Handwritten letters, postcards, and one manuscript written by William James (1842-1910), an American psychologist and philosopher. This collection begins with a manuscript entitled "On Some Mental Effects of the San Francisco Earthquake" (James and his family were at Stanford University when it happened). Correspondents include cousin Anne Edwards, Professor W. Lutoslawski, Susan Goldmark, Thomas Sergeant Perry, Guy Waring, and others. Topics include James' writing, his health, lecturing and travel, care of the insane, the change in Harvard University's presidency in 1910, etc. These papers are part of the historic psychiatry material in the Menninger Archives.
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