Miss Theodate Pope (Effie Brooks Pope)
…e. Theodate Pope booked passage on the Lusitania with her maid Emily Robinson and friend Edwin Friend to gain support for starting their own society for psychical research from friends in England. Both Theodate and Edwin had resigned from the American Society for Psychical Research after the society’s then president, Professor James Hyslop of Columbia University, took back the position of editor of the society’s journal that he had given to Edwin…