1905 Dorrfweling 1906 Emerson Hall fund -reasing -Antiquities Act Bullday of th art Minis -Building of th Arts construction res. Eliofs address at Dedic. Albright (9/30/41) Art gallery - GBD to I story (UPS carton re Emers on Mamoral Hall-2 sources responses to her critique of story (HGM, Dec. '057 March '06) + antiquities Act -CBP an psychical receared- Elect to CBD (5/15) i Tawen Old Form senesc W James Cluh met +WiH gleason photograph - 6BD dines c William Everett -CBO hosts George and Dorothy Howard, the of after Eorl of Carlisle & are daughter's, October- Naverday 1906 3/28/2021 IEW / By Tina Jordan OUR FIRST-EVER COVER PHOTO 1905. "OUR PORTRAIT OF Edith Wharton, whose seri- al novel in Scribner's, 'The House of Mirth," is so eagerly discussed this summer is the first portrait printed in The New York Times Book Review in eight years or more," the editors wrote in the Aug 12. 1905 issue. It was also the first time an author photo appeared like this on the cover: "The departure from custom is surely justified by the widespread interest in the subject." The photograph - as exquisitely composed as a scene in "The House of Mirth" - features Wharton in a lace tea dress at her desk. When this issue appeared, "The House of Mirth" was captivating - and dividing - New York with its less-than-flattering depiction of high society. This was at a time when many nov- els were first published in serial form. Initially, the Book Review wasn't a fan, writing in April 1905 that "it develops in a rather grim fashion," but allowing that "we must be grateful for these glimpses of the inner social circle, given by one who has the magic password.' By June 1905, the Book Review was raving about the novel, and by August, literary New York could talk of little else. "The recently printed assertion that 'The House of Mirth,' like most 'society' novels, promised to reach no logical or dramatic conclusion, seems to be sufficiently disproven in the latest install- ment," the Book Review editors noted. "Indeed the novel has a well-wrought plot which cannot fail to develop a striking denouement." The New York Times. SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS--P 12. W York R.Epp 1906 Activities: Notes. 2/5/ 680 to CWE on Sols Cliff landorsed by February 15: John Jay Chapman houseguest at 18 Commonwealth Avenue May 18: William James pens letter to John Jay Chapman informing him that James spent May 17th at George Dorr's telling him of Chapman's visit. June 5: Oldfarm Series sittings with the R.H.-control. June 25: Dorr letter to Charles W. Eliot detailing the Sol's Cliff Harvard property adjacent to his own and making a recommendation for a third-party to mediate the August 6: Third-party report from David Ogden is provided to President Eliphot and Mr. 7/29/Hila issue. time GBD to CWELLERS to "before I 90 out West : Dorr. The next day Dorr sends his six page response to Dr. Eliot. Sept. 6: Informs President Eliot that responsibilities-financial and architectural-for the new Building of the Arts has been on his shoulders, as has nursery business and the development of his lands on MDI. Abandons trip West. October 6: State of Maine Certificate of Organization for the Bar Harbor Village Library October 22: William Everett agrees to dine with Mr. Dorr this evening Visit from York, Englard Building of the Arts under construction (1906). Letter from GBD to JORIr. (193Y). What of further in teractors I Jre-Janes, coppre psychical research (8/14/18). (E2) Edward W. Forbes. Saturday Club a when Completed (920-1956. 1958 X Social Register , l Boston 1905. Vol. XIX, # 5 (Nov. (904). N.Y : Sound Register Aoorc ) 1904 1.44 M.t us. Alfed P. Dors 333 Mr. Bonjou H. worr The Charlengete Sm.Tr. 4'18 and Fey Lodge Dorr. The Tuder. Misses Dorr " " M + u Ellentn Ledd Dons Jr 11 1. Mr. Dear B. Dorr - Im Tv. Ub . Uvn H'74 Phn 523BB 18 Community Ave. Mr. Henry Gustovus Dorr U.U.R. Joseph Dorri No Wards, Sm= Somerset TV = Taveen Ub= Union Boat 8 Club. Sixty Years of the Urean Howard Maynadier Uv- University Boat club. 1913. a copies. Peahoof Essek this ILL 7/8/06 Use ILL for early years . No entry for Dorr as past member, but has retained membership since 8/12/89 as current member (1913) GRAY HEREPRIUM ARCH VES For study only. Written authorization must be 18 Commonwealth Avenue. obtait ed for cil other uses. April 24th, 1905. Dear Mr Robinson, Please excuse an invitation by typewriter, but I have got to go down to Bar Harbor tonight to look after the spring planting at my Nurseries. I am going to have scme colored lantern slides of the Canadian Rocky wild-flowers, shown at the Tavern Club on Monday evening, May first, after its annual meeting. And I am allowed to ask in a few guests of my own to see them. If you will be one of these and will come at quarter past nine to the Club house in Boylston Place, it will give me great pleasure to welcome you there. The coloring of the flowers has been unusually well done, from notes taken when the flowers them- selves were photographed, and the slides, which are not my own, of course, give one a really good idea, I think, of the flowers and plants themselves as one sees them growing in the mountains. Hoping you may come, I am Dea the Pobristor, Sincerely yours, The an the Clearn's Mechales you Slides they have Sun diew interest One B. West when you you think Height also like Wtu item will for If tort And I think if their they should would he any The in the Department tor Benjamin L. Robinson, Esq. him also they him will yru GBW- 2 please effend My W HARVARD UNIVERSITY CAMBRIDGE May 15, 1905. Dear Mr. Dorr:- I meant to come to the meeting of the Tavern Club on the evening of May 1st, but was prevented by callers at the last moment. I have seen some of Mr. Gleason's photographic work and know its merit. I was sorry to miss the pleasure you offered me. Your kind note of April 25th ought to have been answered at the time, but I was quite overwhelmed with work that week. Very truly yours, Charles A. Elion George B. Dorr, Esq. Plastering has begunson are Emerson Hall. the do not wish to hurry The work . 18 Commonwealth Avenue. Boston, June 9th, 1905. Gray Herbarian, Harvard University, Cambridge. Dear Sir, will you kindly write me on the enclosed postal the name of this flower which I came upon growing freely upon the banks of the Charles river out at Wellesley yester- day ? It is one familiar to me but I cannot recall its name. Yours truly, George B. Dorr. Per M.N.H. Dorr at the Mount From "Cornelia Gilder" To Date 02/27/2009 09:22:27 PM Reply To Hello Ron, I was at the Bienecke today looking at Edith Wharton's letters to Sally Norton and came across this reference which dates at least one visit to the Mount. You probably know this but just in case.. How is the book process? hope all is well with you both. NINI June 14th !905 "I was glad to hear from Mr. Dorr, who is staying with us, that he thought you looking much better when he was a Shady Hill the other day." (I can give you the reference if you need it) -- Hawthorne's Lenox: The Tanglewood Circle By Cornelia Brooke Gilder & Julia Conklin Peters http://www.amazon.com/Hawthornes-Lenox-Cornelia-Brooke-Gilder/dp/159629406X, Houses of the Berkshires, 1870-1930 By Richard S. Jackson Jr. & Cornelia Brooke Gilder http://www.acanthuspress.com/pc-20-8-houses-of-the-berkshires-1870-1930.aspx Beinecke YCAL 42 Series II.folden 899. https://webmail.myfairpoint.net/hwebmail/mail/message.php?index=295 5/24/2010 [8/14/05] 05 Old Farm, Bar Garbor, Maine. Dear President Elist, I am gradually optien up my land here, & shaighten, out my foundain from his them, by / Change list My heighten rhy land form Muchael So that this lines may be determined by etc. hature of th Grams, du Come of Had etc. What by Chanes and this year Than been Studyey our that portion of they land whiel forder, among other, lite 2. And Min Ethi. left to HawardCotty abmall pertic of this runn up a Sluf rock, hillside to they land alove is Cut off from the that by the nighty Wa, road which gives accus Is then Markoi's rath land beyond- I would like to talk the matter Our neft fall unit Some Our representing the Certivation Yes if I Cannot arrange uit it for He purchase High of this hies, a hidugh it's with the hillSide th ban upa roadway, I so Ma, become my Old Farm, Bar Darbor, Maine. My foundary I do urt think the Carperation would sacrific any the of Value or to itisite h din, this, hit it has occumed to lue that polite you hight be Coni our Sthu da, r would anim af take a look at it but Mr. it would not take long I'm giving West in a week or to, to Informat Out h. Organ Chance, White I live. thould hit Should you your Come blen, / by good 3. give the great please. if you & the Elift yany the when you tright have but you Would Clus V lewer list the K let the ask two or then people also is - Relice Friend Genz August 11gt 88 The was adopted Resolved That the matter of the extirmination of brown tail moths be referred to the committee on Trees and Planting and that the matter of an appropriation for that purpose be left 16 the annual meeting of the association yrs. B. oorr reported informally for the committee on Trees and Planting and Mrs. Edward B. mears for the Village committee. voted that a committee consisting 7 the president ofth association and the chairmen of the Viege Green committee and The Village Committee be affointed to consider the question of circulating leafelets in regard to keeping the streets, Village Green and other public place free Rotent waste paper, itc. many Park Committe and miss ninot Dr. Amory reported for Glen for the committee on the Preservation of wild Flowers. The resignation of Gro. B. Dorr as Chairman of the village Green committee was received and accepted 1405 with regret miss Beatrix Jones was affointed chairman of that committee. SH BAR HARBOR ASSOCIATION OF ARTS Bar Harbor, Maine nar August 24, 1937. Mr and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, 3rd, Wabenäki, Seal Harbor, Maine. Dear Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller: The Building of Arts was planned during the summer of 1905 to make a home for music at Bar Harbor where dis- tinguished artists who then had their summer residence in its vicinity, at Seal Harbor and Hulls Cove, at Bluehill and elsewhere, should find a welcome opportunity for their art, and where summer residents of the region might gather for its enjoyment. During the following year the Building of Arts took shape and in the summer of 1907 was opened by a series of concerts that at once gave it notable place as a summer center for the best in music, and a reputation among artists that made the opportunity it offered for performance widely sought. That was thirty years ago this summer. The committee that planned the concerts then and the audiences that listened to them have now, with but few exceptions, passed on, but the opportunity created still remains and holds fair promise for the future, with wider possibilities for usefulness along both the old lines and the new ones, musical and dramatic, that the changing times have brought. The building, built to endure at large expense, remains sound and structurally unchanged in all essential features and needs for its preservation and future usefulness but relatively slight repair, though important to be made. The site is splendid with its rising background of old pines and the green golf link lawns about it; the building placed upon it forms a unique, conspicuous feature in the land- scape seen from the mountain road and widely from the trails over the encircling mountains that look down on the Bar Harbor plain. Unless steps such as are herein suggested are taken, it may prove necessary that this beautiful landmark be sold for taxes or demolished. To preserve it to future usefulness, and the beauty of the landscape in which it forms so prominent a feature, is the aim of the undersigned committee who seek your co- operation in it by becoming a member of the Building of Arts Associates organized for the purpose, with an annual pay- ment of ten dollars to create a fund to meet the annual town taxes, a moderate insurance and incidental repairs and ex- penses necessary to the building's upkeep. From those who 2. BAR HARBOR ASSOCIATION OF ARTS take special interest in the building's preservation and the continuation into the future of the Association's aims and purposes, and who feel free to give more largely, any sum they may be moved to contribute will be welcome to the committee in their work. A card is enclosed for signature and statement of the amount contributed for the year September 1, 1937 to September 1, 1938, at the expiration of which term notice will be sent to those contributing, inviting them to renew their contribution. George B. Dorr, President. John Hampton Barnes, Chairman Dave Hennen Morris Arthur Train Executive Committee. avaid instern 2 16. 1905 Tear My in have Nine honor to invo ic Tan is line opening of lacerson Fall for in wilding of which we have in greatly to thank Tour generous energy - there will he a luncheon given by the University it the farmaed him - by treasurer 27. C L Include and is meeting in the are HUA Subscription Records Subsouption for Emergen 1 tall 190105 lecture room is chrison Hall at 230 1 insident this and for Sherror will year and the APD will culer shirt joint levale. try trady your 2 Mov. 2011 18 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. November 29th, 1905. David B. Ogden, Esq., New York City. Dear David, This is an account of what I did at Bar Harbor with regard to the new building. Lowell went down with me about ten days after I saw you in New York and we located the building, putting the south- ern side of it about one hundred feet back from the road line (which is some eight or ten feet back from the present road-ditch). This still leaves quite a space upon the northern side of the building between it and the round turn of the right of way, some sixty feet as I recall it though perhaps not quite so much. The southern facing is practically parallel to the line of the road opposite, and somewhat to the west of the gap between the mountains. East and west, the site we chose is as much to the east as the ledge that rises up to the eastward would permit, 80 that the continuation of the ledge below ground crops out slightly into the cellar. This seemed best, first because it would fall in with building, sometime our hereafter Greek scena at the foot of the ledge with the ledge itself for amphitheatre; and second, that we might get as much space as possible at the building's western end, between it and the golf links - and on account of some large trees. The site determined itself as we worked it out very closely, and I do not think could well be other than the one we chose. Lowell brought down with him a man named Buttimer who was 2. building superintendent upon Edgar Scott's house and whom I saw something of at that time, as they were getting their stone from my quarry. He is a man very well fitted to do that kind of work well, and economically too I think. Lowell sent him down again a week after he went back, with the completed foundation plans. We then got bids on these, taking concrete as the material. Buttimer, speak- ing for Lowell, who was then just sailing for a few weeks in Europe, and also from his own experience felt sure that concrete foundations rightly laid would be permanent and wholly satisfactory, and that with care they might be safely laid at this season and on into winter. And also that the cost would be much less than that of stone. We got bids from Preble, Westcot, Shea, Strout & Willy (who have the contract for building the Water Company's filter) Stanley, and Norris, their bids ranging from $11,000. down to $5,500., in the order in which I have named them. Stanley's bid - the one that came next to Norris's being $6027. Norris is an excellent mason, the best down there I imagine, and had charge of the stone work on the Scott house, but he is not a man to be relied on financially in any sense, I believe. He is also a splendid foreman, getting good work out of his men and keeping things moving and also good at think- ing out the best method of doing his work whatever that may be. The next step was to make sure that Norris was good for his bid financially. He said that he could bring backers who would en- dorse his contract. I told him to take them to Mr Lynam and let him pass upon them. He produced J. E. Trip and Clifford Doliver, whom Lynam said he should consider satisfactory. We therefore awarded the contract to Norris. Buttimer, however, said that he thought something might be saved even on Norris's bid if we did the work by the day, taking Norris as superintendent which he had found out 3. Mr Lowell's office whom Mr Lowell had had in mind for it to take charge of the work. Norris also said he thought he could save something by doing the work in that way as in making his estimate of cost he had made allowance for unforseen contingencies. I favored working in this way myself because I did not feel wholly satisfied but that laying concrete, of which they have had but little experience down there, at this season when there are liable to be sudden cold snaps and hard frosts might be risky if not done under experienced and careful superintendence. And I also thought that the foundation plan might probably be modified in detail, in the interest both of convenience and economy, to muit the ledge and situation as the work went on if some one were there looking after it who was competent to do it. So I decided, Buttimer also advising it, to do the work by the day, putting Norris in as foreman (at $5.00 a day) and having a building superintendent down from Mr Lowell's office. Buttimer accordingly went back to Boston and sent down a young architect named Ely, a graduate of the Institute of Technology, who took second prize one of the Rotch travelling-scholarship competitions a few years ago and studied for a year in Paris and then went down to Italy and Greece and spent three weeks at Athens making sketches there. Since then he has done some large jobs of constructional work- one of them for the Cash Register Company at Ohio, if I remember rightly, and another in New York he used concrete on these on a large scale and apparently has had considerable experience with it. The buildings out at Ohio he laid the concrete for through the midst of the severest winter weather, protecting the work as it went along as we have now planned to do at Bar Harbor. He had also been very much interested in his trip to Greece and made sketches there of the old buildings. so that he is very mich interested nor A. in our plan. He thinks the site remarkably good for such a build- ing, giving it a setting more in the Greek spirit than any he has ever seen in America. Lowell has left the working out of his sketches in detail to him quite largely under his own supervision he says, so that I was glad to find him really in intelligent sympathy with what we are trying to do architecturally. .He also seems an excellent man for the practical work and anxious, as he expressed it to me, "to make a record job of it if possible". He has a little office at the works and will be there steadily now while work is going on. We have ordered a tent whose length shall be the breadth of the building and somewhat more, and which I find can be made to order at Bangor at what seemed an absurdly low price. The concrete laying will be carried on under this, with stoves beneath it to keep the temperature above freezing while work is going on in freezing weather. This tent will be moved along the length of the building from west to east as the work progresses and the walls as fast as finished will be covered with hay or light manure to keep the frost out until the concrete has set hard, which it does in the course of a few days freezing then doing it no harm he says. The building is to have a six-inch akron drain-pipe at the base of the wall upon the northern side, outside of it, with a stone drain above it and vertical pipes to take the surface water down. And an eight-inch pipe will similarly go down past either end of the wall building to discharge into the roadside ditch. A small cess- pool is also being build in the south-eastern corner of the lot, where the terrace-fill will be a deep one, the water from it. syphoning out, draining off into a blind stone-drain and losing itself in the ground. This will have a separate pine leading down to it from the as building, laid in the same drain the eight-inch pipe from its east- 5. There will be two cellars, one at each end, as long as the building is broad and of moderate width. The one at the western end will be for a toilet room for guests, extra cloak room for any larger function and storage room for chairs, etc. The one at the eastern end will be the same breadth as the stage, and on a higher