THE LETTERS OF
WILLIAM JAMES

THE LETTERS OF
WILLIAM JAMES

EDITED BY HIS SON
HENRY JAMES
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOLUME II

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
BOSTON

Copyright, 1920, by
HENRY JAMES

CONTENTS
[XI]. 1893-1899[1-52]
Turning to Philosophy—A Student's Impressions—PopularLecturing—Chautauqua.
Letters:—
To Dickinson S. Miller [17]
To Henry Holt[19]
To Henry James[20]
To Henry James[20]
To Mrs. Henry Whitman[20]
To G. H. Howison[22]
To Theodore Flournoy[23]
To his Daughter[25]
To E. L. Godkin[28]
To F. W. H. Myers[30]
To F. W. H. Myers[32]
To Henry Holt[33]
To his Class at Radcliffe College[33]
To Henry James[34]
To Henry James[36]
To Benjamin P. Blood[38]
To Mrs. James[40]
To Miss Rosina H. Emmet[44]
To Charles Renouvier[44]
To Theodore Flournoy[46]
To Dickinson S. Miller[48]
To Henry James[51]
[XII].1893-1899 (Continued)[53-91]
The Will to Believe—Talks to Teachers—Defenseof Mental Healers—Excessive Climbing in the Adirondacks.
Letters:—
To Theodore Flournoy[53]
To Henry W. Rankin[56]
To Benjamin P. Blood[58]
To Henry James[60]
To Miss Ellen Emmet[62]
To E. L. Godkin[64]
To F. C. S. Schiller[65]
To James J. Putnam[66]
To James J. Putnam[72]
To François Pillon[73]
To Mrs. James[75]
To G. H. Howison[79]
To Henry James[80]
To his Son Alexander[81]
To Miss Rosina H. Emmet[82]
To Dickinson S. Miller[84]
To Dickinson S. Miller[86]
To Henry Rutgers Marshall[86]
To Henry Rutgers Marshall[88]
To Mrs. Henry Whitman[88]
[XIII].1899-1902[92-170]
Two Years of Illness in Europe—Retirement fromActive Duty at Harvard—The First and SecondSeries of the Gifford Lectures.
Letters:—
To Miss Pauline Goldmark[95]
To Mrs. E. P. Gibbens[96]
To William M. Salter[99]
To Miss Frances R. Morse[102]
To Mrs. Henry Whitman[103]
To Thomas Davidson[106]
To John C. Gray[108]
To Miss Frances R. Morse[109]
To Mrs. Glendower Evans[112]
To Dickinson S. Miller[115]
To Francis Boott[117]
To Hugo Münsterberg[119]
To G. H. Palmer[120]
To Miss Frances R. Morse[124]
To his Son Alexander[129]
To his Daughter[130]
To Miss Frances R. Morse[133]
To Miss Frances R. Morse[133]
To Josiah Royce[135]
To Miss Frances R. Morse[138]
To James Sully[140]
To Miss Frances R. Morse[142]
To F. C. S. Schiller[142]
To Miss Frances R. Morse[143]
To Miss Frances R. Morse[146]
To Henry W. Rankin[148]
To Charles Eliot Norton[150]
To N. S. Shaler[153]
To Miss Frances R. Morse[155]
To Henry James[159]
To E. L. Godkin[159]
To E. L. Godkin[161]
To Miss Pauline Goldmark[162]
To H. N. Gardiner[164]
To F. C. S. Schiller[164]
To Charles Eliot Norton[166]
To Mrs. Henry Whitman[167]
[XIV]. 1902-1905[171-218]
The Last Period (I)—Statements of Religious Belief—Philosophical Writing.
Letters:—
To Henry L. Higginson[173]
To Miss Grace Norton[173]
To Miss Frances R. Morse[175]
To Henry L. Higginson[176]
To Henri Bergson[178]
To Mrs. Louis Agassiz[180]
To Henry L. Higginson[182]
To Henri Bergson[183]
To Theodore Flournoy[185]
To Henry James[188]
To his Daughter[192]
To Miss Frances R. Morse[193]
To Henry James[195]
