The Letters of William James, Vol. 1

4

The places of two of the eleven who died early were taken by their orphaned children.

5

According to the Rev. Hugh Walsh of Newburgh, who has worked out the Walsh genealogy. A Small Boy and Others (page 6) says "Killyleagh."

6

A Small Boy and Others, p. 8.

7

Literary Remains of Henry James, Introduction, p. 9.

8

See, further, Notes of a Son and Brother, pp. 181 et seq.

9

Society of the Redeemed Form of Man, quoted in the Introduction to Literary Remains, p. 57, et seq.

10

Letter to Shadworth H. Hodgson, p. 241 infra.

11

A Small Boy and Others, p. 216.

12

Vide also a passage in the Literary Remains, at p. 104.

13

Life of E. L. Godkin, vol. II, p. 218. New York, 1907.

14

Early Years of the Saturday Club; E. W. Emerson's chapter on Henry James, Senior, p. 328. There follows a delightful account of a "Conversation" at R. W. Emerson's house in Concord, at which Henry James, Senior, upset a prepared discourse of Alcott's and launched himself into an attack on "Morality." Whereupon Miss Mary Moody Emerson, "eighty-four years old and dressed underneath without doubt, in her shroud," seized him by the shoulders and shook him and rebuked him. "Mr. James beamed with delight and spoke with most chivalrous courtesy to this Deborah bending over him."

15

Some passages in William James's early letters to his family might seem labored. They should be read with this in mind. An especially high-sounding phrase or a flight into a grand style was understood as a signal meaning "fun," and such passages are never to be taken as serious.

16

A Small Boy and Others, p. 207.

17

For James's use of Touchstone's question, see p. 190 infra.

18

Cf. Henry James's Life of W. W. Story, vol. II, p. 204, where there is a passage which sounds reminiscent of the author's father and brother.

19

The following entries occur among some "notes on his students" which President Eliot made at the time—

20

The expression was undoubtedly recognized in Kay Street as borrowed from the Lincolnshire boor, in Fitzjames Stephen's Essay on Spirit-Rapping, who ended his life with the words, "What with faith, and what with the earth a-turning round the sun, and what with the railroads a-fuzzing and a-whizzing, I'm clean stonied, muddled and beat."

21

A diary of Mr. T. S. Perry's has fixed the date of this visit as Oct. 31-Nov. 4.

22

W. J. could make much better drawings than the ones which he enclosed in this letter.

23

A horse.

24

N. S. Shaler, Autobiography, pp. 105 ff.

25

Harvard Advocate, Oct. 1, 1874.

26

The "great anthropomorphological collection" consisted of photographs of authors, scientists, public characters, and also people whose only claim upon his attention was that their physiognomies were in some way typical or striking. James never arranged the collection or preserved it carefully, but he filled at least one album in early days, and he almost always kept some drawer or box at hand and dropped into it portraits cut from magazines or obtained in other ways. He seemed to crave a visual image of everybody who interested him at all.

27

All theory is gray, dear friend,But the golden tree of life is green.

28

See Memories and Studies, pp. 6, 8, and 9; and the address on Agassiz, passim.

29

The case of small-pox left no scar whatever. Indeed James afterward regarded it as having been perhaps no small-pox at all, but only varioloid, and by October he described himself as being in better health than ever before. During several weeks of convalescence that followed his distressing experience in quarantine he was, however, quite naturally, "blue and despondent."

30

This house has since been enlarged and converted into the Colonial Club.

31

John A. Allen, another of the Brazilian party.

32

Miss Dixwell became Mrs. O. W. Holmes; the other two, Mrs. E. W. Gurney and Mrs. William E. Darwin respectively.