level than the western one to save blasting out ledge, this level being per- mitted by the greater head-room which the elevation of the stage will give. It will provide abundant dressing rooms, lighted by electric- ity, for theatrical performance, storage room for musicians' instru- ments, and the like, and also have a toilet room for the performers. Both these cellars will be free from piers. And the ground beneath the rest of the building will not be excavated except for the neces- sary foundations and to leave space for ventillation or for heating. The type of building which we have chosen calls for foundations that show a base wider than the building I forget what the arch- itectural term for it is and for broad steps descending to the south and west, as well as for the flooring of the columned porticos and on either side the deep bases on which these steps and porticos or whatever their term is must rest to protect them from sinking or being have by frost. This is the reason why the cost of the foundations is so large in proportion to the building. The approach avenue I threw off further when I came to study it over than we had planned at first. This was necessary in order to leave room for sloping down toward it from the terrace, whose level will be quite high above it. at the road-side. And also it had the advantage of keeping it further away from the building. It passes straight up from the road, running parallel with the west front of the building, which will have a court of ample size in front of it. I laid the avenue out sixteen feet wide: it will have a 6. solid stone foundation and a steady grade. The view from the terrace is going to be magnificent. I was very much struck with it myself when we got the ground for it clear. and it is going to make a splendid fore-court to the building on the southern side. In fact I feel that it is all going to work out better than I counted on and I think the whole effect is going to be a very striking one. The building and terrace, and the avenue, have been carefully fenced around so that the trees that lie outside of them will take no injury from the winter's work. Mr Ely's plan is to go ahead with the wooden framing of the building as soon as work upon the foundations is finished, 80 that all may be ready for the stucco and plaster work when spring opens. In this way only can we be sure of having the work done in season for next year. Lowell will be back in three or four weeks now, and then we shall want to get together and give the plans a very careful study as soon as he can get them into definite and final shape. I think he is really greatly interested in the building himself and has assured me that he looks. upon it as an opportunity of exceptional interest and will give it his best thought and study. And I feel confident he will. [George B Dor]] a-vard internity Income 6.995 tear year W the have Nine honor to invite the in the opening of Encereor Fill for the wilding of which we have in greatly to thank Tour generous energy - here will he a lunchear generity in Mus al the Harvard him accepts in on December 27. the Isched and a weeking 14 arge lecture room is character Hall 3a 1 two ? herios will yeak and the APD Management will enter into foist revale bear any traly your 6. Notable Books. [December, 1905.] Emerson Memorial Hall. 249 Moxon would be proud to acknowledge them- Prof. Palmer arranges the poems in a new order, placing his notes on that would astonish those makers of fine books. the page facing the text. For pictorial illustrations he gives portraits, of the work: the heart and soul of it, whether views of scenes and buildings connected with Herbert, facsimiles of manu- 8 text or Prof. Palmer's essays and comment, scripts and reproductions of title-pages. The result is as nearly per- atisfying. fect book - in which author, editor, critic, and publisher unite to do their evement as editor, thoroughness, absolute thor- best - as we are likely to see. It is the definitive edition of George ty that strikes one. He has not read up Her- Herbert: a delight for every lover of fine bookmaking and it may in a hurry but on the contrary, as he tells us, serve as a model of the way in which poets can (and therefore should) 's verse before he could read, and he has been be edited. rbert for more than fifty years. Consequently, nowledge and that long familiarity and associa- opinions. But in addition he has fine EMERSON MEMORIAL HALL. knowledge into small compass. One feels, at r has gone ahead and found the right solution Harvard's newest building, the Emerson Memorial Hall, the latest building to be given to the University, will be finished some time in De- uch more than a mere editor - no matter how cember, when it will be occupied by the departments of Philosophy and itor's vocation he is a literary critic of a high Psychology. The structure, an illustration of which we publish in this specialists in Elizabethan and Stuart literature issue, stands adjacent to Sever Hall, facing Robinson Hall, and was de- niot get many admirable suggestions from the signed by Guy Lowell, '92. Herbert's text. These essays consist of a bio- A difficult problem has been successfully solved in the erection of this trait of Herbert "the man" as revealed in his building. Sever and Robinson Halls differ 80 radically in architectural religious poetry, of a criticism of Herbert's style design, as well as in color and size, that the task of forming an harmonious examination of the text and order of the poems. group seemed well-nigh impossible when the ground was broken for Em- fom the etymology or pronunciation of a word, erson Hall. The building, though one story greater in height, has been highest spiritual or philosophical matter, which made to balance Robinson Hall in mass and design, and therefore with the least remarkable of his qualities is his Sever the three give to the Yard a group of much interest. sympathy and admiration for Herbert never The materials of construction are brick and limestone, used in about arning into pedantry. He shows his hero in the same proportion as those in Robinson Hall. The most unusual fea- oboverlook those idiosyncrasies which a critic ture is the use of large columns of brick, which carry through two stories. thas blemishes. Read, for instance, his ana- These occur in a group of six upon the front, and in a group of two upon His summing up deserves to be quoted the end elevation, giving a motive for the Yard entrance. They give the say that Herbert chooses wise means for desired effect of light and shade without detracting from the quiet effect the first of our lyric poets who can fairly of color due to the predominance of brick. The columns are of Ionic he first who systematically tries to shape order, and the whole building is Greek in feeling and detail. Over the predetermined plan, and that, too, a plan Yard entrance is the one word " Philosophy, and across the frieze over subject. He is the first who tries to cut off the colonnade, on the front, What is man that Thou art mindful of fluxuriant age. That he did not fully suc- him." At the present moment, although the newness of the limestone pioneer. He was working in private, on in the building gives rather sharp contrasts of color, the simplicity and while knowing very fully and sharing to a dignity of the design are such that time will quickly tone the structure, 80 contemporaries. But he was in possession that its real qualities will give to the Yard an added character that it has normous importance. That he was able to greatly needed. wo great achievements." The uses of the Hall will be such that the uniqueness of the Memorial 250 Emerson Memorial Hall. [December, 1905.] The Autumn Quarte is striking. Here, generation after generation will be inspired by the life and works of the great scholar and philosopher, in a way in which no THE UNIVERSIT other university can instruct and inspire, through the very atmosphere of the Memorial. It is to be the home of the Philosophical Department. THE AUTUMN QUART As one enters the building, in the hall will be seen the seated statue of Registration The following table gives an iter Emerson, in bronze. by Frank Duveneck. This hall is of impressive and statistics. total enrolment in the University o simple Doric proportions and detail. The hall leads directly to a lecture- 1904, and Oct. 14, 1905: room, seating 350 persons. On the first floor are also several class-rooms and rooms for seminars. A generous staircase leads to the second floor, Oct. 17, 1903. Oct which will be largely devoted to the sections of Sociology. Here will be College. the sociological library and museum, and also the philosophical library. Seniors 318 This floor has also a lecture-room seating 150 persons, beside various Juniors 419 Sophomores 637 class-rooms and studies. Through special gifts the libraries and other Freshmen 560 rooms on this floor are to be splendidly furnished and equipped. Special 136 The third floor is devoted entirely to Psychology. Here the greatest College Total 2070 care has been given to the planning of the most complete arrangement for psychological research, in the equipment of laboratories and experi- Lawrence Scientific School. ment-rooms, in studies and class-rooms. Fourth year 89 It is thus seen that under one roof Harvard has now assembled depart- Third year 102 ments closely bound together, and has provided generous and splendid Second year 139 First year 113 accommodations for a great work whose results are immeasurable. Prof. Special 112 Münsterberg in a speech at the Emerson Centenary at Concord, in May, L.S.S. Total 555 1903, said: "We want a spacious, noble, monumental hall. But we know also that the value of this memorial gift lies not in its walls and Graduate School. roof, but in the kind of work which will develop within those walls. It Resident 374 Non-Resident 12 will be a true Emerson Memorial only if the words and work in that hall become help and guidance, wisdom and inspiration for new and new Graduate School Total 386 generations of Harvard Men." Total Arts and Sciences 3011 2 A letter from Prof. Royce was read at the same meeting, in which Royce he said "That the founding of this new building may mean the begin- Divinity. Graduates 14 ning of a new life for philosophical study in our country, and the dawn- Third year 7 ing of a new day for the interests of higher thought in our national Second year 4 affairs, is the earnest wish of your absent colleague." First year 7 Special 17 Jamss Prof. James, in an address at this centenary celebration, also said : 'Gainst death and all oblivious enmity shall you pace forth, beloved Total Divinity 49 master. As long as our English language lasts, men's hearts will be Law. cheered and their souls strengthened and liberated by the noble and Graduates 3 musical pages with which you have enriched it." With the words in Third year 178 Second year 197 mind of three of the professors who will labor together in this Emerson First year 290 Memorial Hall, the reality and worth of the building is realized for Har- Special 56 vard and for humanity. Law Total 724 Harvard 14601 (1905-06) cl. Magazine [March, 1906.] Varia. 571 Under existing circumstances, and tion, pursued by large numbers of Don philosopher or a psychologist; he was with the information at its disposal, students, or to effect the necessary not a systematic thinker, but he was the Committee on Reports and Reso- economies by reducing the number of more, - a poet, and a prophet many lutions is not prepared to submit any special courses. It does, however, of whose prophecies have already been form of vote, or recommend any spe- cificaction of the Board in this connec- 7/7/07 think that, in view of the statements fulfilled. He was a political, educa- in the report herewith returned, the tional, and religious seer. His writ- tion. None the less, it seems proper question of policy involved should be ings abound in noble ideals of govern- that special attention should be called clearly understood and carefully con- ment and worship, as wellas of manners to the report now returned. It is im- sidered. and morals. He was a genuine New portant and timely as accentuating All of which is respectfully sub- Englander, but also an American in the question of policy involved in the mitted. By order of the Committee, the broadest sense. Hence the Uni- extracts above quoted, to wit whether, CHARLES F. ADAMS, Chairman. versity has found his work and char- as matter of educational policy, it is October 11, 1905. acter eminently fit for commemoration more desirable that the necessary eco- in this institution which was the child nomies should be effected, if economies VARIA of New England Puritanism, and in must be effected, in what may be con- IT President Eliot on Emerson. At this department of this institution. sidered the elementary and fundamen- the dedication of Emerson Hall on Dec. We believe we have given to this Hall tal studies of the University, attended, in the case of the English Department, 1905 27, President Eliot said: the most appropriate New England Philosophy is one of the old, tra- name," by no less than 2131 students or in ditional subjects in a university - one Albert Matthews, '82, sends the the large number of special courses, of the so-called humanities. of which examples could easily be following: cious building, consecrated to this uni- given, attended by but few students, Harvard College LOTTERY, versal subject, is the first on these or, in some cases, by single students grounds to be appropriated to one of 5000 DOLLARS the highest Prize, only. Referring to the experience and the _humanities. We have long had Not two Blanks to a Prize. policy of Yale, under similar circum- department buildings; but they were stances, it has been stated that, of a THE Public are hereby informed, first provided for the new sciences, That the Managers of HARVARD total number of 181 courses, it was and thus far they have been provided COLLEGE LOTTERY, are very desir- there found that 70 were taken by for the exact and natural sciences only. ous the Drawing of said LOTTERY fewer than ten students each 36 by This department of philosophy is the should commence as soon as possible; fewer than five ; 8 by fewer than two first of the old departments to get the they would therefore be glad those and 11 by a single student each only. advantage of a noble building in which who have Subscribed for Tickets would Under these circumstances, the total it is supreme. send for them, and those who intend to number of courses in the Yale pro- "In 1869-70 and again in 1870-71 be Adventurers, would purchase their gram was, as a measure of necessary Ralph Waldo Emerson gave here a Tickets immediately. (From the Bos- retrenchment, reduced from 263 to long course of lectures on the Natu- ton Gazette, Feb. 17, 1774, p. 3/2.) 249, and of the 249 remaining courses ral History of the Intellect.' This IT More than a hundred and twenty- it was stated that "between 50 and 60 was the last prolonged course of lec- five years ago, - to be exact, on Com- would be cut out unless a sufficient tures (35) that he ever gave. Of this mencement Day in 1779, - Harvard number of students elected them to new building one third is occupied by College conferred the Doctorate of make it worth while giving them." a laboratory, in which psychology, in- Laws on Joseph de Valnais. Since The present Committee does not cluding comparative psychology, is then in recent times nothing has been undertake to discuss the question as studied in a truly natural history known about him in this neighborhood. to whether, under conditions exacting method. While his name in the Quinquennial some measure of retrenchment, it is "This is Emerson Hall. We be- Catalogue has been duly starred, no most desirable to impair the efficiency lieve that the name will prove an en- date of death has ever been placed of the fundamental courses of instruc- during one. Not that Emerson was a against it. Mr. Sibley supposed that 906 18 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. February 5th, 1908. [1906] President Charles Eliot, Harvard University, Cambridge. Dear Sir, [1905] gistof ms.Ellis This fall I went over the land owned by the College at Bar Harbor quite thoroughly after the leaves had fallen, with reference to opening out its woods and saving their good trees by Living them oppor- tunity for growth. And with reference also to protecting the woods from and fire making its building site accessible, opening out the view from it which trees now hide. I judged that it would take in the neighborhood of $50 an acre to do what is necessary to accomplish this. There is much dead wood over the whole piece, both fallen and standing, and over por- tions of it the present growth is also thick though low and scrubby. One portion of it would cost more than this proportionately, but need not be done so fully as the rest; this is the steep front upon the sea which never has been cleared at all, unlike the rest which once was cleared although not thoroughly, by Dr Ellis and his sister Only a portion of this frontage however is much in evidence from above, nor would it be dangerous in case of fire. The house site itself, unon the summit of the cliff, should be wholly cleared as well as the space in front of it to the cliff's edge, widening from the house site out so as to show its view. And this will involve considerable cutting at that point. With regard to the question of fire, the Chase woods adjoining the College lot along its length upon the south have never been cleared at 2 all and are full of dead firs and birches, both on the Lound and standing, as well as with a dense and tangled growth of living trees with much dead wood unon them owing to the poverty of the soil. with the College their woods in present condition, fire once started in these adjoining woods in a dry season would inevitably sweep the College piece quite bare of the trees, with a south wind, and the Luquer woods also on beyond. This would destroy the beauty of the cliff and the privacy of places on it for years to cone, the soil being a poor one with much ledge SO that new growth could only be octained with difficulty and slowly. A path is also needed from the new road I built last year to the Dorri house-site by the cliff, upon the College land; the first part of the way is swampy, so that no one now can get across it without difficulty, and the rest is rocky and irregular to the site, so that the way to it is neither clear nor easy though it could easily be made so. The cost of such a path would not be great, and it should be made to follow so far as possible with economy the line a future avenue would naturally take. Then some sin should be put up in the path's entrance from the road, so that the site might become known and be talked of among the building possibilities at Bar Harbor. " is You were thoughtful enough to ask me last summer whether the appro- Dorr priation made for the building of the road opposite the College piece site had been sufficient to pay for the work done. At that time I had not At, P Chilage. got my bills all in for the road-building but when I had and came to Dency calculate out the cost of it I found that the average cost of that section of the road had been such that a fair estimate for the College portion Revinge was $225, or $25 more than the appropriation made me by the College. And afterward, in the late fall, when heavy rains had come, I found it necessary to build a culvert across that section to take care of the water descending from the hill above, which failed to soak away. This 3 culvert, the work and the material for it, cost in the neighborhood of $20 more. I should also be glad to have the College join with Mrs Markoe and myself in a relatively small expenditure to improve the entrance to the right-of-way road that lends to, and past, the College lot and to share with us in the expense of getting the town to make a work of permanent improvement to the town road leading to it. This work has been approved by the road comissioner of the town and will be recommended by him and by the road committee of the board of trade at the annual meeting, and I think that the town will vote to do it. But there will be a certain ex- pense for surveys, etc., necessary to getting the work proposed well planned and done, and properly presented at town meeting, which the town cannot be asked to bear. I have already taken what steps are necessary in the matter until now, and if the work proposed is carried out by the town it will result in giving a much better approach to all the region where the land of the College lies, and lead to its increase in value. with these things in view, and in accordance with your request that I should make suggestion in the matter, I would suggest that the College appropriate for all a sum not to exceed $500. This