To Henry W. Rankin[196]
To Dickinson S. Miller[197]
To Mrs. Henry Whitman[198]
To Miss Frances R. Morse[200]
To Mrs. Henry Whitman[201]
To Henry James[202]
To François Pillon[203]
To Henry James[204]
To Charles Eliot Norton[206]
To L. T. Hobhouse[207]
To Edwin D. Starbuck[209]
To James Henry Leuba[211]
Answers to the Pratt Questionnaire on Religious Belief[212]
To Miss Pauline Goldmark[215]
To F. C. S. Schiller[216]
To F. J. E. Woodbridge[217]
To Edwin D. Starbuck[217]
To F. J. E. Woodbridge[218]
[XV]. 1905-1907[219-282]
The Last Period (II)—Italy and Greece—PhilosophicalCongress in Rome—Stanford University—TheEarthquake—Resignation of Professorship.
Letters:—
To Mrs. James[221]
To his Daughter[223]
To Mrs. James[225]
To George Santayana[228]
To Mrs. James[229]
To Mrs. James[230]
To H. G. Wells[230]
To Henry L. Higginson[231]
To T. S. Perry[232]
To Dickinson S. Miller[233]
To Dickinson S. Miller[235]
To Dickinson S. Miller[237]
To Daniel Merriman[238]
To Miss Pauline Goldmark[238]
To Henry James[239]
To Theodore Flournoy[241]
To F. C. S. Schiller[245]
To Miss Frances R. Morse[247]
To Henry James and W. James, Jr.[250]
To W. Lutoslawski[252]
To John Jay Chapman[255]
To Henry James[258]
To H. G. Wells[259]
To Miss Theodora Sedgwick[260]
To his Daughter[262]
To Henry James and W. James, Jr.[263]
To Moorfield Storey[265]
To Theodore Flournoy[266]
To Charles A. Strong[268]
To F. C. S. Schiller[270]
To Clifford W. Beers[273]
To William James, Jr.[275]
To Henry James[277]
To F. C. S. Schiller[280]
[XVI]. 1907-1909[283-332]
The Last Period (III)—Hibbert Lectures in Oxford—TheHodgson Report.
Letters:—
To Charles Lewis Slattery[287]
To Henry L. Higginson[288]
To W. Cameron Forbes[288]
To F. C. S. Schiller[290]
To Henri Bergson[290]
To T. S. Perry[294]
To Dickinson S. Miller[295]
To Miss Pauline Goldmark[296]
To W. Jerusalem[297]
To Henry James[298]
To Theodore Flournoy[300]
To Norman Kemp Smith[301]
To his Daughter[301]
To Henry James[302]
To Henry James[303]
To Miss Pauline Goldmark[303]
To Charles Eliot Norton[306]
To Henri Bergson[308]
To John Dewey[310]
To Theodore Flournoy[310]
To Shadworth H. Hodgson[312]
To Theodore Flournoy[313]
To Henri Bergson[315]
To H. G. Wells[316]
To Henry James[317]
To T. S. Perry[318]
To Hugo Münsterberg[320]
To John Jay Chapman[321]
To G. H. Palmer[322]
To Theodore Flournoy[322]
To Miss Theodora Sedgwick[324]
To F. C. S. Schiller[325]
To Theodore Flournoy[326]
To Shadworth H. Hodgson[328]
To John Jay Chapman[329]
To John Jay Chapman[330]
To John Jay Chapman[330]
To Dickinson S. Miller[331]
[XVII]. 1910[333-350]
Final Months—The End.
Letters:—
To Henry L. Higginson[334]
To Miss Frances R. Morse[335]
To T. S. Perry[335]
To François Pillon[336]
To Theodore Flournoy[338]
To his Daughter[338]
To Henry P. Bowditch[341]
To François Pillon[342]
To Henry Adams[344]
To Henry Adams[346]
To Henry Adams[347]
To Benjamin P. Blood[347]
To Theodore Flournoy[349]
[Appendix I.][353]
Three Criticisms for Students.
[Appendix II.][357]
Books by William James.
[Index][363]