Henry James on Eliot on "a curved ball"

[Joel S. Berson]

I got the following from the underground at the Harvard
Archives.  The page of the James biography has been discussed here
before, but I don['t think anyone has tried to follow up the sources
the (mole?) says James cites.

>         In his 1930 biography of Charles W. Eliot (volume 2, page
> 69), Henry James relays the story of Eliot's disdain for the
> pitcher who delivers a curve ball.
>
>         James cites an October 9, 1883 speech to the Harvard Club
> of San Francisco and an Atlantic Monthly article (LeBaron Russell
> Briggs, November 1929:  600) as his sources.  A quick look at our
> holdings has found neither of these sources, although you are
> welcome to visit the Archives to conduct a more thorough search in
> Eliot's personal papers, presidential records and biographical materials.

Joel

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