will accom- plish all that it would be desirable in my judgement to do upon the piece or for its approach, taken in connection with what the rest of us are doing and what the town I think will do. This I think it would be wise however for the College to expend. A year's advance in sale or a thousand dollars added to the price obtained would justify the expendi- ture, and I think that what I suggest would be likely to accomplish more than this in both regards. The cost of clearing the land would lie somewhere between $300 and $350 according to my calculation, supported by that made independently by a man whom I have employed upon such work before and who looked it over for me. In the neighborhood of $45 has 4 been already expended in the completion of the road opposite the College land beyond the appropriation made, though this work I should have done in any case in order to complete the drive and bring it into use. The rest would be spent upon building the path I have suggested to the build- ing site; upon the preliminary surveys, etc., for the work the town is asked to do upon the town road leading to the right of way; and upon the improvement needed to the entrance of the right-of-way itself. I remain Yours truly, George B. dost JOHN JAY CHAPMAN MIDDLE YEARS (1905-1914) not in America but who are willing to sink America where Letters truth is concerned and who have no desire for anything ex- cept truth - truth often which makes us seem cheap and horrid and compels us to admit that we do not know - that we do not know a damned thing about the whole busi- ness - or only one thing, viz., that Europe is ours also - To Owen Wister that is, it is all one concern. To return to the visible. We see 18 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE a marked inferiority in intellectual fibre, in training - in BOSTON, Feb. 15, 1906 our American scholars as compared to Europe. Average for DEAR DAN average we are not in it anywhere. For a good many years I've been here for a week staying with George Dorr past I have asked each specialist I met - 'Now tell me how revisiting the glimpses of the moon - Porcellian, Somerset, we stand in your particular subject' - nowhere. Well, and Tavern, etc. Really I have enjoyed myself. What a world scholarship is a sort of branch of religion - a form of self- it is - of friendship and tie. There are twice as many people sacrifice, a form of worship, an interest in something for its about here that I know and care for - ten times as many - own sake as there are elsewhere all over Yes, I should be sorry to see Roosevelt President of Har- To William James vard because I do not regard it as important to keep Harvard BARRYTOWN, N.Y. May 29, igo6 to the front - in the ordinary sense - that is in numbers, My DEAR JAMES popularity, and general notoriety. This he would probably I have been desperately hoping, and do still, that somehow do - but as an influence on young men he is about the you and Mrs. James will spend a week with us before we all opposite of what we want. He represents, you might say, die. And now if you are getting SO old and contemplate that the reigning vices - glorying in being seen, Hurrah for us, form of suicide - living abroad - I am going to lay wires, Americanism of a magazine variety - (alas, you are not free use influence, and take steps to bring about some sort of from it) - and the settlement of questions by a sloppy emo- reunion soon. tionalism which turns to anger when confronted with world- Why, of course, of course - I wonder how you have stood old, world-deep, and world-near moral alternatives. (Which it so long in the treadmill how you have kept free from tendency I must say you are entirely free from.) In one the shackles of pedagogy, institutional life, Cambridge, way the question who is president of this or that institution Boston, Massachusetts, and the era, which is eating up all is not so important as it seems - for it seems to me that these and transmuting them into corncobs? I have always the importantest things are never taught by institutions at wondered at it and wondered whence you drew the vitality all - but come straight out of individuals and go straight to do it. And now that you have borne the burden and heat into individuals, and these are born and appear in unexpected of the day and shined your light abroad - and it has been a places, and while we are quarrelling over who shall lead real light - and has helped many and steadied much - why, our sewing circle the real leader has been born and died, and now you can be turned out to browse and live peaceably the thing is controlled by him. at Oxford or Florence or where you will, with the respect, But if you descend into the visible and the talkable and gratitude, and affection of everyone who has ever heard your insist on taking an interest in America as distinct from Europe name following you to your grave. - what does America need? It needs men whose minds are I do not suppose that with your active mind and an unim- 224 225 American Antiquities Act of 1906 (16USC431-433) Page 1 of 2 Links to the Past American Antiquities Act of 1906 16 USC 431-433 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person who shall appropriate, excavate, injure, or destroy any historic or prehistoric ruin or monument, or any object of antiquity, situated on lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States, without the permission of the Secretary of the Department of the Government having jurisdiction over the lands on which said antiquities are situated, shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum of not more than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned for a period of not more than ninety days, or shall suffer both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Sec. 2. That the President of the United States is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments, and may reserve as a part thereof parcels of land, the limits of which in all cases shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with proper care and management of the objects to be protected: Provided, That when such objects are situated upon a tract covered by a bona fied unperfected claim or held in private ownership, the tract, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the proper care c d management of the object, may be relinquished to the Government, and the Secret ry of the Interior is hereby authorized to accept the relinquishment of such tracts in behalf of the Government of the United States. Sec. 3. That permits for the examination of ruins, the excavation of archaeological sites, and the gathering of objects of antiquity upon the lands under their respective jurisdictions may be granted by the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, and War to institutions which the may deem properly qualified to conduct such examination, excavation, or gathering, subject to such rules and regulation as they may prescribe: Provided, That the examinations, excavations, and gatherings are undertaken for the benefit of reputable museums, universities, colleges, or other recognized scientific or educational institutions, with a view to increasing the knowledge of such objects, and that the gatherings shall be made for permanent preservation in public museums. Sec. 4. That the Secretaries of the Departments aforesaid shall make and publish from time to time uniform rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act. Approved, June 8, 1906 http://www.cr.nps.gov/local-law/anti1906.htm 2/11/2003 Shoulland 50 STEVE MATHER OF THE NATIONAL PARKS parks. The forests, established for sixteen years by Presidential proclamation, served purposes unequivocally utilitarian (most important: provision of timber and conservation of water sources), while the parks, always established by Congress, served the purpose of all-around uplift, possibly non-utilitarian. After 1890 the people got no more national parks on the main pretext of forest conservation. All the subsequent ones-Mount Rainier in 1899, Crater Lake in 1902, Mesa Verde in 1906, Glacier in 1910, and so on-stood on their merits as handsome or unique scenery. With the Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities, in 1906, came the national monuments. That law was put through by Congressman John F. Lacey, of Iowa, chairman of the House Public Lands Committee, who, as clearly ap- peared from some of the legislation he sponsored, was a bird- lover and a friend of archxology. Lacey successfully promoted Mesa Verde for a national park and, unsuccessfully, the petri- fied forest of Arizona as well as certain prehistoric caves and ruins in New Mexico, which, he felt, would make a Cliff Cities National Park. (His Antiquities Act gave the President the power to set aside by proclamation any lands owned or con- trolled by the United States that contained "historic land- marks, historic or prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest," which for the want of a less sepulchral term would be classified as national monuments. Lacey had the satisfaction of seeing the petrified forest desig- nated one of the first national monuments, but the New Mexico site did not become the Bandelier National Monument until 1916, three years after the Congressman's death. The difference between a national monument and a national park is shadowy -some sites, like the Grand Canyon, have been both-but, in Park a rough way, the monuments are less overpowering and much more miscellaneous, and they emphasize historical or scientific values rather than scenic. The Antiquities Act has had a lot of use: the total of the national monuments is now close to two hundred, ranging in size from fraction-of-an-acre sites, like YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. THE LOWER FAL YELLOWSTONE RIVER CANYON FROM ARTIST ) PHOTOGRAPH BY GRANT, NATIONAL P PUBLIC PARKS AND PLEASURING GROUNDS 51 that of the Father Millet Cross in New York, to the more than two and a half million acres of the Katmai in Alaska. Up to 1933 jurisdiction over them was divided: the Interior Depart- ment had those taken from the public domain, Agriculture those from the national forests, War those from the military reservations. Conservation, as indicated, became important news at the hands of Theodore Roosevelt, who, among other things, called a Conservation Conference of Governors in 1908, This was an expansive, Rooseveltian affair, to which the President invited not only the governors of the states but other public shepherds, along with university presidents, officers of conservation or- ganizations, and assorted notables (excluding, however, John Muir, because of his anti-Pinchot stand on Hetch Hetchy). The conferring fil ed five hundred printed pages, but most of it dealt with the works of Pinchot. The country's natural scenery drew only two mentions, one by J. Horace McEarland (who called it "un natched" and "one of America's greatest re- sources" and declared: "The national parks, all too few in num- ber and extent, cught to be absolutely inviolate. The scenic value of all the national domain yet remaining should be jealously guarde d. We have for a century, Mr. Chair- man, stood actually, if not ostensibly, for an uglier America; let us here and now resolve to stand openly and solidly for a more beautiful Americal") and the second by the Gov- ernor of New York, Charles Evans Hughes (who encouraged YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA. THE YOSEMITE VALLEY the safeguarding of "the beauties of nature both from the FROM THE WAWONA ROAD EAST TUNNEL PORTAL. ruthless hand of the destroyer and from the grasp of selfish in- terest"). From then on, McFarland worked to get a single govern- ment bureau, comparable to the Forest Service, to run the na- tional parks. He made an effective lobbyist. An agile man, expert in a half-dozen fields ranging from rose culture to pho- tography, he kept his conservation instrument, the American Civic Association, of which he was president, down to fighting PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDERSON, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE weight, shaping it to be what he called "a militant organization Dour STEVE MATHER OF THE NATIONAL PARKS PUBLIC PARKS AND PLEASURING GROUNDS 53 52 for the national good, free from red tape and ready to jump." those wonderful manifestations of nature, so startling and so beauti- He himself was always ready to jump. He ran a thriving print- ful that everyone recognizes the obligations of the government to preserve them for the edification and recreation of the people. The ing business in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but it never seemed Yellowstone Park, the Yosemite, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, to hold him back. When conservation needed an advocate any- the Glacier National Park, and the Mount Rainier National Park where, it could count on McFarland. He was ubiquitous and, and others furnish appropriate instances. In only one case have we to the enemies of a more beautiful America, a bugbear. made anything like adequate preparation for the use of a park by He began to show important results in 1910, when the Secre- the public. That case is the Yellowstone National Park. Every con- sideration of patriotism and the love of nature and of beauty and tary of the Interior, Richard A. Ballinger, suggested in his an- of art requires us to expend money enough to bring all these natural nual report to the President the creation of: wonders within easy reach of our people. The first step in that di- rection is the establishment of a responsible bureau, which shall a bureau of national parks and resorts, under the supervision of a competent commissioner, with a suitable force of superintend- take upon itself the burden of supervising the parks and of making recommendations as to the best method of improving their accessi- ents, supervising engineers, and landscape architects, inspectors, park guards, and other employees. The volume and impor- bility and usefulness. tance of the work of the supervision of the national parks and re- McFarland was more direct: "Nowhere in official Washington serves under the Secretary of the Interior has passed beyond the can an inquirer find an office of the national parks or a single stage of satisfactory control by operations carried on with the small desk devoted solely to their management. By passing around force available in the Secretary's office. through three Departments, and consulting clerks who have The following year Dr. McFarland bagged President Taft as a taken on the extra work of doing what they can for the nation's speaker at the American Civic Association's annual convention, playgrounds, it is possible to come at a little information." and Taft took up the park cause, saying: Most of the parks had been given to the Interior Department, Now we have in the United States a great many natural wonders, but, in keeping with the general looseness that afflicted them, and in that lazy way we have in our government of first taking up Agriculture ran a couple, and four of them-Yellowstone, Yo- one thing and then another, we have set aside a number of national semite, Sequoia, and General Grant-policed by U. S. cavalry, parks, of forest reservations covering what ought to be national had a War Department tie-in. An assistant attorney in the In- parks, and what are called "national monuments." We have said to ourselves, "Those cannot get away. We have surrounded them by a terior Department, W. B. Acker, gave whatever time he could Taft law which makes them necessarily government property forever, spare in a crowded schedule to park affairs; he was the closest and we will wait in our own good time to make them useful as parks man to them in Washington. Acker, working part-time, assisted to the people. Since the Interior Department is the 'lumber room' part-time by two or three clerks and accountants from the of the government, into which we put everything that we don't Chief Clerk's office and supplemented by the superintendents know how to classify, and don't know what to do with, we will in the field, constituted the Interior Department's national- just put them under the Secretary of the Interior." That is the con- park administration. Happily, Acker held a high opinion of the dition of the national parks today. parks, and he gave them loving care. His accomplishments And on Feburary 2, 1912 President Taft sent a special message under the pressures of little time, little money, and little help to Congress: would be hard now to overestimate. I earnestly recommend the establishment of a Bureau of National Congress ignored Taft's request for a bureau of national Parks. Such legislation is essential to the proper management of parks, but the demand for. it mounted until, when Lane took Henry James. Boston: Little,Broon, Vol.2 P. loff 1926. 218 LETTERS OF WILLIAM JAMES [1905 say this. Your thought in this article is both important and original, and ought to be worked out in the clearest possible manner. Your thesis needs to be worked out with great care, and as concretely as possible. It is a difficult XV one to put successfully, on account of the vague character 1905-1907 of all its terms. One point you should drive home is that the anti-religious attitudes (Leuba's, Huxley's, Clifford's), The Last Period (II) - Italy and Greece - Philosophical so far as there is any "pathos" in them, obey exactly the Congress in Rome - Stanford University - The same logic. The real crux is when you come to define ob- Earthquake - Resignation of Professorship jectively the ideals to which feeling reacts. "God is a Spirit" darauf geht es an on the last available defini- IN the spring of 1905 an escape from influenza, from Cam- tion of the term Spirit. It may be very abstract. bridge duties, and from correspondents, became impera- at Love to Mrs. Starbuck. Yours always truly, tive. James had long wanted to see Athens with his own eyes, and he sailed on April 3 for a short southern holiday. 