ABSTRACT
In the following letter E. B. Holt writes to William James, with whom he was very close, and discusses both personal and professional matters. This letter is written in 1905, early in Holt's career, but late in James's. The letter is of value both in what it can tell contemporary readers about Holt's intellectual position and his temperament at this time, as well as what it can tell them about James's understanding of Holt's position. It seems clear that James has told Holt that his position is compatible with Radical Empiricism, and one can presume that said opinion did not change. The book referred to, Holt's Concept of Consciousness, did not appear until almost a decade after this correspondence, and so contemporary readers cannot know James's opinion of the final work.
