ABSTRACT
In December 1875, Henry Sidgwick announced his engagement to Arthur Balfour’s sister, Eleanor Mildred, who had taken part in some of the investigations just described. Some might well say that the mere fact that Frederic Myers thought the investigations worth pursuing shows that intense grief had completely overthrown what little judgment he had left. Sidgwick and Nora Balfour were married in April 1876. This of course made Sidgwick brother-in-law to a future Prime Minister; and through his sister’s marriage to E. W. Benson he was already brother-in-law to a future Archbishop of Canterbury. In the late summer of 1876 Sidgwick and some of his friends had sittings with yet another visiting American, ‘Dr.’ Henry Slade. The Sidgwicks had some ten sittings with him during July, August and early September 1876. Some at least of these sittings were held at Carlton Gardens, and not at Slade’s rooms; but the Sidgwicks none the less strongly suspected him of trickery.
