●   ●   ●    Woodbury the unseen influence behind much of the bogus information Peabody was feeding Clemens, but she had got into direct contact with the latter, arranged a meeting with him at her New York hotel, and—McCrackan became convinced—was giving him her specific “mental” attention. In one of their conversations, Clemens told him how time and again he would be roused out of a sound sleep at night by an “impelling force” which would send him downstairs to his library to dash off abusive letters to “the woman in Concord” in a torment of rage.