![]() 2 Since Julia’s Circle had been established at Cambridge House, Stead’s home in Wimbledon, on 24 April 1909, Yeats may be recording the first of many séances he attended there. Stead were widely known throughout Europe. Ames, the dead American woman whose Letters from Julia to William T. Alluding first to a young girl who was ’not a guide’, Yeats then records that ‘a Julia comes – a guide.’ This is probably a reference to Julia A. Yeats first referred to “Leo”, so far as we can determine, in some Notes of a very poor sitting with Mr Feilding, on May 3rd 1909, ‘which contain a “plainly fanciful account of my ‘guides’”’ Everard Feilding, an Honorary Secretary of the Society for Psychical Research, remained a friend for many years and was probably responsible for Yeats’s membership in the Society (from 1913 to 1928). 2 As a result of his continued correspondence with Julia, Stead founded Julia’s Bureau, which was de (.)ĢAlthough several critics have commented on the first appearance of the spirit of Leo Africanus to Yeats and a few have examined the unpublished manuscript of Yeats’s dialogue with him, 1 no one has pointed out either the extent of Yeats’s preoccupation or the significance of his changing conception of Leo.1 The first to discuss the manuscript was Richard Ellmann, in Yeats: The Man and the Masks (New York (.).
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