The Letters of William James, Vol. 1. William James

I'm clean stonied, muddled and beat."

21

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

22

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

23

A horse.

24

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

25

Harvard Advocate, Oct. 1, 1874.

26

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.

27

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

28

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

29

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."

30

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

31

John A. Allen, another of the Brazilian party.

32

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