904 WM. JAMES. During the journey he wrote letters to almost no one except To F. F. E. Woodbridge. his wife. On his way back from Athens he stopped in Rome [Feb. 22, 1905.] with the purpose of seeing certain young Italian philoso- Heelon DEAR WOODBRIDGE,- Here 's another! But I solemnly phers. A Philosophical Congress was being held there at swear to you that this shall be my very last offense for some the time; and James, though he had originally declined the months to come. This is the "postscriptual" article' of invitation to attend it, inevitably became involved in its garne which I recently wrote you, and I have now cleaned up the proceedings and ended by seizing the occasion to discuss his pure-experience philosophy from all the objections im- theory of consciousness. It was obvious that the appro- mediately in sight. Truly yours, priate language in which to address a full meeting of the WM. JAMES. Congress would be French, and so he shut himself up in "Is Radical Empiricism Solipsistic?" Journal of Philosophy, Psychology; and his hotel and composed "La Notion de Conscience." His Scientific Methods, 1905, vol. II, p. 235. experience in writing this paper threw an instructive side- light on his process of composition. Ordinarily - when he was writing in English - twenty-five sheets of manuscript, written in a large hand and corrected, were a maximum achievement for one day. The address in Rome was not composed in English and then translated, but was written out in French. When he had finished the last lines of one day's work, James found to his astonishment that he had completed and corrected over forty pages of manuscript. f. 20F5 220 LETTERS OF WILLIAM JAMES [1905 Act. 63] TO MRS. JAMES 221 The inhibitions which a habit of careful attention to points silver loving-cup, the graduate students and assistants with of style ordinarily called into play were largely inoperative an inkwell. There were a couple of short speeches, and when he wrote in a language which presented to his mind words were spoken by which he was very much moved. Un- a smaller variety of possible expressions, and thus imposed fortunately there was no record of what was said. limits upon his self-criticism. In the following year (1906), James took leave of absence To Mrs. James. from Harvard in January and accepted an invitation from AMALFI, Mar. 30, 1905. Stanford University to give a course during its spring term. It is good to get something in full measure, without He planned the course as a general introduction to Philos- haggling or stint, and today I have had the picturesque ophy. Had he not been interrupted by the San Francisco ladled out in buckets full, heaped up and running over. I earthquake, he would have rehearsed much of the projected never realized the beauties of this shore, and forget (in my "Introductory Textbook of Philosophy," in which he meant habit of never noticing proper names till I have been there) to outline his metaphysical system. But the earthquake whether you have ever told me of the drive from Sorrento put an end to the Stanford lectures in April, as the reader to this place. Anyhow, I wish that you could have taken will learn more fully. In the ensuing autumn and winter it with me this day. "Thank God for this day!" We (1907), James made the same material the basis of a half- came to Sorrento by steamer, and at 10:30 got away in a year's work with his last Harvard class. carriage, lunching at the half-way village of Positano; In November, 1906, the lectures which compose the and proceeding through Amalfi to Ravello, high up on the volume called "Pragmatism" were written out and de- mountain side, whence back here in time for a 7:15 o'clock livered in November at the Lowell Institute in Boston. In dinner. Practically six hours driving through a scenery of January, 1907, they were repeated at Columbia University, which I had never realized the beauty, or rather the in- and then James published them in the spring. ,terest, from previous descriptions. The lime-stone moun- The time had now come for him to stop regular teaching tains are as strong as anything in Switzerland, though of altogether. He had been continuing to teach, partly in course much smaller. The road, a Cornice affair cut for the deference to the wishes of the College; but it had become most part on the face of cliffs, and crossing little ravines evident that he must have complete freedom to use his (with beaches) on the side of which nestle hamlets, is posi- strength and time for writing when he could write, for tively ferocious in its grandeur, and on the side of it the special lectures, like the series on Pragmatism, when such azure sea, dreaming and blooming like a bed of violets. might serve his ends, and for rest and change when recupera- I did n't look for such Swiss strength, having heard of tion became necessary. So, in February, 1907, he sent his naught but beauty. It seems as if this were a race such resignation to the Harvard Corporation. The last meeting that, when anyone wished to express an emotion of any of his class ended in a way for which he was quite unpre- kind, he went and built a bit of stone-wall and limed it pared. His undergraduate students presented him with a onto the rock, so that now, when they have accumulated, P. 3 of 5 254 LETTERS OF WILLIAM JAMES [1906 Act. 64] TO JOHN JAY CHAPMAN 255 finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much of commerce, so to speak, the healthy philistine, is a mere greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. extract from the potentially realizable individual whom he Pierre Janet discussed lately some cases of pathological represents, and that we all have reservoirs of life to draw impulsion or obsession in what he has called the "psychas- upon, of which we do not dream. The practical problem is thenic" type of individual, bulimia, exaggerated walking, "how to get at them." And the answer varies with the morbid love of feeling pain, and explains the phenomenon individual. Most of us never can, or never do get at them. as based on the underlying sentiment d'incomplétude, as he You have indubitably got at your own deeper levels by the calls it, or sentiment de l'irréel with which these patients are Yoga methods. I hope that what you have gained will habitually afflicted, and which they find is abolished by never again be lost to you. You must keep there! My the violent appeal to some exaggerated activity or other, deeper levels seem very hard to find - I am so rebellious discovered accidentally perhaps, and then used habitually. at all formal and prescriptive methods - a dry and bony I was reminded of his article in reading your descriptions individual, repelling fusion, and avoiding voluntary exer- and prescriptions. May the Yoga practices not be, after tion. No matter, art is long! and qui vivra verra. I shall all, methods of getting at our deeper functional levels? try fasting and again try breathing - discovering perhaps And thus only be substitutes for entirely different crises some individual rhythm that is more tolerable. that may occur in other individuals, religious crises, indig- nation-crises, love-crises, etc.? To John Fay Chapman. What you say of diet is in striking accordance with the CAMBRIDGE, May 18, 1906. views lately made popular by Horace Fletcher - I dare DEAR OLD JACK C.,-Having this minute come into the say you have heard of them. You see I am trying to gen- possession of a new type-writer, what can I do better than eralize the Yoga idea, and redeem it from the pretension express my pride in the same by writing to you?' that, for example, there is something intrinsically holy in I spent last night at George Dorr's and he read me sev- the various grotesque postures of Hatha Yoga. I have eral letters from you, telling me also of your visit, and of spoken with various Hindus, particularly with three last how well you seemed. For years past I have been on the winter, one a Yogi and apostle of Vedanta; one a "Chris- point of writing to you to assure [you] of my continued love tian" of scientific training; one a Bramo-Somaj professor. and to express my commiseration for your poor wife, who The former made great claims of increase of "power," but has had so long to bear the brunt of your temper - you admitted that those who had it could in no way demon- see I have been there already and I know how one's irri- strate it ad oculos, to outsiders. The other two both said tability is exasperated by conditions of nervous prostration that Yoga was less and less frequently practised by the more but now I can write and congratulate you on having intellectual, and that the old-fashioned Guru was becoming recovered, temper and all. (As I write, it bethinks me that quite a rarity. James had not used a type-writer since the time when his eyes troubled him I believe with you, fully, that the so-called "normal man" in the seventies. The machine now had the fascination of a strange toy again. V.2 P. 4 of 5 256 LETTERS OF WILLIAM JAMES [1906 Act. 64] TO JOHN JAY CHAPMAN 257 in a previous letter I have made identical jokes about your I can use my small available store of energy in writing, temper which, I fear, will give Mrs. Chapman a very low which is not only a much more economical way of working opinion of my humoristic resources, and in sooth they are it, but more satisfactory in point of quality, and more small; but we are as God makes us and must not try to be lucrative as well. anything else, so pray condone the silliness and let it pass.) Now, J. C., when are you going to get at writing again? The main thing is that you seem practically to have recov- The world is hungry for your wares. No one touches cer- ered, in spite of everything; and I am heartily glad. tain deep notes of moral truth as you do, and your humor I too am well enough for all practical purposes, but I is köstlich and impayable. You ought to join the band of have to go slow and not try to do too many things in a day. "pragmatistic" or "humanistic" philosophers. I almost Simplification of life and consciousness I find to be the great fear that Barrytown may not yet have begun to be dis- thing, but a hard thing to compass when one lives in city turbed by the rumor of their achievements, the which are conditions. How our dear Sarah Whitman lived in the of the greatest, and seriously I du think that the world of sort of railroad station she made of her life - I confess it a thought is on the eve of a renovation no less important than mystery to me. If I lived at a place called Barrytown, it that contributed by Locke. The leaders of the new move- would probably go better - don't you ever go back to ment are Dewey, Schiller of Oxford, in a sense Bergson of New York to live! Paris, a young Florentine named Papini, and last and least Alice and I had a jovial time at sweet little Stanford worthy, W. J. H. G. Wells ought to be counted in, and if University. It was the simple life in the best sense of the I mistake not G. K. Chesterton as well. I hope you know term. I am glad for once to have been part of the working and love the last-named writer, who seems to me a great machine of California, and a pretty deep part too, as it teller of the truth. His systematic preference for contra- afterwards turned out. The earthquake also was a memor- dictions and paradoxical forms of statement seems to me able bit of experience, and altogether we have found it mind- a mannerism somewhat to be regretted in so wealthy a enlarging and are very glad we ben there. But the whole mind; but that is a blemish from which some of our very intermediate West is awful - a sort of penal doom to have greatest intellects are not altogether free - the philosopher to live there; and in general the result with me of having of Barrytown himself being not wholly exempt. Join us, lived 65 years in America is to make me feel as if I had at O Jack, and in the historic and perspective sense your fame least bought the right to a certain capriciousness, and were will be secure. All future Histories of Philosophy will free now to live for the remainder of my days wherever I print your name. prefer and can make my wife and children consent -- it is But although my love for you is not exhausted, my type- more likely to be in rural than in urban surroundings, and writing energy is. It communicates stiffness and cramps, in the maturer than in the rawrer parts of the world. But both to the body and the mind. Nevertheless I think I the first thing is to get out of the treadmill of teaching, have been doing pretty well for a first attempt, don't you? which I hate and shall resign from next year. After that, He did mistake, as Mr. Chesterton's subsequent utterances showed. V.V Pg. 5 of 5 258 LETTERS OF WILLIAM JAMES [1906 Act. 64] TO H. G. WELLS 259 If you return me a good long letter telling me more par- very attentively, being nothing but an enumeration of all ticularly about the process of your recovery, I will write the details visible in the corner of an old field with a hedge again, even if I have to take a pen to do it, and in any case and ditch. But rightly taken in, it is probably the highest I will do it much better than this time. flight of human genius in the direction of nature-worship Believe me, dear old J. C., with hearty affection and de- I don't see why it should not count as an immortal thing. light at your recovery - all these months I have been on You missed it, when here, in not getting to Keene Valley, the brink of writing to find out how you were - and with where I have just been, and of which the sylvan beauty, very best regards to your wife, whom some day I wish we especially by moonlight, is probably unlike aught that may be permitted to know better. Yours very truly, Europe has to show. Imperishable freshness! WM. JAMES. This is definitely my last year of lecturing, but I wish it Everyone dead! Hodgson, Shaler, James Peirce this winter were my first of non-lecturing. Simplification of the field - to go no further afield! Resserrons les rangs! of duties I find more and more to be the summum bonum for me; and I live in apprehension lest the Avenger should To Henry James. cut me off before I get my message out. Not that the CAMBRIDGE, Sept. 10, 1906. message is particularly needed by the human race, which DEAREST H.,-I got back from the Adirondacks, where can live along perfectly well without any one philosopher; I had spent a fortnight, the night before last, and in three but objectively I hate to leave the volumes I have already or four hours Alice, Aleck and I will be spinning towards published without their logical complement. It is an es- Chocorua, it being now five A.M. Elly [Temple] Hunter thetic tragedy to have a bridge begun, and stopped in the will join us, with Grenville, in a few days; but for the most middle of an arch. part, thank Heaven, we shall be alone till the end of the But I hear Alice stirring upstairs, so I must go up and month. I found two letters from you awaiting me, and finish packing. I hope that you and W. J., Jr., will again two from Bill. They all breathed a spirit of happiness, form a harmonious combination. I hope also that he will and brought a waft of the beautiful European summer with stop painting for a time. He will do all the better, when he them. It has been a beautiful summer here too; and gets home, for having had a fallow interval. now, sad to say, it is counting the last beads of its chaplet Good-bye! and my blessing upon both of you. Your of hot days out - the hot days which are really the abso- ever loving, lutely friendly ones to man - you wish they would get W.J. cooler when you have them, and when they are departed, you wish you could have their exquisite gentleness again. To H. G. Wells. I have just been reading in the volume by Richard Jefferies CHOCORUA, Sept. II, 1906. called the "Life of the Fields" a wonderful rhapsody, "The DEAR MR. WELLS,- I've read your "Two Studies in Pageant of Summer." It needs to be read twice over and Disappointment" in "Harper's Weekly," and must thank country A New Building for Music at Bar Harbor The idea has been rapidly growing among the residents and cottagers at Bar Harbor that a build- ing suitable for the music requirements of the place would add materially to the advantages which it possesses and fill what has become a real artistic need. Year after year a greater number of music-lovers and professional musicians have found their way here until it now seems evident that there exists a definite possibility of making Bar Harbor something more than a mere summer resort, however attractive-of making it in fact, a nucleus that would gather to itself each year whatever might be best in musical and other art. With this ideal in view a committee has been formed to purchase a site for such a building and raise the necessary funds for its erection. The land chosen, on Cromwell Harbor Road, adjoin- ing the grounds of the Kebo Valley Club and Golf Links and within easy reach of the village, has been selected not only for its accessibility and unrivalled mountain view but also for that quiet pose for which the hall is sought commend itself seclusion and freedom from disturbing influences to the committee in charge, to hire the hall at a which are necessary to all artistic accomplish- reasonable price, and it is also hoped that the hall, ment. The committee, composed of Mr. Dorr, when built, will lend itself, through subscriptions Mr. Eno, Mr. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Abbe, and Mrs. made for that purpose, to free concerts and musi- Dimock, have already secured this property, with cal events, within it and upon the lawn outside, the intention of proceeding at once to the erection to which all, townspeople and summer residents of the building in order that it may be completed alike, would be welcome and which should help before another season. It is proposed to form a materially in the musical development of the company whose shares of stock shall be available town, already so successfully initiated, as well as to everyone who may have an interest in such an add to the interest and pleasure of Bar Harbor to undertaking but formed, however, not for the strangers coming to it as a summer resort. purpose of investment but for the furtherance of the musical, artistic and intellectual life of the The architectural plan is to be entrusted to Guy Lowell of Boston, whose ability has already won place and region and of the social life which nat- for him standing among the foremost architects in urally springs from them. And it is the confi- dent anticipation of those who have thus taken the the country and led to his selection by the Corpo- initiative that Bar Harbor can be made to stand ration of Harvard University for its new Hall for for an ideal of artistic achievement which will Philosophy and other buildings of importance. enhance its reputation throughout the whole coun- It is therefore, the earnest hope of those at try. present interested in this endeavor that the enter- It is the aim of the founders to increase not only prise will appeal to all those who are interested the love for music but the desire for whatever is in the ends it has in view and that it may receive excellent in art. For this reason the building will the support essential to its success. It is their be equipped with a stage for theatrical purposes, conviction that the opportunity is one of true pub- illustrated lectures, etc., as well as for concerts lic advantage and capable of far-reaching develop- and recitals. Any person will be able, if the pur- ment. Gay give 1906 Papers. JDRJr. Files D3 B143 [ C. 1906 THE BAR HARBOR ASSOCIATION OF ARTS. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO STOCK. Mrs C. A. B. Abbe $1000. Mr. George S. Bowdoin 500. Miss M. H. Dehon 200. Mrs. Dehon 300. Miss Evelina Palmer 100. Mr. S. W. Beidgham 300. Mr. Charles T. How Henry Lane Eho the SUBSORIPTIONS TO BONDS. Mrs. John L. Narrison 100. 500. $5000. Miss Anna M. Clark 300. Geo. W. Vande: bilt 3000. Mr. W. Butler Duncan 200. 0 Mrs. Warner M. Loeds 100. Mr. John S. Kennedy 500. Mrs. Everet Maoy 100. Mr. William Schieffelin 100. Mrs. Wm. J. Schieffelin, 100. Mrs. Miles B. Carpenter 500. Carola L. Laugier Villars 300. Johnston Livingston 300. omit William Lawrence 100. Miss Anne Thompson 400. A. Howard Hinkle 1000. Adele Smith Bass 100. Emily B. Trevor 300. Miss Emily Trevor 200. Susan W. Dimock 1000. Susan Dimock Hutchinson 1006. Louise W. Milliken 100. Alice M. Draper 100. Lucie How Schelling 100. Dave H. Morris 100. Alive V. Morris 100. Mrs. Helen Seely 300. Jessie Preston Deaper 200. Emily J. Pearson 100. Louis B. McCagg, $100. Mrs. Ruth Dana Draper 100. Henry Lane Eno 3000. x Francis L. Wellman 100. Helen H. Draper, 100. Thomas H. Hubbard 500. Joseph Pulitzer, 1000. Mr. C. S. Wadsworth 309. Anne PierrepontLtiquer 100. Mr. A. C. Gurnee 500. Frederic Amory, 100. Mrs. A. D. V. Ripley 100. Morris K. Jesup 400. John B. How 100. Elizabeth F. Howard 300. Mrs. Mary W. Cooper 100. Miss Julia Cooper 100. Mrs. E. B. N. Worden 100. D. C. Blair 1000. Emily B. Condon 100. Margaret L. V. Shepard 200. Edith S. Fabbri 100. 70 the it. Fabbri 100. Dorothea Fremont-Smith 100. Mrs. B. B. Gurnee 500. Mrs. A. J. Cassatt 500. Mary M. Sherman 200. Gertrude C. Winthrop 100. Juliet M. Livingston 100. John J. Emery 500. Lulu Platt Hunt 300. D. B. Ogden 500. George W. Vanderbilt 1000. George B. Dorr 1000. Edgar Scott 1000 Mildred Barnes 1000. $20,400. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BULLETIN 27 August. 