Editing Charles Sanders Peirce (section)

=== Later life and poverty ===
[[File:Charles S. Peirce house PA1.jpg|thumb|left|Arisbe in 2011]]
[[File:Gravestone Charles Sanders Peirce and Juliette Peirce.jpg|thumb|Charles and Juliette Peirce's grave]]

In 1887, Peirce spent part of his inheritance from his parents to buy {{convert|2000|acre|km2|0}} of rural land near [[Milford, Pennsylvania]], which never yielded an economic return.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|pp=191–192, 217, 270, 318, 321, 337.}}</ref> There he had an 1854 farmhouse remodeled to his design.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|p=13}}</ref> The Peirces named the property "[[Juliette Peirce#Arisbe|Arisbe]]". There they lived with few interruptions for the rest of their lives,<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|pp=369–374}}</ref> Charles writing prolifically, with much of his work remaining unpublished to this day (see [[#Works|Works]]). Living beyond their means soon led to grave financial and legal difficulties.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|p=191}}</ref> Charles spent much of his last two decades unable to afford heat in winter and subsisting on old bread donated by the local baker. Unable to afford new stationery, he wrote on the [[verso]] side of old manuscripts. An outstanding warrant for assault and unpaid debts led to his being a fugitive in New York City for a while.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|p=246}}</ref> Several people, including his brother [[James Mills Peirce]]<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|p=242}}</ref> and his neighbors, relatives of [[Gifford Pinchot]], settled his debts and paid his property taxes and mortgage.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|p=271}}</ref>

Peirce did some scientific and engineering consulting and wrote much for meager pay, mainly encyclopedic dictionary entries, and reviews for ''[[The Nation (U.S. periodical)|The Nation]]'' (with whose editor, [[Wendell Phillips Garrison]], he became friendly). He did translations for the [[Smithsonian Institution]], at its director [[Samuel Langley]]'s instigation. Peirce also did substantial mathematical calculations for Langley's research on powered flight. Hoping to make money, Peirce tried inventing.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|pp=249–255}}</ref> He began but did not complete several books.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|p=371}}</ref> In 1888, President [[Grover Cleveland]] appointed him to the [[Assay Commission]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|p=189}}</ref>

From 1890 on, he had a friend and admirer in Judge Francis C. Russell of Chicago,<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|p=370}}</ref> who introduced Peirce to editor [[Paul Carus]] and owner [[Edward C. Hegeler]] of the pioneering American philosophy journal ''[[The Monist]]'', which eventually published at least 14 articles by Peirce.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|pp=205–206}}</ref> He wrote many texts in [[James Mark Baldwin]]'s ''[[Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography#Peirce's definitions in the Baldwin|Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology]]'' (1901–1905); half of those credited to him appear to have been written actually by [[Christine Ladd-Franklin]] under his supervision.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|pp=374–376}}</ref> He applied in 1902 to the newly formed [[Carnegie Institution]] for a grant to write a systematic book describing his life's work. The application was doomed; his nemesis, Newcomb, served on the Carnegie Institution executive committee, and its president had been president of Johns Hopkins at the time of Peirce's dismissal.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|pp=279–289}}</ref>

The one who did the most to help Peirce in these desperate times was his old friend [[William James]], dedicating his ''Will to Believe'' (1897) to Peirce, and arranging for Peirce to be paid to give two series of lectures at or near Harvard (1898 and 1903).<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|pp=261–264, 290–292, 324}}</ref> Most important, each year from 1907 until James's death in 1910, James wrote to his friends in the Boston intelligentsia to request financial aid for Peirce; the fund continued even after James died. Peirce reciprocated by designating James's eldest son as his heir should Juliette predecease him.<ref>{{Harvnb|Brent|1998|pp=306–307, 315–316}}</ref> It has been believed that this was also why Peirce used "Santiago" ("St. James" in English) as a middle name, but he appeared in print as early as 1890 as Charles Santiago Peirce. (See [[Charles Santiago Sanders Peirce]] for discussion and references).