Acknowledgments are due, first of all, to the correspondents who have generously supplied letters. Several who were most generous and to whom I am most indebted have, alas! passed beyond the reach of thanks. I wish particularly to record my gratitude here to correspondents too numerous to be named who have furnished letters that are not included. Such material, though omitted from the book, has been informing and helpful to the Editor. One example may be cited—the copious correspondence with Mrs. James which covers the period of every briefest separation; but extracts from this have been used only when other letters failed. From Dr. Dickinson S. Miller, from Professor R. B. Perry, from my mother, from my brother William, and from my wife, all of whom have seen the material at different stages of its preparation, I have received many helpful suggestions, and I gratefully acknowledge my special debt to them. President Eliot, Dr. Miller, and Professor G. H. Palmer were, each, so kind as to send me memoranda of their impressions and recollections. I have embodied parts of the memoranda of the first two in my notes; and have quoted from Professor Palmer's minute—about to appear in the "Harvard Graduates' Magazine." For all information about William James's Barber ancestry I am indebted to the genealogical investigations of Mrs. Russell Hastings. Special acknowledgments are due to Mr. George B. Ives, who has prepared the topical index.

Finally, I shall be grateful to anyone who will, at any time, advise me of the whereabouts of any letters which I have not already had an opportunity to examine.

H. J.

August, 1920.

CONTENTS

[I.] INTRODUCTION[1-30]
Ancestry—Henry James, Senior—Youth—Education—Certain
Personal Traits.
[II. 1861-1864][31-52]
Chemistry and Comparative Anatomy in the Lawrence Scientific School.
LETTERS:—
To his Family[33]
To Miss Katharine Temple (Mrs. Richard Emmet)[37]
To his Family[40]
To Katharine James Prince[43]
To his Mother[45]
To his Sister[49]
[III. 1864-1866][53-70]
The Harvard Medical School—With Louis Agassizto the Amazon.
LETTERS:—
To his Mother[56]
To his Parents[57]
To his Father[60]
To his Father[64]
To his Parents[67]
[IV. 1866-1867][71-83]
Medical Studies at Harvard.
LETTERS:—
To Thomas W. Ward[73]
To Thomas W. Ward[76]
To his Sister[79]
To O. W. Holmes, Jr.[82]
[V. 1867-1868][84-139]
Eighteen Months in Germany.
LETTERS:—
To his Parents[86]
To his Mother[92]
To his Father[95]
To O. W. Holmes, Jr.[98]
To Henry James[103]
To his Sister[108]
To his Sister[115]
To Thomas W. Ward[118]
To Thomas W. Ward[119]
To Henry P. Bowditch[120]
To O. W. Holmes, Jr.[124]
To Thomas W. Ward[127]
To his Father[133]
To Henry James[136]
To his Father[137]
[VI. 1869-1872][140-164]
Invalidism in Cambridge.
LETTERS:—
To Henry P. Bowditch[149]
To O. W. Holmes, Jr., and John C. Gray, Jr.[151]
To Thomas W. Ward[152]
To Henry P. Bowditch[153]
To Miss Mary Tappan[156]
To Henry James[157]
To Henry P. Bowditch[158]
To Henry P. Bowditch[161]
To Charles Renouvier[163]
[VII. 1872-1878][165-191]
First Years of Teaching.
LETTERS:—
To Henry James[167]
[Henry James, Senior, to Henry James][169]
To his Family[172]
To his Sister[174]
To his Sister[175]
To his Sister[177]
To Henry James[180]
To Miss Theodora Sedgwick[181]
To Henry James[182]
To Henry James[183]
To Charles Renouvier[186]
[VIII. 1878-1883][192-222]
Marriage—Contract for the Psychology—European
Colleagues—Death of his Parents.
LETTERS:—
To Francis J. Child[196]
To Miss Frances R. Morse[197]
To Mrs. James[199]
To Josiah Royce[202]
To Josiah Royce[204]
To Charles Renouvier[206]
To Charles Renouvier[207]
To Mrs. James[210]
To Mrs. James[211]
To Henry James[217]
To his Father[218]
To Mrs. James[221]
[IX. 1883-1890][223-299]
Writing the "Principles of Psychology"—Psychical
Research—The Place at Chocorua—The Irving
Street House—The Paris Psychological Congressof 1889.
LETTERS:—
To Charles Renouvier[229]
To Henry L. Higginson[233]
To Henry P. Bowditch[234]
To Thomas Davidson[235]
To G. H. Howison[237]
To E. L. Godkin[240]
To E. L. Godkin[240]
To Shadworth H. Hodgson[241]
To Henry James[242]
To Shadworth H. Hodgson[243]
To Carl Stumpf[247]
To Henry James[250]
To W. D. Howells[253]
To G. Croom Robertson[254]
To Shadworth H. Hodgson[256]
To his Sister[259]
To Carl Stumpf[262]
To Henry P. Bowditch[267]
To Henry James[267]
To his Sister[269]
To Henry James[273]
To Charles Waldstein[274]
To his Son Henry[275]
To his Son Henry[276]
To his Son William[278]
To Henry James[279]
To Miss Grace Norton[282]
To G. Croom Robertson[283]
To Henry James[283]
To E. L. Godkin[283]
To Henry James[285]
To Mrs. James[287]
To Miss Grace Norton[291]
To Charles Eliot Norton[292]
To Henry Holt[293]
To Mrs. James[294]
To Henry James[296]
To Mrs. Henry Whitman[296]
To W. D. Howells[298]
[X. 1890-1893][300-348]
The "Briefer Course" and the Laboratory—A
Sabbatical Year in Europe.
LETTERS:—
To Mrs. Henry Whitman[303]
To G. H. Howison[304]
To F. W. H. Myers[305]
To W. D. Howells[307]
To W. D. Howells[307]
To Mrs. Henry Whitman[308]
To his Sister[309]
To Hugo Münsterberg[312]
To Henry Holt[314]
To Henry James[314]
To Miss Grace Ashburner[315]
To Henry James[317]
To Miss Mary Tappan[319]
To Miss Grace Ashburner[320]
To Theodore Flournoy[323]
To William M. Salter[326]
To James J. Putnam[326]
To Miss Grace Ashburner[328]
To Josiah Royce[331]
To Miss Grace Norton[335]
To Miss Margaret Gibbens[338]
To Francis Boott[340]
To Henry James[342]
To François Pillon[343]
To Shadworth H. Hodgson[343]
To Dickinson S. Miller[344]
To Henry James[346]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

