In her journals Iris continued to brood on ‘E’s’ paper on the past. In late spring 1948, she wrote in her journal: ‘There is no memory past unsupplemented (any more than there are sense data unsupplemented). There is only the woven texture…the interweaving of pasts of testimony & deduction with one’s own past of memory.’ Poised over the page, she worried about the implications of E’s picture. ‘Problem: to find a theory of historic past wh. doesn’t make it “ghostly”. ’ Then she adds: ‘isn’t it ghostly save to historian?…Much of past is ghostly to me…Parts of my own past may seem ghostly?
