THE LETTERS OF
WILLIAM JAMES

EDITED BY HIS SON
HENRY JAMES


IN TWO VOLUMES
VOLUME II








THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
BOSTON

Copyright, 1920, by
HENRY JAMES

CONTENTS   XI. 1893-1899 1-52     Turning to Philosophy—A Student's Impressions—Popular Lecturing—Chautauqua.     Letters:— To Dickinson S. Miller 17 To Henry Holt 19 To Henry James 20 To Henry James 20 To Mrs. Henry Whitman 20 To G. H. Howison 22 To Theodore Flournoy 23 To his Daughter 25 To E. L. Godkin 28 To F. W. H. Myers 30 To F. W. H. Myers 32 To Henry Holt 33 To his Class at Radcliffe College 33 To Henry James 34 To Henry James 36 To Benjamin P. Blood 38 To Mrs. James 40 To Miss Rosina H. Emmet 44 To Charles Renouvier 44 To Theodore Flournoy 46 To Dickinson S. Miller 48 To Henry James 51   XII. 1893-1899 (Continued) 53-91     The Will to Believe—Talks to Teachers—Defense of Mental Healers—Excessive Climbing in the Adirondacks.     Letters:— To Theodore Flournoy 53 To Henry W. Rankin 56 To Benjamin P. Blood 58 To Henry James 60 To Miss Ellen Emmet 62 To E. L. Godkin 64 To F. C. S. Schiller

tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">65 To James J. Putnam 66 To James J. Putnam 72 To François Pillon 73 To Mrs. James 75 To G. H. Howison 79 To Henry James 80 To his Son Alexander 81 To Miss Rosina H. Emmet 82 To Dickinson S. Miller 84 To Dickinson S. Miller 86 To Henry Rutgers Marshall 86 To Henry Rutgers Marshall 88 To Mrs. Henry Whitman 88   XIII. 1899-1902 92-170     Two Years of Illness in Europe—Retirement from Active Duty at Harvard—The First and Second Series of the Gifford Lectures.     Letters:— To Miss Pauline Goldmark 95 To Mrs. E. P. Gibbens 96 To William M. Salter 99 To Miss Frances R. Morse 102 To Mrs. Henry Whitman 103 To Thomas Davidson 106 To John C. Gray 108 To Miss Frances R. Morse 109 To Mrs. Glendower Evans 112 To Dickinson S. Miller 115 To Francis Boott 117 To Hugo Münsterberg 119 To G. H. Palmer 120 To Miss Frances R. Morse 124 To his Son Alexander 129 To his Daughter 130 To Miss Frances R. Morse 133 To Miss Frances R. Morse 133 To Josiah Royce 135 To Miss Frances R. Morse 138 To James Sully 140 To Miss Frances R. Morse

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@38091@[email protected]#page_142" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">142 To F. C. S. Schiller 142 To Miss Frances R. Morse 143 To Miss Frances R. Morse 146 To Henry W. Rankin 148 To Charles Eliot Norton 150 To N. S. Shaler 153 To Miss Frances R. Morse 155 To Henry James 159 To E. L. Godkin 159 To E. L. Godkin 161 To Miss Pauline Goldmark 162 To H. N. Gardiner 164 To F. C. S. Schiller 164 To Charles Eliot Norton 166 To Mrs. Henry Whitman 167   XIV. 1902-1905 171-218     The Last Period (I)—Statements of Religious Belief—Philosophical Writing.     Letters:— To Henry L. Higginson 173 To Miss Grace Norton 173 To Miss Frances R. Morse 175 To Henry L. Higginson 176 To Henri Bergson 178 To Mrs. Louis Agassiz 180 To Henry L. Higginson 182 To Henri Bergson 183 To Theodore Flournoy 185 To Henry James 188 To his Daughter 192 To Miss Frances R. Morse 193 To Henry James 195 To Henry W. Rankin 196 To Dickinson S. Miller 197 To Mrs. Henry Whitman 198 To Miss Frances R. Morse 200 To Mrs. Henry Whitman 201 To Henry James 202 To François