William James[Frontispiece]
Henry James, Sr., and his Wife[8]
William James at eighteen[20]
Pencil Sketch: A Sleeping Dog[52]
Pencil Sketch from a Pocket Note-Book: A Turtle[66]
Pencil Sketch: Retreating Figure of a Man[83]
William James at twenty-five[86]
Pencil Sketches from a Pocket Note-Book[108]
Pencil Sketch: An Elephant[139]
Francis James Child[291]

DATES AND FAMILY NAMES

1842.January 11. Born in New York.
1857-58.At School in Boulogne.
1859-60.In Geneva.
1860-61.Studied painting under William M. Hunt in Newport.
1861.Entered the Lawrence Scientific School.
1863.Entered the Harvard Medical School.
1865-66.Assistant under Louis Agassiz on the Amazon.
1867-68.Studied medicine in Germany.
1869.M.D. Harvard.
1873-76.Instructor in Anatomy and Physiology in Harvard College.
1875.Began to give instruction in Psychology.
1876.Assistant Professor of Physiology.
1878.Married. Undertook to write a treatise on Psychology.
1880.Assistant Professor of Philosophy.
1882-83.Spent several months visiting European universities and colleagues.
1885.Professor of Philosophy. (Between 1889 and 1897 his title was Professor of Psychology.)
1890."Principles of Psychology" appeared.
1892-93.European travel.
1897.Published "The Will to Believe and other Essays on Popular Philosophy."
1899.Published "Talks to Teachers," etc.
1899-1902.Broke down in health. Two years in Europe.
1901-1902.Gifford Lectures. "The Varieties of Religious Experience."
1906.Acting Professor for half-term at Stanford University. (Interrupted by San Francisco earthquake.)
1906.Lowell Institute lectures, subsequently published as "Pragmatism."
1907.Resigned all active duties at Harvard.
1908.Hibbert lectures at Manchester College, Oxford; subsequently published as "A Pluralistic Universe."
1910.August 26. Died at Chocorua, N.H.