The paper arrived in the post on a Thursday in April 1962. It was a copy of the Journal of Symbolic Logic, volume twenty-seven, number three, and it had been sent to James at King's College with a handwritten note from the editor thanking him for his contribution. James had forwarded it to London, care of Ed's flat, and Ed had been sitting with it for three days before he showed it to James. He had wanted to read it first. He had wanted to know, before James saw it, whether it was good enough—w...