1906. Visiting Committees to the Museum Trustees. The preparation of the final working for 1906. drawings as a basis for specifications and bids for the construction of the building will be immediately A T their annual meeting in January the Trustees entered upon, and it is hoped shortly to publish added to the By-Laws of the Museum an the plans with a description of the proposed article providing for the annual appointment of structure. Visiting Committees entrusted with the duty of examining and reporting upon the various depart- ments of the Museum and branches of its activity. Committee on the Utilization of the In pursuance of this provision several Committees Museum by Schools and Colleges. have since been formed and have held meetings at the Museum to acquaint themselves with its per- THE first meeting of a committee formed to promote the utilization of the Museum by sonnel and its management. These Committees schools and colleges took place at the Museum consist of the following ladies and gentlemen on May 23 last, under the chairmanship of Administration. Library. President Eliot, the other members of the Commit- Laurence Minot, Chairman. C. K. Bolton, Chairman. tee being President Henry Lefavour, vice-chairman, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. Holker Abbott. Mrs. Richard C. Cabot, Miss Frances R. Morse, Arthur F. Estabrook. Mrs. Henry D. Burnham. Miss Anna D. Slocum, Professor P. H. Hanus, A. Lawrence Lowell. Miss Agnes Irwin. Wallace L. Pierce. A. W. Longfellow. Mr. J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr., Temporary Director, Mr. Walter Sargent, and Professor H. Langford Chinese and Japanese Art. Collection of Paintings. Warren. Mr. M. S. Prichard was chosen as Edward J. Holmes, Dr. A. T. Cabot, Chairman. Chairman. Dr. Henry C. Angell. secretary. Mrs. Harold J. Coolidge. Eben D. Jordan. The aim of the Committee is to awaken an in- Robert Treat Paine, 2d. E. C. Tarbell. terest in art among the students of our schools and Mrs. George Tyson F. P. Vinton. colleges through the agency of the collections of the Museum. A sub-committee of five members, Classical Department. Print Department. consisting of Mr. Walter Sargent, chairman, Mrs. E. W. Forbes, Chairman. Francis Bullard, Chairman. Cabot, Miss Morse, Miss Slocum and Professor Mrs. W. Scott Fitz. Gordon Abbott. W. Amory Gardner H. G. Curtis. Hanus, was appointed to carry out the work out- Bela L. Pratt. Mrs. J. C. Phillips. lined. For the coming November the sub-com- Washington B. Thomas. mittee has planned a course of introductory lectures Educational Effort. Textile Collection. by prominent authorities, primarily for teachers, but Stratton D. Brooks, Chairman. Dr. D. W. Ross, Chairman. open to all who wish to attend. Mr. John La Mrs. Allen Curtis. Miss Frances G. Curtis. Farge has consented to speak on the consideration George B. Dorr. Dr. J. W. Elliot. of Painting and the consideration of the Minor Mrs. R. S. Russell. Mrs. Bayard Thayer. Walter Sargent. C. J. H. Woodbury. Arts, Mr. W. P. P. Longfellow on Architecture, while Professor Warren and Mr. Sargent will give Egyptian Department. Western Art (except Textiles). more general addresses. Further information in G. M. Lane, Chairman. T. Coolidge, Jr., Chairman. Mrs. Frederick Ayer. i. Tucker Burr. regard to these lectures and to other plans of the Mrs. T. James Bowlker. Mrs. Lorin F. Deland. Committee will be given in a subsequent Bulletin. Augustus Hemenway. Miss Ellen S. Hooper. The movement thus auspiciously begun is the Joseph Lindon Smith. G. Macomber. outgrowth of an effort initiated five years ago by Miss Anna Boynton Thompson of Thayer Aca- The Plans for the New Building. demy, in cooperation with other ladies, to interest teachers of history in New England in making A T the regular quarterly meeting of the Trus- larger use of the stores of material apt for their tees held on July 19, the Building Commit- purposes which are contained in the museums of tee presented a unanimous report approving a Boston and other New England cities. A peti- design for the new building of the Museum pre- tion for instruction in connection with the Museum pared by the architect, Mr. Guy Lowell, in con- collections, signed by a large number of teachers of sultation with Messrs. E. M. Wheelwright, R. C. history in Massachusetts and neighboring states, Sturgis, and Professor D. Despradelle, upon the was presented to the Trustees of the Museum in basis of sketch plans and elevations furnished him 1901, and met with cordial sympathy. On by the Building Committee in January last as the April 30, 1904, a meeting called by the ladies' result of the cooperation of the architects named, committee was held at the Westminster, and was the Staff of the Museum, and the Committee dur- addressed by President Eliot and other speakers. ing the three years devoted to preliminary study of The active aid of Simmons College was secured the problem. The design was submitted in the soon after its organization, and under its auspices form of plans on the scale of working drawings, courses of lectures to teachers were given in the with elevations, sections and a perspective sketch, Museum during the autumn months of 1904, and and was accepted and adopted as the design for again in the early months of 1905 and in the the new building by a unanimous vote of the present year. The final issue of these efforts has Notz: In the 1907 annual FA., GBD is listed as one of ten members y a friend-loising committee This content downloaded from 137.49.1.13 on Mon, 22 May 2017 14:27:36 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Query Reply in Letter Book 18 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. June 25th, 1906. Dear President Eliot, T send you out with this the atlas of Bar Harbor. My land and that of the University is on sheet eleven; an index-map at the beginning gives the general relations. The atlas-map is very inaccurate in detail however as you will see on comparing it with the surveyor's map. I also send you out another copy of the latter to which I have added certain things that will make the matter clearer to those who have not been over the land itself. For these also I will state here what you and Dr Walcott know already, that the land in question is cut off from the main part of the land owned by the college by a right-of-way road over which owners upon either side have right of passage either way, the right- of-way itself having exit at either end to the Schooner Head Road; that it lies remote from the house-site upon the land, which is above the cliff and at the other end of the lot; and that it rises up too steeply from the right of way, which skirts the base of the hill- side as closely as the ledge allows, to be of use itself for build- ing purposes. It also gives no access to my land above, whose approach is from the other side, but the greater breadth and freedom and better boundary which this land added to my own upon the hill- top would give the latter if this should later on become a building- site make it seem desirable, as I look ahead, for me to get. Wi th regard to the value of the land, it is difficult to es tablish actual market values in the absence of sales and where 2 m the land itself varies 80 much in character and situation with regard to building sites. No land south of Cromwell's Harbor Brook of the neighborhood of the town, that is has been sold for quite a number of years now, the Luquer place itself being the last, I think, with the exception of the land on which McCagg has built on Strawberry Hill, whose price was moderate I believe though what it was I do not now recall. A portion of Mr Luquer's land,adjoining the land owned by the College between the right-of-way and shore and about equal in extent with that, has been in the agents' hands for sale for half a dozen years. at practically what was paid for it originally, but I do not think that he has had an offer for it yet. Mrs Markoe's land, beyond the Chase lot, has also been in the agents' hands for some years past, but all the movement there is in real estate at Bar Harbor at the present time seems to be upon the other side of the town, up the Bay. What I therefore propose is this, that someone in whose knowl- edge, fairness and good judgment we both have confidence should be appointed by us to determine what the value of the piece in question is to the land between the right of way and shore; and also what value the possession of the rights which I offer the College in part exchange - to bring in the town-water supply, sewer pipes, tele- phone, electric-light, or other wires would add to the land the College has to sell. And then that I should pay the College what- ever balance might remain after deducting the latter from the former. For the right-of-way itself carries no other right along with it in Maine, and Mr Luquer and I are accordingly arranging for an exchange of land and rights;and I think that a similar arrangement would 3 be of advantage also to the College. My own selection of a man to arbitrate upon these values would be David Ogden of New York, who has been familiar with that neigh- borhood longer than any other summer resident at Bar Harbor now and is a lawyer of singular fairness and good judgement as well as wide experience with regard to real estate, which is especially his field in legal practice. I should be equally satisfied how- over with Edward Coles of Philadelphia, who has been a resident at Bar Harbor, and familiar with that neighborhood, for the last twenty-five years and in whose judgment as a man of business, as well as fairness, I should also have complete confidence. Either of these men, or any one else whom we might appoint, would naturally consult moreover with the real estate agents at Bar Harbor before rendering a decision. But I do not think that either of these agents are men whose sole judgment could be relied upon in such a matter. Yours sincerely, Georg. B. Dorse June 29, 1906. Dear Mar. Dorri- The Corporation acted favorably on your request for the sale to you of a portion of the Ellis land st Sant°'s Hiff, and left to me the further arrangements for the sale. Accepting your suggestion of No. David Ogden 9.8 a satisfactory person to determine deteils of the transaction, I suggest that you invite him to act, and say that we should be glad to have him consuls local ox- perts if he desires to do so. The Corporation agreed with you that def- inite rights to bring veder-pipes and wires to the balance of the Rilis land might woll ha part of the consideration. I have approved the bill of Mr. 19. W. Hill, and it will shortly he paid by our Eurser. will you kindl let him understand, at your convenience, that his bill dated March € was not received by Harvard University until Suno 269 the matter of the DeWolf Street videning was referred by the Corporation to the Premburnx, Mar. Charles Francis Adams, 2d, 50 Six St., Boston, with full power to take such action as you and he might think expedient, exter that the Commonation did not feel that they could call The in / subscription singe the subscriptions wers 1201 made to them. you and Appletion could devise a and which should include S. statement that the President and Follows have streed to hold the money the apply it -2- as soon as possible to the purpose for which it was given. I going tomorrow to Mount Desert, so that you can communed Leate with me at Asticou. Very timely yours, C. W. E. Mr. George B. Dorr. [David Ogdea C.W.E.] 8/6/1906 The land of Harvard College at 50210 CRIMY, par Member, 87 chown on the survey of E. 7. MANC, asset Certenher, 1905, consists or a st '11) 1894 from Boy on its side and 1638 fent long o 1:15 soucherly side, with a viritan of about 300 Perio itc NAMES aides fronte on Frenchments Res which it runs venterly, partially up the 8 101 of a etern Clone low the hill, as cloan 30 the lay OF the Bana allows, the !Poperly is interveeted be 9 right or way which forms the common means of communication for this lot and a number or others lying to the north and south of it with the 3: Road. This right of way starts at a point about 1120 and a half from the Bar Harbor stemboat where and rune first through the land of Mr. George E. Down, a nistence of 1580 feet; then through the lane of Are. Turgeon, about 300 feet; and then across the college land and continues on, south and west, through the lanus of various other owners until it comes out again on the Schoomerhead Road about three quarters of & Mile from the point where it started. I am imported that the right of way running through Mr. Dorn Laro in a were right of passage for the owners or occupants of the land beyond. and includes no right to construct or maintain water-pipes, sewers, electric or telephone wires, either overhead or understound. The land of Hr. Dorr bounds the college lauds our the west. He owns the ton of the hill and his 1000 extends -?- portion down its essienn class, the repander of which at the place in question below .... to the college. Kr. Done wishes to buy feat the college so much of that land as lies between 1.18 permitt and the centre. of the right of way at the yout of the hill, containing in Darr all about two active, paying payment for it in such portion as may be Renned a fair exchange by a grant of the right to constitute and maintain in and along the right of way water- pipes, sewers and electric light, power, and telephone wires under reasonable conditions. I have been asked by opinion as to whether it would be to the advantage of the college to do thin, and if no by in was terns. 1. The first question which I have examined is as to whether a sale of this plot would result in any inj try to the remaining land of the college I have heen over the land with care, have made Myself Amilian with its character, and have reached the cyindon that the ownership by the college of the lana in question aces not materially enhance the value of 14,3 remaining property and could be sold separately from 1 t without disadvantage. The college love at its water frontage is a ateen and rocky bluff. The house site on it would undoubtedly be found at or near its highest point, which is 160 feet above -3- the level of the sea. THEN DONO about en feet back from the actual shore. from this 10001 the land descents slowly inland and smally honcess flat and marght. covered by a close SPORTS or spall trees with a few good SIZON LU large over among then. This low land continues title the right of way is reached. on the further or venterly side of the wight of way the land rises importately and steeply to the westerly line OF the importive This acclivity, which is rocky and in part precipitous in character, is too steep to permit or the 1198 for building purposes, excent that At the extreme southwestern corner of the property these is a small, compenstively level but very recky piece on which 11 access to it could be obtained in space cottage might concievably be built. Acce. however, could only be had through Mr. Dorr's land, as the hillside caned by the college in too steep to permit of the construction of a road, except at it high grade and prohibitive cost. The survey showe that on the northerly line the two-acre plot in question mises 39 feet in 153 feet, and along its southerly side 89 feet in a distance of 308. The surface is extrepely broken, always rocky and frequently precipitous. Horeover, if such a cottage as I have mentioned were built, it would have no view it could control, owner to trees upon adjoining land, except nearly due exct. where on could only see a strip of water on the -4- there of the Bay and the pastorn shove 10001 whee as that point If Int and The of the cottern 0300 would be 924 feet above 1.00 WRITER Retween 1: active the bay rices the ridge on Hill on the water-front almandy mentioned, the highest elevation of which 18 160 so that the COLLINS .... would be only about 60 feet above this ridge The horizontal distance between these points 21 over 1860 feet. from which it, is obvious that trees or large buildings on the ridge would intercent the nume of vision from the proposed cottage gite nearly :0 the horison. The land proposed to be purchased has Ir. Dorr is, summary therefore, in itself of no come Licenable intrinsic value, considered alone. There is also much unsold land on the neighboring hillsides S.S well as on the 8 one, land which has direct acces. to multife reada and commande vastly superior views to the lot in question, and it seens to 110 fairly contain that with all that land has been taken un there could be no reasonable expectation of finding a purchaser for the lot, in question excent as an included portion of the lot upon the shore. Augut. At present, and for P. number or years past, the line of devolorm nit in BAY Harber has been in other directions and the Dew agles of real estate which have taken place in this district have been at very moderate prices, and I do not think -5- it can be said at present that as any actual miss for such land as thin. Even water fronts on that part of the bay are difficult so dispose of. considering all this, I then time surver walling to sell would act winely If he Titled an offer of one thousand dollars for the two acter in question. If put on the market at that price, it would, I believe, be a very long time before any purchaser other than Mr. Dorr could be four 2. I have next considered whether it would be advisal le for the College to make the and now at that price, or to hold the land for the future developrecist f 3 market for it. In regard to this it must be homes in mind that all the land now owned by the college is out off from any ROCACC to a over highway excent - the might of way I have described, which 18 a right, as T an informed, simply of passage and repre as and includes no rights to construct or maintain severating water-pipes or electric wires. These lattor rights are essen- tial, in my judgment, to the sale of the property. A lot which does not nosses than 19 simply out 0+ the market, I1 it were merely it question of whether the college should accent 2 cank offer of one thousand dollars for the If dee need land, I world any that while the price was sufficient it was not a swi large enough in itself to make it worth the College " while to sell wiless the money were actually needed why by it. Bill 11 Mr. Dorn .100 in exchange a However, managable grant of the nits over the right of worr "Sweet has by the WA mere ! and to obtain for Digits 0702 the right of way where 16 the the 1.00 the of Mes. luquer ) I 00.171den MALL the 923est of 0019 would be to make the college property marketable, which at present It i not. And that such a sale would therefore be very advanta cause +0) the college. It is quite impossible to fix the increment of value which would 3 one to the college land unon the shore, its main 101, from the possession of these rights. It is a question of not bein, it in to sell the property at all wileps they are obtained. There is or course the FOR this the Might no obtained by procuring the town to lay out a highway along the present in This, however, I think, would in the end prove a very expensive business for the college. the which would have to be paid to the persons 3'.086 land is taken would be serious, and would ultimitely to a large extent have 10 be paid by the college itself. %oreover, it would certainly be A detriment to the college land to be intersected by a public road as against its free use of a right of way. After considerable care, I have therefore reached the Creducers exclusion: first, that the value 01 the land which Mr. Damn -7- deaires to buy does not exceed 11,000; seems three it would be winn for the collere to Bell to Mr. Dorn, receiving as sole cunsidcration a proper green, extending from the north line of the college property through lrs. Luquer's and in. Dorr's land to the choonerhead road, of rights to construct and Mail- tain sexers, drains, water-pipes, electric wires for light, power, and telephone purposes, and for such other means either of communication or or transmis ion or power as May hereafter be invented and are extended along the highway of the town. any. 6. 