In the first days in New York he saw T.H.  Morgan.  “I just walked in on him and introduced myself baldly, and he is a corker.  A remarkable talker, with a mind like a flash.  I am to see him again.  To-morrow will be a big day for me—­I’ll see Hollingworth, and very probably Thorndike, and I’ll know then something of what I’ll get out of New York.”  Next day:  “Called on Hollingworth to-day.  He gave me some invaluable data and opinions. . . .  To-morrow I see Thorndike.”  And the next day:  “I’m so joyful and excited over Thorndike.  He was so enthusiastic over my work. . . .  He at once had brass-tack ideas.  Said I was right—­that strikes usually started because of small and very human violations of man’s innate dispositions.”

Later he called on Professor W.C.  Mitchell.  “He went into my thesis very fully and is all for it.  Professor Mitchell knows more than any one the importance of psychology to economics and he is all for my study.  Gee, but I get excited after such a session.  I bet I’ll get out a real book, my girl!”

After one week in New York he wrote:  “The trip has paid for itself now, and I’m dead eager to view the time when I begin my writing.”  Later:  “Just got in from a six-hour session with the most important group of employers in New York.  I sat in on a meeting of the Building Trades Board where labor delegates and employers appeared.  After two hours of it (awfully interesting) the Board took me to dinner and we talked labor stuff till ten-thirty.  Gee, it was fine, and I got oceans of stuff.”

Then came Boas, and more visits with Thorndike.  “To-night I put in six hours with Thorndike, and am pleased plum to death. . . .  Under his friendly stimulus I developed a heap of new ideas; and say, wait till I begin writing!  I’ll have ten volumes at the present rate. . . .  This visit with Thorndike was worth the whole trip.” (And in turn Thorndike wrote me:  “The days that he and I spent together in New York talking of these things are one of my finest memories and I appreciate the chance that let me meet him.”) He wrote from the Harvard Club, where Walter Lippmann put him up:  “The Dad is a ‘prominent clubman.’  Just lolled back at lunch, in a room with animals (stuffed) all around the walls, and waiters flying about, and a ceiling up a mile.  Gee!” Later:  “I just had a most wonderful visit with the Director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Dr. Solman, and he is a wiz, a wiz!”

Next day:  “Had a remarkable visit with Dr. Gregory this A.M.  He is one of the greatest psychiatrists in New York and up on balkings, business tension, and the mental effect of monotonous work.  He was so worked up over my explanation of unrest (a mental status) through instinct-balkings other than sex, that he asked if I would consider using his big psychopathic ward as a laboratory field for my own work.  Then he dated me up for a luncheon at which three of the biggest mental specialists in