nov. 9, 1909, and Dec. 14, 1909, Houghton.
307: “Poor Carrington”: TJ to Flournoy, Sept. 28, 1909, Houghton.
309: “Alice would barely speak to Munsterberg”: WJ to William James Jr., Feb. 27, 1903, Houghton.
309: “Were it not for my fixed belief”: WJ to Munsterberg, June 28, 1906, Houghton.
309: “insinuate that I also am one”: WJ to Flournoy, Jan. 26, 1910.
309: “Fraud with the feet”: Flournoy to WJ, Mar. 15, 1910.
310: “The Confidences of a Psychical Researcher”: William James, “The Confidences of a Psychical Researcher,” American Magazine 68 (Oct. 1909): 580-89.
311: “Carrington had tried to repair her reputation”: Carrington’s account of the American sittings and his efforts to control damage afterward can be found in Personal Experiences in Spiritualism (London: J. Werner Laurie, Ltd., 1913).
312: “Everything this time was different”: Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 25 (1911): 57-69.
312: “Man’s character is too sophistically mixed”: James, “Confidences of a Psychical Researcher.”
314: “I came in with Halley’s comet”: “Mark Twain: A Look at the Life and Works of Samuel Clemens,” www.hannibal.net/twain/biography/.
314: Podmore’s death is described in Eric Dingwall’s introduction to Mediums of the 19th Century, xxi-xxii.
315: “Suicide has... been suggested”: Piddington to Hyslop, Nov. 1, 1910, ASPR.
316: “He wanted to go”: Alice James to Pauline Goldmark, Sept. 14, 1910, Houghton.
316: “I believe in immortality”: Simon, Genuine Reality, 385.
317: “Human Beings Only an Aggregate of Cells”: Edward Marshall, “‘No Immortality of the Soul’ says Thomas A. Edison,” New York Times, Oct. 2, 1910.
319: “Our duty is plain”: Richet, Thirty Years, 625.
319: “The public is what it is”: Feilding to Carrington, Aug. 15, 1912, in Letters to Hereward Carrington, 19.
320: “Any man who does not accept”: Introduction to James H. Hyslop, Contact with the Other World (New York: Century Company, 1919).
320: “unwillingly children of the time”: E. Feilding, “Can Psychical Research Contribute to Religious Apologetics?” Dublin Review, Apr.-June 1925; reprinted in Feilding, Sittings with Eusapia Palladino, 326-334.