1906 Old Farm, Bar Garbor, Matne. my dear President Elist, M Ogden did not / unuru from New York when he intended and, oway his report- I Now EnClose it; and, with it, a I have not been able until law you and Mu Coles's bagic death on Saturday, been the he stat the our with it which will efflaw. itself I have taken M agdin's refielt; before I sent it on you I also, attach you permission of Showing M Sugue ment in it which he as own of adjoin, land withed to alceilam whether there were any State Similarly placed, height criticin - Heread it thing unit care / said lu thought th Statement fair and accurate_ I am how maki, with him a Smila. Inauguent to that from the braingh Which have Old Farm, Bar Garbor, Maine. been drawn uh by M Diely- I will Send you a colog of these you would like to Lu that Artain things ah different in his Cale hours. - the , lin dulake. Wh Share (iit - the the effects of mutter, any N all of the will Induponed W lew I may Call on him to do to - and ) lulu hall a Smile. obligation toward him - He has also just Shared unit Mrs the expenses of au lue depraid System of Vurface - drainage needlay for format washing mt along the upper portion of The road, which Cost us / don by Contract_ And he has agreed than kid Mrs in its lat. Ju Efacia it down needlay also W the hell it is keeping it in good refair and like a private ablam, which lue forh are aupon that it should be_ Unit regard to the lown Wate suffly, the Company for might a situich main halfway wh the right f Way Some year ago, upon you, guarantee it's Minum 3 Old Farm, Bar Darbor, Maine. annual/playment for the Water uled the life head if anoth house use built beyond 15 it would the directedly effend 16 tay friday be supplied from timid When the /iv don. a hydrais the fight of way av a protection should hephered at the begin of the Woods along which IV new a Serim daugh to the Sugar's have would be to any other built there to hill the Chair laud pleasure lll Cleaud_ With regard to Connection hid the lowu leare down the night way, would lu needed only from such huilding or pasting building as were will fuilt upon the Sea-ward Hotic of the ridge above the Cliff, but as the main portune fall that stopus inland I have Considered it him than photable that Juct Connection would be needed is the falust and partfuilt reference to this land, as Cassbool alla-flow Would ullina by deserved On Sea if Old Farm. Bar Darbor, Maine. our land in The fulure c paid do loan two yea. and party will return Is the of My ago 1000 to get the Won Seave which was this fluided along the than road up W the Capp laid deef through for Connection with a pife Hun , from The fight of way, what it had not planned to do When th Calley land N hill upon, I thing a Hight Change in th hea where it leaves by for tafety but and Convenience- Ifil College Itumed laud - looft info below- - will lu heava, will to mak. the Change Indian If the land's Sale, unit reference pressy by it it Can be down at day thus- I Confide it ( Nential to good approach unit legard to what Mr. April say in his hote, in explanator of list Consult litten of the Old Farm. Bar Garbor, Maine. Min at Ba Harth, fred May N Means, Contine he was right i this Smith Kunolidge of the - men / the efferience they have had_ Blat it liters has hern to little Jalef land here In So long befollowed allo this Ochide f in actual billey was Comu his oun pudgement not Min, that that un all know as nuce about H. that have been Inadi as the agent do themselves, whou fusiness as M. Apdem Lays has ben almout whoth histi different fort life, an the opportunity offend by May only turned to the from a Why W fop's death - they year ago the a had defective I aud do 41 hust_ The fin Mean's judgement as If matter of thin gart Than chaneca How person line left here who has had a wide experience in How - 1 whose Mr experience has lai. however land Transactions / abservation f them is Charles wholl on the other Vid. of rh. lear ruf th. has where investments Old Farm, Bar Garbor. Maine. are_ Think L however, Willing ladinu with him in the his from of View a broad Our and I should would to hade Im do Id Mr. Dealy's judgedult Henda also loof upon as Sound good N ; and a hearly all land handactimi like - alway the Sammun residents in - have passed Hudn his review hi. efferience would be as aid as their ham been, or hearly Lo_ But I rath doubt his wish / set Miss au frimon in a matte out of len Muss line, Weshund also have to Consult professionally if at all__ I do that think of they thing further the Shinle K la Refun night acus the land, we The dud, diann by M. Dear Convining among us unit huach Care r it Would Serm h the Call equally, anit certain Changes... Stugest Find [G.B.Dorr] Bar Harbor, Maine. September 6th, 1900. President Eliot, Northeast Harbor, Maine. My dear President Eliot, I was not able to get away from here and go out west as Trip of I intended. The responsibility, financial and architectural, for Building the Arts. the new Building of Arts has been on my shoulders and I have not felt that I could leave it. And I have also had work connected with my Nurseries and with the development of my land here which made it necessary I should stay. Mr Luquer and I are now just concluding our exchange of land and rights. The deed for the conveyance of rights was one that needed to be thought out carefully and as Mr Deasy has been out of town a good deal the matter lingered on. I am now going up to Boston, in ten or twelve days, to con- clude the work in which I was engaged last winter. Is there any- thing that I can do before I go with regard to the arrangement of matters between myself and Harvard College ? I think that the deed drawn up with Mr Luquer, omitting certain engagements which he undertakes in connection with the extension, etc., of the wires across my land and which would not apply in the case of the College, ? will meet your approval as a basis for my exchange with the college. I submitted it to Mr Ogden in its final form, for friendly criti- cism, and he passed on it as good. He has now gone down to New York but will return for a few days on the 16th. Mrs Markoe and I are now at work on a plan for the completion of the right of way through to the Schoonerhead Road along a new route, made possible by a proposed exchange of land between us, which if carried out according to my plan for it, with certain park-like restrictions upon its horders, will, I think, turn the right of way into a much-used pleasure drive and add materially to the effective value of all the land from Luquer's out that borders on it - or, what is the same thing, to the possibility of selling it. Incidentally, later in the fall I should like to try, through Mr Adams, whether succes ful pressure cannot be brought to bear Asks with by the college as her next neighbor, upon Mrs Chase through Lewis help Dabney, who is her man of business, for the clearance of her land friend from dead and dying trees. In its present condition it constitutes a serious menace from fire to all the lands adjoining it as well as to Mr Luquer's house and even to My own and others. These are the only woods now uncared - for for a long distance and its condition makes it a source of serious possible injury and real danger in a time of drought. to its neighbors. Some time early in October, when I am back in Boston, I should like to come out and have a talk with you as to the most effective HRA method of urgins the construction of the DeWolfe Street Parkway 3 upon the City of Cambridge. I will also confer with Mr Adams about it. Sincerely yours, Story. B. Dars P. S. To tell you something about the new building here of which I spoke, and which I think will interest you in itself and in its site when it is done, I am going to enclose you under separate cover a program I chanced to have left over of a concert given for its benefit by the musicians here, and my own report as president of the Association which is building it, published by the local paper. We hope to use it for horticultural exhibitions, and lectures on that and other subjects, as well as for music and occasional dramatic performances of the more artistic sort. THE 'OTHER SIDE' OF GEORGE B. DORR By Ronald H. Epp Acadia co-founder George B. Dorr, is silhouetted by the view of Frenchman Bay from the veranda of his home Old Farm in Bar Harbor. t is 75 years since the Father of Acadia developed out of his relationship with today still celebrate about Acadia National I died at Old Farm in Bar Harbor on Harvard University's William James, a Park, the "endless vistas," of the island, the August 5, 1944. From that family physician, philosopher, and psychologist. "fragrant worlds of steadfast land and sea," home, George B. Dorr also planned the His revolutionary "Principles of Psychology" "the mountains their silent promises establishment of the Mount Desert Island (1890) substituted the methods of of eternal peace," many wishing that "this Biological Laboratory, the Jackson Lab, laboratory science for faith-based belief in desert was my dwelling place." and Mount Desert Nurseries. In addition an immortal soul. James attracted Dorr to During the first three decades of Old to these scientific pursuits, the emerging his studies because neither dismissed nor Farm, Mary and her husband, Charles, paranormal science developed at Old Farm accepted paranormal claims. entertained academics with paranormal has received little notice. Yet ultimately, it interests. Harvard philosopher Josiah too would play a role in the evolution of the James and Dorr stood apart Royce dedicated his influential book on national park. the religious aspects of philosophy to Mrs. In the late 1870s, his mother, Mary Gray in their commitment to be Dorr. The stature of physiologist Henry Ward Dorr, enlisted the Boston spiritualist strictly scientific-cautiously P. Bowditch prompted author Margaret community in her efforts to contact her perched on the fence of Deland to write in "Golden Yesterdays," "if eldest son William following his death from a man like Dr. Bowditch is interested in this typhus. This was not the first instance of uncertainty. In his memoirs, 'psychic stuff,' perhaps there is something her reliance on the occult, for the death of Dorr expresses the Jamesian in it?" From abroad, English philologist her brother John in 1856 initiated a similar view that such phenomena Frederick W.H. Myers and Australian effort. Consequently, George Dorr matured "are not impossible," attorney Richard Hodgson entered into in a spiritualistic family. When Old Farm their heady dialogues. was completed in 1880, some guests that reminding us that "the realms These were not just maverick scholars, his mother invited were investigators of explored by science are for they formed the core of a new the spirit realm. "extraordinarily complex." professional organization. The Society for These researchers used existing Psychical Research had been established in scientific methods and developed new The James family were frequent guests London and immediately formed in 1884 experiments to analyze premonitions, at the Dorr residence. Their signatures an American branch which Hodgson led apparitions, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, are contained in the "Old Farm House after its establishment by James. At the telepathy, automatic writing, and Book," displayed at the Bar Harbor same time, G. Stanley Hall received the first other paranormal practices. Mary Dorr Historical Society Museum. This historic American doctorate in psychology under favored mediums who "fell asleep" only document contains scores of signatures, the mentorship of James, quickly rising to to awake later apparently as another poems, musical passages, and photographs the presidency of Clark University-where person-a disincarnate spirit control who there is a collection of Dorr-Hall letters on documenting the positive feelings associated manipulated the body of the medium. with the property and the island. More parapsychology. Her surviving son's interest; however; than a dozen poems revel in what people James' argued that the ideal of every 14 Summer Friends \cadia Journal on the w that not a the n heech silon promise of eternal peace Oliver Wendell Homes, August 123/85 Among the many luminaries who visited the Dorr family home, Old Farm, in Bar Harbor, and made entries in its guest book were, from left, President Chester Arthur, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" Julia Ward Howe, and Beatrix Jones (Farrand). Behind those photos is an image of a note and autograph by physician and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. science-that of a coherent and closed lost interest in paranormal research. Perhaps associated with the supernatural beliefs system of truths-necessitates that it was because Clark and Harvard became implicit in psychical research with the phenomena unverifiable within the system the first American academic institutions to satisfactions implicit in efforts begun to must be untrue. Consequently, belief that receive endowments for parapsychology protect the natural world celebrated in all crows are black is not defensible if one studies. The New York Times emphasized poetry by many Old Farm guests and other witnesses the appearance of a white crow. that "the acceptance of [Harvard University] island visitors. Hodgson, James, and Dorr were the funding makes it impossible for any other Julia Ward Howe, her daughter and principle investigators in America of a institution in this country to disregard or to author Laura E. Richards, and others did "white crow," Mrs. Leonora Piper-an Old disrespect this work." not document an awareness of the need Farm guest in 1907. A Boston housewife Dorr contrasted the recurring frustration continued on page 18 with exceptional powers that appeared first in childhood, she had never been to Bar Harbor. Nonetheless, Piper "recalled" the pansies Mary Dorr spread loosely over the Old Farm table as well her delight in riding the bicycle path that her son built at Beaver Pond at the north end of today's Champlain Mountain. Careful scrutiny led James and others to conclude that Piper was not telepathic, and that the source of her claims could not be explained. The "Old Farm Series" of experiments were published by James and to this day are referenced in the psychological literature. James and Dorr stood apart in their commitment to be strictly scientific- cautiously perched on the fence of uncertainty. In his memoirs, Dorr expresses the Jamesian view that such phenomena "are not impossible," reminding us that "the realms explored by science are "extraordinarily complex." In 1905 Hodgson died; five years later Dorr biographer Ronald H. Epp displays the guest book of the Dorr family home Old Farm James, and six years later Josiah Royce. Dorr which is in the collection of the Bar Harbor Historical Society. Friends of Acadia Journal 2010 15 Dorr, continued from page 15 iii PERUVIANLINK ALPACA COLLECTION 44 COTTAGE ST. BAR HARBOR (207) 288-8988 W WALLACE EVENTS LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED 36 Commerce Park Ellsworth ME 04605 (207) 667-6000 Old Farm, the family home of the Dorr family, was located near Compass Harbor in Bar Harbor. It was WALLACEEVENTS.COM torn down in 1949. An online app, available on the Friends of Acadia website, allows users to take a virtual tour of the property. - BAR HARBOR to protect Nature from degradation. It was century away from the otherworldliness THE CAT CAME BACK their host, George Dorr, who understood of spiritualism to the pragmatic yet the growing threats and allied himself with MAINE NOVA SCOTIA still spiritually-inspiring national park- Harvard President Charles W. Eliot to building goal: conserve for the public the establish in 1901 the Hancock County natural splendors of Mount Desert. * Trustees of Public Reservations, the organization that eventually acquired RONALD EPP is the author of "Creating the lands that became Sieur de Monts Acadia National Park, The Biography of THE CAT FERRIES.CA National Monument, the core of George Bucknam Dorr," published in 2016 today's Acadia National Park. by Friends of Acadia. It is available locally In effect, Dorr's priorities shifted and online at Sherman's Book Store and the during the first decade of the 20th- Bar Harbor Bookshop. BOOK PROFILES CREATING ACADIA FOUNDER ACADIA Copies of Creating Acadia National NATIONAL PARK Park, The Biography of George RONALD H. EPP Bucknam Dorr by Ronald Epp can be The Biography of picked up at Sherman's Bookstore in George Bucknam Dorr Bar Harbor, the Bar Harbor Book Shop in Hulls Cove, the Eastern National gift shop at the Acadia National Park Visitor Center (seasonal), and at the Friends of Acadia Office on Cottage Street in Bar Harbor. For links to order a copy online please visit friendsofacadia.org/epp. (Ed.) Gardner lleopphy M.D. glifton, N.J. Augustus ll Kelley, 1973 Orig. 1960. and R.O. Ballou, 150 WILLIAM JAMES ON PSYCHICAL RESEARCH WILLIAM JAMES AND MRS. PIPER 151 tion that originally came thus, quickly ceases to be supernormal. And do you remember the discussion I had with Jack, when he The control G. P. at the outset of his appearance gave supernormal got impatient? You were much amused! information copiously, but within a few years he has degenerated [His recollection of his discussion with Jack, who used, to- into a shadow of his former self, dashing in and quickly out again, gether with M., to be at our house with him a great deal in the with an almost fixed form of greeting. Whatever he may have been old days, is characteristic. I do not myself remember the special at first, he seems to me at last to have "passed on," leaving that occasion to which he refers, but the incident, including my own amusement at the heat they used to get into in their talk, falls amount of impression on the trance-organism's habits. in most naturally with all my own recollections of that time.-D.] I will now cull from the records a number of extracts relative to particular sitters, which show the control's familiarity with their And I remember your mother's calling me out one Sunday morning to see the servants go to church on a buckboard. affairs, calling the first of these extracts [I cannot now recall my mother taking R. H. out to see the 2. The Oldfarm Series servants off on any special day, but he was with us many Sun- Oldfarm is the name of Mr. George B. Dorr's place at Bar Har- days, and I have no doubt that his memory of this is absolutely bor, Maine, where R. H. had often been a summer guest. Mrs. accurate, nor is it anything of which Mrs. Piper might know-it is not the sort of thing that anyone would have spoken to her of, Piper at the time of these sittings had never been at Bar Harbor; or mentioned at the trance. The buckboard is quite correct. It and although she had had many interviews, as well with Mr. Dorr was a big buckboard that carried six people and was the only as with Mr. Dorr's mother before the latter's death, it is unlikely wagon which we had big enough to take all the people up, but its that many of the small veridical details in what follows had been use is not sufficiently universal at Bar Harbor to injure the evi- communicated to her at those interviews. At Mr. Dorr's sitting of dential value of his recollection of it. Again, the people used to go off from the kitchen, which is at an end of the house and can- June 5th, 1906, he asks the R. H.-control for his reminiscences of not be seen from the living rooms or piazzas, SO that his state- Oldfarm: "Do you remember your visits to us there?" ment that my mother called him out to see them off, while a Certainly I do. One night we stayed out too long and your small point, seems to me of value; and the event itself, with the mother got very nervous, do you remember? Minna was there. arrangements that had to be made to make it possible, was quite We stayed out much too long. I felt it was a great breach of enough of a circumstance in our family life to make recollection of it natural.-D.] etiquette but we couldn't help it! I fear as guests we were bad [laughs]. I can see the open fireplace in the living room. [R. H.'s sitting out with "Minna" and others "much too long" [The room is one in which the fireplace, broad and arching, is and "their being bad as guests" seems excellent. In old days they the central feature and would be first thought of in thinking of used often to sit up hopelessly late into the night, when the nights the room.-D.] were pleasant, out on the piazza, talking in the dark; and my (Do you remember where you used to sleep?) mother's half-real and half-humorous exasperation over it, ex- Out in the little house just out across the yard, where we used pressed in her own vivid way, and R. H.'s boyish delight in doing to go and smoke. it and at the scoldings they all used to get for it next day, would naturally be one of the first things he would recall, associated [His recollection also of the little house is good. The only as those evenings were with people whom he cared for.-D.°] mistake in reference to it is in speaking of it as "across the yard," it being in fact across the lawn and garden, upon a hillside op- George B. Dorr.-ED. posite the house. We always kept some rooms in it for our guests, 152 WILLIAM JAMES ON PSYCHICAL RESEARCH WILLIAM JAMES AND MRS. PIPER 153 overflowing into it when the house was full, and R. H. liked it whether he could recall the man's name. He also asks him if he better than the house itself in the greater freedom that it gave remembers the name of the man who lived in the farmhouse, where him. We used to close the house itself early in the evening, and R. H. was very apt then to go up to the cottage with some other R. H. used generally to sleep when staying at Oldfarm. Both of man or men and sit up and smoke and talk-often until quite these names would have been quite familiar to R. H. in life. R. H. late.-D.] cannot give them and makes no attempt to do so. I remember the bathing and the boats and a walk through the [R. H.] Names are the hardest things to remember; it's extraor- woods. dinary but it's true. The scenes of my whole life are laid open [The bathing was one of the incidents at Oldfarm which R. H. to me but names go from one's memory like a dream. I remember would have best remembered. We used to take long walks over walking through the woods there and sitting down and lighting the mountains and go down for a plunge when we returned from my pipe and coming back late to lunch. them. There were often three or four men or more going in to- On June 20th, 1906, at a sitting of Miss Bancroft's, at which Mr. gether when the house was full, and it was something in which Dorr was present, the R. H.-control suddenly writes: R. H. delighted especially, SO that his recollection of this would be apt to be one of his most vivid ones.-D.] Do you remember anything about Celery-root? about Celle root? (Do you remember whether you used to bathe off the beach, or off the rocks?) [To G. D.] (Do you remember anything about it?) [G. B. D. No.] We used to bathe off the rocks; I'm sure of that. I can see the Or was it at your place, George. [Difficulty in reading this whole place. sentence. When read successfully, G. B. D. says "yes."] [I asked the question as to whether we went in off the rocks Your mother used to have it, and I was surprised to see it there or the beach SO as to see if he really had a clear remembrance of as I thought it the best of it. As I thought it the best part of it. it, and I asked it in such a way that my companion at the sitting The best part of it. No one would ever think of this thing I know. thought R. H.'s answer "off the rocks" was probably wrong. My (You mean you think you got this at Mr. Dorr's?) bath-house was not on the beach, but on a point running far out Think! I know. I think so, yes. I think George's mother used into the sea, very bold and rocky, and we used to spring off the to have it and I never got it anywhere but there. rocks into deep water, climbing out by a perpendicular ladder D., who did not at first recall what is meant, then remem- fastened to the ledge.