Pillon 203 To Henry James 204 To Charles Eliot Norton 206 To L. T. Hobhouse 207 To Edwin D. Starbuck 209 To James Henry Leuba 211 Answers to the Pratt Questionnaire on Religious Belief 212 To Miss Pauline Goldmark 215 To F. C. S. Schiller 216 To F. J. E. Woodbridge 217 To Edwin D. Starbuck 217 To F. J. E. Woodbridge 218   XV. 1905-1907 219-282     The Last Period (II)—Italy and Greece—Philosophical Congress in Rome—Stanford University—The Earthquake—Resignation of Professorship.     Letters:— To Mrs. James 221 To his Daughter 223 To Mrs. James 225 To George Santayana 228 To Mrs. James 229 To Mrs. James 230 To H. G. Wells 230 To Henry L. Higginson 231 To T. S. Perry 232 To Dickinson S. Miller 233 To Dickinson S. Miller 235 To Dickinson S. Miller 237 To Daniel Merriman 238 To Miss Pauline Goldmark 238 To Henry James 239 To Theodore Flournoy 241 To F. C. S. Schiller 245 To Miss Frances R. Morse 247 To Henry James and W. James, Jr. 250 To W. Lutoslawski 252 To John Jay Chapman 255 To Henry James 258 To H. G. Wells

href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@38091@[email protected]#page_259" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">259 To Miss Theodora Sedgwick 260 To his Daughter 262 To Henry James and W. James, Jr. 263 To Moorfield Storey 265 To Theodore Flournoy 266 To Charles A. Strong 268 To F. C. S. Schiller 270 To Clifford W. Beers 273 To William James, Jr. 275 To Henry James 277 To F. C. S. Schiller 280   XVI. 1907-1909 283-332     The Last Period (III)—Hibbert Lectures in Oxford—The Hodgson Report.     Letters:— To Charles Lewis Slattery 287 To Henry L. Higginson 288 To W. Cameron Forbes 288 To F. C. S. Schiller 290 To Henri Bergson 290 To T. S. Perry 294 To Dickinson S. Miller 295 To Miss Pauline Goldmark 296 To W. Jerusalem 297 To Henry James 298 To Theodore Flournoy 300 To Norman Kemp Smith 301 To his Daughter 301 To Henry James 302 To Henry James 303 To Miss Pauline Goldmark 303 To Charles Eliot Norton 306 To Henri Bergson 308 To John Dewey 310 To Theodore Flournoy 310 To Shadworth H. Hodgson 312 To Theodore Flournoy 313 To Henri Bergson 315 To H. G. Wells

align="right">316 To Henry James 317 To T. S. Perry 318 To Hugo Münsterberg 320 To John Jay Chapman 321 To G. H. Palmer 322 To Theodore Flournoy 322 To Miss Theodora Sedgwick 324 To F. C. S. Schiller 325 To Theodore Flournoy 326 To Shadworth H. Hodgson 328 To John Jay Chapman 329 To John Jay Chapman 330 To John Jay Chapman 330 To Dickinson S. Miller 331   XVII. 1910 333-350     Final Months—The End.     Letters:— To Henry L. Higginson 334 To Miss Frances R. Morse 335 To T. S. Perry 335 To François Pillon 336 To Theodore Flournoy 338 To his Daughter 338 To Henry P. Bowditch 341 To François Pillon 342 To Henry Adams 344 To Henry Adams 346 To Henry Adams 347 To Benjamin P. Blood 347 To Theodore Flournoy 349   Appendix I. 353       Three Criticisms for Students. Appendix II. 357       Books by William James. Index 363 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS William James in middle life

Frontispiece "Damn the Absolute": two snapshots of William James and Josiah Royce 135 William James and Henry James posing for a kodak in 1900 161 William James and Henry Clement at the "Putnam Shanty" in the Adirondacks (1907?)    315 Facsimile of Post-card addressed to Henry Adams 347