Part 51

"First term, '61-'62, James, W., entered this term, passed examination on qualitative analysis well."

"Second term, '61-'62, James, W., studied quantitative analysis. Irregular in attendance at laboratory, passed examination on Fownes's Organic Chemistry, mark 85."

"First term, '62-'63, James, W., studied quantitative analysis and was tolerably punctual at recitations till Thanksgiving, when he began an investigation of the effects of different bread-raising materials on the urine. He worked steadily on this until the end of the term, mastering the processes, and studying the effect of yeast on bicarbonate of sodium and bitartrate of potash." The investigation referred to consisted of experiments of which he himself was the subject.

There is no record for the second term of 1862-63.

President Eliot has generously supplied the Editor with a memorandum on William James's connection with the College, from which these, and several statements below, have been drawn.

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

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

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

A horse.

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

Harvard Advocate, Oct. 1, 1874.

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

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

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

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

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

John A. Allen, another of the Brazilian party.

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

Miss Kate Havens of Stamford, Conn., a fellow pensionnaire at Frau Spannenberg's, has kindly supplied a helpful memorandum.

An accompanying drawing presented a telescopic exaggeration of features, which are hardly appropriate to the Christian Strasse.

The notice of Grimm's Unüberwindliche Mächte appeared under the title "A German-American Novel" in the Nation, 1867; vol. V, p. 432.

The Herr Professor was later identified as W. Dilthey.

I send you a thousand kisses.

"When in his grotesque moods [the elder Henry James] maintained that, to a right-minded man, a crowded Cambridge horse-car 'was the nearest approach to Heaven upon earth.'" E. L. Godkin, Life, vol. II, p. 117.

An allusion to a picture in the parlor which had formerly belonged to the Thieses.

A devoted family servant.

A daughter of Henry James, Senior's, English friend J. J. Garth Wilkinson. "Wilky" James had been named after Mr. Wilkinson. See Notes of a Son and Brother, p. 196.

A note-book in which there are many pages of titles, under dates between 1867 and 1872, appears to have been a record of reading; it was not kept systematically and is incomplete. The following entries were made between the date "June 21, '69--M.D."--the date of graduation from the Medical School--and the end of the year 1869. It will be understood that "R 2 M" signified the Revue des deux Mondes. The original entries stand in a column, without punctuation, and occupy two and a half pages. Amplifications are added in brackets:--