-D.] bers and says "Good." He appends the following note: I can see the little piazza that opened out from your mother's room and the whole beautiful outlook from it, over the water. [We used to have a bunch or two of raw celery, when we grew [That that piazza and its view should be one of R. H.'s strong- our own, placed on the table as a hors d'oeuvre, and served est recollections of the place seems to me most natural, while at whole, with the upper portion of the root left on it in the French the same time the piazza itself, which is not a conspicuous object fashion. This part of the root is very good eating, but it is not in the house from without, and which was only familiar to my usually served in America; and though I have no clear remem- mother's more intimate friends, is not a thing which would occur brance now of special talk about this with R. H., I remember naturally to anyone not familiar with our life down there.-D.] quite well his talking at our table late one fall about these autumn vegetables and think that what is spoken of is this.-D.] Mr. Dorr then asks R. H. if he remembers a walk he once took On July 2nd, 1906, Mr. Dorr had a spoken sitting alone, taking with a young friend from New York, where R. H. outwalked the the shorthand record himself, and asked again for Oldfarm recol- other man and was very triumphant about it afterward, and lections. 154 WILLIAM JAMES ON PSYCHICAL RESEARCH WILLIAM JAMES AND MRS. PIPER 155 (Can you give me any names connected with Bar Harbor, or (But my mother is on your side.) of the mountains there which you used to climb, or of the people Oh yes, I had forgotten. It has troubled me over here, thinking to whose houses you used to go with me, or any others that you I might have left her letters among my papers. So I spoke to can recall?) Piddington about it. No, I can't recall any names now. I will think it over and (I think you must have destroyed them. We didn't find any.) try. I think I must have destroyed them-I hope I did. (Can you recall four sisters whom we used to walk with, and [This "Huldah" episode is treated in a separate section of Part be much with, a number of years ago?) I of this report, see above, p. J.] I remember Minna and Gemma. [Names known to the medium I recall the pansies your mother used to place over the table. I in former trances, but pertinent as a reply.] remember that well-delightful to see them! I can see them now. (I will give you the name of the sisters, and see if that recalls anything to you. It was the Minturns.) [My mother used to have pansies spread loosely over the table- Oh! the Minturns! [repeated eagerly and emphatically]. cloth, when she had people to dine or sup with us at Bar Harbor, There was Gertrude and Robert, a brother named Robert-and where we had a large bed of them planted near the house so that Mary. They lived in New York. I remember them well. [Correct, we could get them freely for this purpose. The custom is not save that Mary should have been May.] common enough to let H.'s statement pass for a happy guess, nor (There was another sister, who used to walk oftenest with us- do I think it likely he would have spoken of it to Mrs. Piper, can you recall her name?) either awake or in trance. It came out quite suddenly also, and [R. H. makes one or two ineffectual attempts, giving wrong with a positiveness which made me feel that it was a true recol- names.] lection, something seen at the moment in a mental picture.-D.] (Now, Hodgson, can't you tell me something about the lady D., endeavoring to extract Bar Harbor names from R. H., you were interested in, whose letters you asked Piddington to again tries to get that of the man who occupied the farmhouse at find?) which R. H. used generally to sleep when at Oldfarm. He was not This was Huldah Densmore. (But there is no Huldah in the family, that I know, nor can we able to give that but gave the name of the gardener, Miller. "It is learn of any. We have asked her sister, and she has never heard possible," Mr. Dorr writes, "that Mrs. Piper may have heard of the name of Huldah.) Miller's name as that of the manager of my plant-nurseries at Bar Wait a moment. Let me think. It is most difficult to get earthly Harbor. I remember I once meant to send her some plants from the memories. They go from one, but I find that they come back to nurseries for her garden, and think it probable they went. It is me as I think of things. She married a -[name of nationality also possible that the name may have come up at the trance in my given correctly]. If you will write to her, you will find I am right. Write to her! own past sittings." (Did you want to marry her?) I remember a beautiful road, a bicycle-road you made, going Yes, I did. And I remember what a disappointment it was to through the woods. me. [A dozen years ago I made a bicycle-road on my own back- (Was she out of sympathy with your work?) land, which ran through the woods beneath a mountain over She wanted me to give it up-it was a subject she did not which we often used to walk. It was a pleasant and familiar care to have to do with. [Correct as to the lady's animus.] feature in our summer life there, and it would naturally be one of (Was it at our house you met her?) the pictures that would come back to R. H. in thinking of the I met her there, at Bar Harbor. Your mother ought to remem- place-like the view from my mother's balcony of which he spoke ber it well. She introduced us to each other. [Correct.-D.] at the former sitting. But it is not a thing of which either he or I 156 WILLIAM JAMES ON PSYCHICAL RESEARCH WILLIAM JAMES AND MRS. PIPER 157 would have spoken to Mrs. Piper, whether in trance or awake. [I used to carry a little canvas bag slung over my shoulder -D.] and a cup in it, when we went on long tramps. This may be what G. B. D. then tries again to get the name of the man who oc- R. H. refers to, though I think that he was rather apt to carry a folding leather cup of his own in his pocket. The whole recol- cupied the farmhouse, describing him to R. H. without mentioning lection is rather vague in my memory, going back a number of his name. years. The picture is a good one of just what used to happen when we were off on our tramps together, though of course what Oh yes, I remember him well-I remember going off with him he describes would be always apt to happen on walks through once fishing-going down the shore in a boat. I remember woods and over mountains. The picture of the little brook we one evening, and it impressed me SO vividly because your mother used to stop and drink at is good-I can see it did not like it, and I felt we had done wrong and hurt her-M. and I were smoking together and we talked too late, and she felt After some talk about the Tavern Club, Australia, and the state it was time to retire- of things in the other world-some of which will be noticed later, [This would be remarkably good if the incident should prove R. H. goes on as follows: not to have come up already in R. H.'s own sittings after M. died. Do you remember one summer there was a gentleman at your She used to smoke cigarettes occasionally, and was the only per- house who had a violin. I had some interesting talks with him son of the feminine sex whom I now recall as having done SO at about these things, and I liked to hear him play his violin. A our house. Unless in possibly referring to this incident to her little gentleman- remember him very well. "spirit" at trances, after M. died, Hodgson would have been most unlikely to speak of it to others-certainly not to Mrs. Piper, [This describes a man named von G., who was an excellent either in trance or awake.-D.] violinist and who also talked interestingly on psychical research matters, in which he professed to have some faculty. As R. H. (Do you remember where you went with John Rich when you himself was also fond of the violin, it seems natural that some went fishing with him-Oh I forgot! I did not mean to give you memory of von G. should stand out now. That Mrs. Piper should his name!) have any knowledge of this gentleman seems most improbable. John Rich, John, that is his name! But I am sorry you gave -D.] it to me too-it might have come to me. We got a boat and went over to an island. Coming back we had some difficulty in getting My earthly memories come only in fragments. I remember our fish in. We had poor luck in catching them, and then we lost quite well this little gentleman and how interested I was in talk- them. Ask him, he will remember it, I think. ing with him about psychics, and in his instrument as well. I remember a man Royce visiting you. [R. H.'s recollection of going off with Rich seems to be good, as I think it over. That he should go off with Rich only and [Professor Royce says that he has been at Oldfarm along with neither alone nor with me or other guests, is exactly what hap- Hodgson, but adds that that might be a natural association in pened-and yet not what might have been expected to happen. Mrs. Piper's mind, since he thinks that the only time he ever saw His going to an island is descriptive also.-D.] her was at the Dorrs' in Boston.] This is, I think, the whole of the matter relative to Oldfarm Do you remember what you used to put over your back that had a cup in it? And there was a little brook where we used to which the R. H.-control has given. The number of items mentioned stop and drink. And then I used to stop and light my pipe-the is not great, and some inability to answer questions appears. But whole scene is as vivid to me! If I could only express it to you! there are almost no mistakes of fact, and it is hardly possible that 158 WILLIAM JAMES ON PSYCHICAL RESEARCH WILLIAM JAMES AND MRS. PIPER 159 all the veridical points should have been known to Mrs. Piper First rate. normally. Some of them indeed were likely a priori; others may have (I can scarcely speak to you.) been chance hits; but for the mass, it seems to me that either read- But you must speak to me. ing of Mr. Dorr's mind, or spirit return, are the least improbable (Will you give me some definite message?) Surely I will. I have called and called to you. Do you re- explanations. member what I said to you about coming here if I got a chance? The fewness of the items may seem strange to some critics. But (Yes, I do.) if we assume a spirit to be actually there, trying to reach us, and I wish you to pay attention to me. [The sitter and Mr. Dorr if at the same time we imagine that his situation with regard to were together trying to decipher the script.] Do you remember the transaction is similar to our own, the surprise vanishes. I have how I used to talk about this subject, evenings? You know what been struck over and over again, both when at sittings myself and you said about my writing-I think I am getting on first rate. when reading the records, at the paralyzing effect on one's ready [Everything accurate SO far! Miss B. can herself write auto- wit and conversational flow, which the strangeness of the condi- matically, and since R. H.'s departure, has thought that he might have been influencing her subconsciousness in that and other tions brings with it. Constraint and numbness take the place of ways. The words "I have called," etc., she interprets in this sense. genial expansiveness. We "don't know what to say," and it may also Rector, however, already knew of her automatic writing.-W. J.] be so "on the other side." Few persons, I fancy, if suddenly chal- lenged to prove their identity through the telephone, would quickly Do you remember what a good time we had at Head? I am so glad I went. Do you remember a little talk we had about produce a large number of facts appropriate to the purpose. They the lights and satellites? Do you remember how interested you would be more perplexed, and waste more time than they imagine. were? Do you remember what I used to say about returning if I I next pass to what I will call got over here first? (Yes, I remember all that.) 3. The Owl's Head Series [Accurate again. The "Head" must mean Owl's Head, where Owl's Head was the name of the summer place of Miss Margaret during two successive summers Hodgson had visited the sitter, Bancroft, overlooking Rockland Harbor, in Maine, where Mrs. and been supremely happy. The "lights" refer to the lights of Piper had never been. R. H. had very greatly enjoyed visits which Rockland, across the bay, of which he greatly admired the effect, he had made there on two successive summers. Miss Bancroft had and at night on the piazza he had often spoken about the planets and stars, and the question of their habitation.-M. B. Superscript(1) been a sitter of Mrs. Piper's and was a convert to spiritism, with some degree of "psychic" susceptibility herself. At her first sitting Well, here I am, now fire away, now fire. after Hodgson's death, February 19th, 1906, Mr. Dorr also being (Can you tell me the names of some who were with you there last summer?) present, the following dialogue took place: 10 Remember Miss Wilkinson? I am Hodgson! Speak! Well, well, well, I am delighted to see (No.) you. How are you? You ask me about whom? Not understand. How are the chil- (I am all right. How are you?) dren? [The house had been full of schoolchildren, of whom R.H. was fond.-M B.] 10 Here, as in all the rest of the records reprinted, I omit repetitions and remarks not connected with the recollections. Nothing is omitted, however, which in my eyes might affect the interpretation of what is printed.-W J. 11 Margaret Bancroft.-Ed. 160 WILLIAM JAMES ON PSYCHICAL RESEARCH WILLIAM JAMES AND MRS. PIPER 161 (They are well.) B. can remember nothing definite about a hat, but is inclined to Good! Do you remember the day I walked across to the Moun- interpret the allusion as referring to this incident. The "poem" tain? she conceives to be the verses "It seems as if the wondrous land," (No, I don't remember.) etc., written at Miss Pope's sitting of February 5th. See Part I of Ask Putnam if he and I-My watch stopped. this report, p. 123.-W. J.] [For this reference to a watch-stopping, compare pages 123 On the following day Miss B. had a second sitting, and R. H. and 205 of this report. I suspect some confused memory of a real asked "How is Nellie?" [Nellie is a member of Miss B.'s household, incident to be at the bottom of it.-W. J.] presumably unknown to Mrs. Piper, about whom R. H. always used during his lifetime to inquire.] (Can you not recall something you did at the Head?) On the night of Hodgson's death, Miss B., whom I described That is just what I am trying to do. Don't you remember how above as having "psychic" aptitudes, had received a strong im- I had to laugh at you, laugh on that boat, about that boat? pression of his presence. She now asks: [This last word being wrongly deciphered as "hat," Miss B. asks:] (Yesterday you said you had "called and called" me. When did (Whose hat blew off?) you ever call me?) My hat, do you not remember the day it blew off? Yes, you Just after I passed out I returned to you and saw you resting are not following me very clearly. and came and called to you telling you I was leaving. (I am trying to recall about that hat.) (Did I not answer?) Do you remember fishing? Yes, after a while. (Yes, I remember fishing.) (What did I do?) Capital! Remember about my hat? went into the water. You arose and seemed nervous. I felt I was disturbing you. I (Yes, I think I do.) then left. I should say you did. Oh my! but I am not so stupid as some (Do you not recall another time when I was sure you were I know. I have not forgotten anything. Get my Poem? there and I did something? What did I do at one o'clock, (Yes, and I want to thank you for it.) Christmas morning?) Don't bother about that. I want you to know I am really here I saw you, I heard you speak to me once, yes. I heard you speak and recognize you, and the first-rate time I had at Owl's- to someone, and it looked like a lady. You took something in your Thank you very much. How is Bayley? Certainly first-rate time hand, and I saw you and heard you talking. I had at Owl's. Thank you very much. Owl's. Remember the (Yes, that is true.) jokes I told you? Jsp. Thank you. Remember what I said about I heard you say something about someone being ill, lying in dressing them [or "him?"]? Remember? Oh I do well. the room. [Nellie was ill in my room.-M. B.] (How am I getting along?) (Yes, that is true. I also said something else.) Capital! You are doing well, all you need is experience. I You said it was myself. would like to take a swim! I would like to take a swim. Plunge. (Yes, I said that. Anything else?) [Much incoherence hereabouts. The names Bayley and Jessup I remember seeing the light, and heard you talking to a lady. (Jsp) are correct. Hodgson used to bathe with them off the rocks, [Correct.-M. B.] and Miss B. recalls jokes between them about dressing there. H. (The lady did something after I talked to her.) and they went deep-sea fishing almost daily. One day Dr. B. and You refer to the message, she sat down and wrote a message R. H. went fishing in a gasoline launch, and on their return had for me. [I do not understand what is meant by this, unless it be much riotous laughter about some happenings in the boat. Miss a confused reference to Miss Pope's reception of a message to me 162 WILLIAM JAMES ON PSYCHICAL RESEARCH WILLIAM JAMES AND MRS. PIPER 163 in the sitting of February 5th.-M. B.] [See Part I., p. 123.- here any time, only I wanted to finish my work. And ask him if W. J.12] he remembers what I told him about my getting married. (I don't know anything about it. That's a good test.) [Proves There was nothing more of interest from Hodgson at this sitting. to have been correct.-W. J.] Dr. Bayley, to whom reference was made in connection with Owl's Also ask him if he remembers what I said about the children Head, at Miss Bancroft's first sitting, had two sittings in April, in of my old friend Pilly. which the hearty and jocose mannerisms of R. H. were vividly re- [W. R. N. remembers R. H. telling him of a certain "Pilly," produced; but there was a good deal of confusion, owing to Dr. but forgets about the children.] Bayley's lack of familiarity with the handwriting; and the eviden- No one living could know this but Billy. tial material, so far as the Hodgson-control (whom we are alone I ask if you recall the fishing process. concerned with) went, was comparatively small. One passage was: (Why, Dick, it will be very sad fishing without you.) [R. H.] Get that book I sent you? [R. H. and I had done much deep-sea fishing together, but my (I received the book, right after your death.) suspicion that this was meant may have deflected him from some explanation of the "fishing" process of controls at sittings.-B.] [Hodgson had addressed some books and some cards to be sent to friends as Christmas presents. They were mailed after his I wonder if you remember Miss Nellie. death on December 20th. It should be added that Miss Bancroft (Perfectly.) had at her sitting of February informed Rector that such a book Give her my kindest regards. Got your feet wet! had come to her, and Rector associated her and Doctor Bayley (Tell me more about that, Dick.) as friends.] Do you remember how I put my pipe in the water? Do you Have you seen Billy? [My friend Professor W. R. Newbold. remember my putting my coat on the seat, and my pipe got into the water? Remember ducking? -B.¹³ (Ducking?) (No, have you any word from him?) I said plunge. Ask him if he remembers the day we went to the seashore and (Plunge?) we sat on the beach, and I told him how I hoped to come over Yes! Let's take a plunge. 12 À propos to Miss Bancroft's "psychic" susceptibility, at a sitting on (Yes indeed!) October 17th, 1906, which Mrs. M. had with Mrs. Piper, the following words ALL. were exchanged: (Who was along with us, Dick?) "(Any other messages, Dick?) Jess- I got it in my head. [Dr. Jessup is correct.-B.] "[R. H.] Not for him [the person last spoken of], but tell Margaret it was I who produced that light she saw the other night." Do you remember the Head? Oh I think it was the best sum- The sitter immediately wrote to Miss Margaret Bancroft, with whom she mer I ever had. Best, best, best. Do you remember laugh had recently become acquainted, to ask (not telling her of the message) about Mitchell? Laugh? [This might refer to a very distinct in- whether she had had any special experiences of late. Miss B. answered: "I cident involving a friend named MacDaniel.-B.] Idiosyncrasies had a very curious experience on the morning of the 14th. At four o'clock I [What immediately followed was illegible.] was awakened from a sound sleep, and could feel distinctly the presence of three people in the room. I sat up and was SO attentive that I hardly breathed. On the next day, April 4th, Dr. B. says to Hodgson: About nine feet from the floor there appeared at intervals curious lights, much like search-lights, but softer, and there seemed to be a distinct outline of a (Give me your password if you can today.) figure. This lasted probably from fifteen to twenty minutes when I went into a sound J. Password? I had no less than forty. One was shoeing. Yes, yes, 18 Dr. Bayley.-ED. do you remember? 164 WILLIAM JAMES ON PSYCHICAL RESEARCH WILLIAM JAMES AND MRS. PIPER 165 (Of course I don't remember about your passwords; but you Do you remember reading in the evening? wrote Mrs. Bayley a charade of your own making, and if you can (Well enough.) give the answer to that it will be a splendid test.) Remember the joke I told you about Blats [Blavatsky] Shoo fly, shoo fly? [It runs in my head that these words were and her tricks? [Correct, but matter of common knowledge.] answers to charades propounded last summer, but I can get no (Now, Dick, do you remember some of the words of the song confirmation and may be mistaken.-B.] which we all sang SO much, and which you brought there last (I have the letter with the charade here.) [Puts it into the summer?) medium's hand.] Song? awful! song? Doctor, this is peacemaker, peacemaker. I gave this word in my (It begins "Come, I will sing you.") letter. Shoo fly. Oh yes!-gone out of my head like a shot! (Yes, Dick.) [Miss Bancroft writes: "I have a dim recollection about 'peace- Listen, let me tell you something. Do you remember a little maker.' I feel very sure about 'shoo fly.'"] song I sang to the children which went like this: Little Popsey (I will look it up.) [There were two charades in the letter Wopsey Chickey Biddy Chum all. I am tired. handed to the medium, but the words given answer neither of (Dick, that was splendid, I remember it well.) [Known also them.-B.] to Mrs. Piper.-W. J.] Do you remember anything about that awful cigar and my Do you remember my palming trick? joke about it? [Mrs. Bayley remembers a cigar SO huge that (Yes.) [Known also to Mrs. Piper.-W. J.] neither R. H. nor I would smoke it. He finally broke it up and And how you all seemed to enjoy them? I am getting smoked it in his pipe. This may have been the joke referred to. clearer since I have met you here. It helps in recalling many -B.] things I had almost forgotten. Listen, do you remember my Doc, [This is not R. H.'s usual way of addressing me.-B.] recitation of a Hindoo? that is peacemaker! And to Mrs. B. I felt I said shoo fly. If you (No, I don't remember that.) knew the difficulties I am having, you would smile out loud. Which reads like this: "I think till I'm weary of thinking-" Can you play ball? (Yes, I know that well.) [Known also to Mrs. Piper.-W. J.] (Well, H., neither of us were very active ball-players in the Do you remember my letter to Will, in which I told him of the country.) delight of the place [possibly a misreading for "depth of the Listen, do you remember our late hours? piece"]. (Indeed I do.) [R. H. and I used to sit out on the porch (Who is Will?) smoking to untimely hours.-B.) Will James. Or perhaps I didn't read it to you after all. Got your sleep made up yet? (No, I didn't hear that letter.) [I recall no letter either about (Not quite.) the "place," or about the "piece," but my memory is so bad that Next followed some rather unintelligible as well as illegible that proves nothing. I have heard the "piece"; and think I heard references to skinning fish and bailing a boat. Then: it from Hodgson.-W. J.] Ask Margaret Bancroft if she remembers telling me about Do you remember how we tried to make many words out of you and Mrs. Bayley giving her a watch. I am glad I found her one? after I came over. I think she is perfectly sincere and a light. (Yes.) [Miss Bancroft writes: "I felt badly about accepting the watch, And the fun we had? and consulted Mr. Hodgson about it. He said a number of things (Yes.) [R. H. had enjoyed doing this with some of the ladies about my sensitiveness, and after that I felt all right about the at Owl's Head.-B.] watch. I don't think I told anybody of this interview with Dr. 166 WILLIAM JAMES ON PSYCHICAL RESEARCH WILLIAM JAMES AND MRS. PIPER 167 Hodgson. As regards my 'sincerity,' the last talk I had with him Yes, Ellen's boy and his passing over. was on that very subject. He said he would certainly con- Do you remember-Enid? What I told you about her? And vince Dr. Bayley of my sincerity." The reader knows already that her poems? A scholarship and her poems? Miss Bancroft is a "light."] (I remember all that.) [He had told me a great deal about this niece Enid.-M. B. Mrs. Piper denies knowledge of her On June 20th, 1906, Miss Bancroft had her third sitting. Some existence.-W. J.] days previous to this Mrs. M., an old friend of Hodgson, had taken Listen. I am in the witness boxl I am trying to help you to to her sitting a cross which remained among his effects, and asked the recognize me, R. H.-control for directions concerning its disposition. He had or- Do you remember anything about celery root? [See above, dered it to be sent to Miss Bancroft; and when he appeared to Miss p. 153.] Margaret do you remember the walk through the woods? Bancroft at the sitting a few days later almost his first word was: (Yes, I remember it.) Do you remember "Let us sing of-sing you Get my cross? (Yes, thank you very much. ) Let us sing of a" (Yes, I understand.) A Mascot I send to you. No you do not. No song. (Yes, I know you sent it to me.) (Yes I do. Try and give it to me.) I shall be with you when you are in the cottage. I am but you do not understand. You do not understand at all. (Do you know that I have bought the place?) Of course I do. I understand pretty well what you are about. Let us sing the old song. (You mean the song "Come let us sing"?) [Miss B. had been enabled to buy the land at Owl's Head since Yes. her sittings in the previous February.] (Tell me what it is.) There is more help coming to you to enlarge the house. I am telling you. "Come let us sing the-what would you sing You remember you thought it necessary to have more room. -sing-sing (Yes, I remember very well.) [He taught us a song last summer, "Come I will sing," and the Did you see me in your dream with my trousers rolled up at response was "What will you sing me"; "I will sing you one oh," the bottom? etc. My idea is that he wanted to have me give him the next (I am not sure that I did.) line and probably he would have been able to give me the text I spoke to you and you replied. and perhaps the whole song or part of it, but I did not under- (I have seen you several times in dreams.) stand what he wanted to do.-M. B.] Remember my knock? (When did you knock?) Miss Bancroft had two more sittings, on December 2nd and 3rd, You were sleeping. 1907. On December 2nd Hodgson seemed to be cognizant of cer- (I remember twice when I thought someone knocked my arm.) tain changes in the Owl's Head place, that there was a new wall- But I woke you, I certainly did. [Correct.] paper of yellow color, a new bath-house, a new pier and platform, (Can't you do me a favor by knocking now? ) etc., none of which facts Mrs. Piper was in a way to have known. Not while I keep on speaking. You wish me to knock your arm now, eh? I cannot do SO and keep on speaking. He also showed veridical knowledge of a very private affair be- Do you remember the evening I told you about my sister tween two other people, that had come under Miss Bancroft's ob- Ellen's boy? servation. There was, however, some confusion in this sitting, and (I do not recall it.) R. H. was not "strong." The results were better on December 3rd, 168 WILLIAM JAMES ON PSYCHICAL RESEARCH WILLIAM JAMES AND MRS. PIPER 169 but the evidential parts do not lend themselves well to quotation, would seem necessary to invoke either lucky chance or telepathy, with one exception, as follows: unless one be willing to admit spirit return. I should say that I have (Don't you remember something that happened that you condensed the record considerably, leaving out some matter ir- helped us in?) relevant to Owl's Head memories, some repetitions, and all the talk I remember that one evening- that grew out of slowness in deciphering the script. (What happened that evening?) Dr. Bayley himself wrote me after his sittings: "They are pretty We got a little fire and I helped. Yes. good, and have about convinced me (as evidence added to previous (Yes, that is true.) Put it out the fire I remember it well. experience) that my much loved friend is still about. I had had either (What did you tell us to get before the fire occurred?) four or six sittings, some of them in conjunction with Miss Bancroft, Before the fire? before R. H.'s death. I do not think that Mrs. Piper normally knew (You told us to get something for the house.) me by name, or knew that I was from Philadelphia or that I knew I said you ought to get a - in case of fire pail, yes. Newbold. I realize that the average reader of these records loses [Here the hand drew three parallel horizontal lines, which much in the way of little tricks of expression and personality, might have meant shelves, and beneath them the outline of a subtleties impossible to give an account of in language. As I look vessel with a cover.] over the sittings and realize my own blunders in them, I cannot (What are they for?) always decide who was the more stupid, the communicator, or my- Water pails water pails - yes, fire buckets - fire Yes, I self." did. [He told us in Maine, when we were experimenting with Mrs. 4. Professor Newbold's Sittings A by automatic writing, to get fire buckets and put them The message given to Dr. Bayley for "Billy" (i.e., Professor Wil- up on the shelves, which we did long before the fire occurred. He liam R. Newbold) makes it natural to cite next the experience of warned us of this fire many times, but no one seemed to pay much this other intimate friend of R. H. Professor Newbold had two attention to it but myself.-M. B.] written sittings, on June 27th and July 3rd, 1906, respectively, Mr. (What did you tell us to put on them?) Go on you will find that I am not asleep. Dorr being present both times. On June 27th, after a few words (I never thought you were asleep.) with Rector, Hodgson appears, and the dialogue continues as follows: So much for the Owl's Head record, which, as the reader sees, follows a not incoherent thread of associated facts. Well, well, of all things! Are you really here! I am Hodgson. Few of the items were false, but on the other hand it must be (Hallo, Dick!) remembered that a mind familiar with Hodgson's tastes and habits Hello, Billy, God bless you. might have deduced some of them (swimming and fishing, for (And you, too, though you do not need to have me say it.) I wonder if you remember the last talk we had together- example) a priori by combining the two abstract ideas "Hodgson" (I do remember it, Dick.) and "seaside." Leakages impossible now to follow might also ac- I can recall very well all I said to you that glorious day when count for the medium's knowledge of such items as the names we were watching the waves. [Our last talk was on a splendid Nellie, Jessup, etc., for her connecting Dr. Bayley with "Billy," etc. afternoon of July, 1905, at Nantasket Beach.-N. 4 For the "fire buckets," "watch," "sincerity," and other items, it 14 Professor Newbold.-Ed. Notes 415 were apparently at one time mounted graphical, and literary interest relat- in an album, as may be seen from the ing to these letters will be presented fragments of sheets adhering to mar- with their edition in the forthcoming 6 gins. volume of Slavic studies, as announced 2 As in the case of the Dostoevsky above. manuscript, all details of textual, bio- DMITRY CIZEVSKY The Robbins Library of Philosophy N 1905 Benjamin Rand, A.B. 79, with liberal funds for acquisition, and I Ph.D. '85, Instructor in Philosophy with himself as librarian, he must have 1897-1902, Librarian of the Rob- thought his ideal well on the way to bins Library of Philosophy 1906-33, its entelechy. Overnight the humble saw the publication of the two heavy classroom library for Philosophy, just volumes of his Bibliography of Philos- transferred from Dane Hall, assumed ophy, Psychology, and Cognate Sub- significant stature. jects. But, as he wrote in his class re- The beginnings had parallcled those port of that same year, he regarded of other Department libraries at Har- his task as only half completed: vard. We learn from the Thirteenth My ideal would be to found 'A Philo- Report 1890 of Justin Winsor as Li- sophical Library for the American Con- brarian of Harvard University that tinent' which shall be the counterpart of toward the close of the academic year this "Bibliography of Philosophy.' And 1889/90 'the formation of a class- for such a library what more fitting in- room library in Philosophy was be- stitution could be named than our own gun, and a good number of volumes beloved Alma Mater? And what more have been bought.' The Report for appropriate place in it could be chosen the next year indicates 186 volumes on than the new 'Emerson Hall'? For the the shelves, all 'permanent.' In this attainment of this end I have addressed same year, 1891, William James a printed letter to the Chairman of the Harvard Philosophical Department [then moved his Psychological Laboratory Hugo Münsterberg] in which I have from Lawrence Hall to Dane Hall, in- estimated that $50,000 would be the cost stalling a library of some hundreds of of the forty thousand volumes necessary books. The classroom library of as a minimum for a Continental Philo- Philosophy may well have been in sophical Library. The ideal has been Dane from its establishment, but it is well received. Its realization waits upon not definitely located until the Report 'the sinews of war." for 1898, when the entry is 'Philos- When, a year later, Rand saw a li- ophy (Psychol. Lab.). Dane Hall,' brary established in Emerson Hall, and the total for the combined library given as 431 volumes. The entry re- 1 Report of the Secretary of the Class of mains the same, though with gradually 1879 of Harvard College, 1900-1905 (Bos- ton, 1905), p. 99. increasing totals, until 1905, when 750 V. ? (1956) Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge. Mass., Harvard University Library. 416 Harvard Library Bulletin volumes were moved to Emerson to gists (1912), but he admittedly pre- form the nucleus of the new library. ferred the 'romantic work' of schol- The Social Questions Library in Har- arly research. His summer trips to vard Hall likewise went to Emerson, England and the Continent produced with 1,810 volumes, becoming the The Life, Unpublished Letters, and Social Ethics Library in the process. Philosophic Regimen of Anthony, The two libraries, Philosophy and Earl of Shaftesbury (1900), editions of Social Ethics, shared the same second the correspondence of Bishop Ber- floor in Emerson, but remained ad- keley with Sir John Percival (1914) ministratively distinct. and of John Locke with Edward It was Reginald Chauncey Robbins, Clarke (1927), and an edition of '92, a member of the Visiting Com- Locke's Essay concerning the Under- mittee for the Department of Philos- standing (1931). ophy, who gave actuality to Ben- But from the point of view of his jamin Rand's Platonic Idea. Enthusi- University, Rand's greatest achieve- astically responding to the proposal to ment must always be the building of expand resources for philosophy at Harvard's collections in philosophy. Harvard and at the same time create His acquisitions still form the bulk of a library worthy of the new home of the 5,500 books in Robbins today, and the Department, he donated funds his vigilance in selection is largely rc- that brought immediate accretions of sponsible for the very comprehensive more than 2,500 volumes. This gen- main collection in philosophy in erous support he continued for years Widener, now numbering approxi- as chairman of the Visiting Commit- mately the 40,000 volumes that he tee. Even today from his home in had set as a minimum goal in 1905. California he maintains an active in- By 1924 he was able to write that his terest in the library that so fittingly ideal had 'received a very large meas- bears his name. On its shelves are his ure of fulfillment,' while recognizing several volumes of poetry and his that the Robbins Library in itself had works on aesthetics. not become the 'Philosophical Li- It was also fitting that Benjamin brary for the American Continent' of Rand should have been chosen the his original dream. The Robbins Li- first librarian of the Robbins Library, brary was, he said, 'limited to works a post he held for almost thirty years. solely of classical value.' But Robbins In the large, Edwardian, oak-pancled and Widener together did indeed room that overlooks the Sever Quad- largely provide that counterpart to his rangle, Rand found full opportunity Bibliography of Philosophy that he to exercise his bibliographic lore and had regarded as the other half of his his zest for scholarship. The routine task.2 in Robbins by no means confined him The earlier years of Rand's li- He is perhaps best known for his use- brarianship saw the close of the Great ful compilations of selections, includ Age of philosophy at Harvard. James, ing Modern Classical Philosophers (1908), The Classical Moralists 2 Harvard College Class of 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary. Ninth Report 1929 (Boston, (1909), and The Classical Psycholo- 1929), PP. 430-431. Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Notes 417 Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and the newly formed Department of So- Münsterberg were all frequenters of cial Relations (succeeding that of the Robbins Library. Gifts, both Social Ethics) radically affected the within and without the Department, Robbins Library. With Mr Robbins' helped to swell the Library's holdings. permission something over 3,200 of Other gifts both of books and manu- the more than 8,000 volumes then in scripts, increasing the University's re- Robbins were removed, and divided sources in philosophy generally, went between the Departments of Psychol- to Widener, whence the rarer books ogy and Social Relations. Miss and manuscripts were transferred to Gustafson supervised the transaction, Houghton on the establishment of and, when the purged Robbins Li- that repository in 1942. In addition to brary of Philosophy was finally in other resources, special support for professional order, other hands suc- the Robbins Library came from the ceeded hers. Mark Gibbons was li- Nelson Robinson, Jr, Endowment brarian 1950-51, and James H. Brod- Fund. crick 1951-55- In September 1955 the Rand retired from Robbins in 1933, latter was succeeded by Warren I. check and died the following year. A life- Cikins. Hallis size oil portrait of him hangs in the The Robbins Library is today a Library, and a bequest known as the working library for the Department Benjamin Rand Philosophical Fund of Philosophy, the domain primarily (1935) perpetuates his interest in mat- of its faculty and graduate students, ters philosophical at Harvard. though serving members and students In the year of Rand's retirement, of other faculties as well. Its collec- Psychology was established as a sep- tion of works of 'classical value' in- arate Department, but the psycho- evitably is largely duplicated by the logical books remained in Robbins. main philosophy collection in Wide- Rand was succeeded as librarian by ner, a state of affairs that in no way Dr Louis Harap, later editor of Jew- lessens its value as a convenient center ish Life, who served until 1939- for study and reference. By contin- Thereafter, a series of graduate stu- uing to adapt itself to the changing dents, appointed by the Departments concepts and needs of the field it rep- of Philosophy and Psychology, acted resents, the Robbins Library of Philos- as librarians for short periods of time. ophy should render important service In 1943 Esther L. Gustafson, now a to the Department and to the Uni- member of the Catalogue Department versity for an indefinite future.4 in Widener, came to Robbins, to JAMES H. BRODERICK bring order out of its increasing chaos. Extensive weeding and recataloguing 3 See Edwin R. Boring, 'The Library of the Psychological Laboratories,' HARVARD were carried out. LIBRARY BULLETIN, I (1947), 394-395. Unlike the earlier fission, the divi- I wish to record my thanks to the sion of psychology in 1947 between Editor of the BULLETIN, Mr G. W. Cottrell, for his helpful guidance in the preparation the Department of Psychology and of this note. 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