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Book SynopsisPresents in a critical and scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language
Trade Review“The general public has been deprived of James’s full epistolary record until now. . . . All the more reason to celebrate the present volumes, handsomely produced and extensively and intelligently annotated.”—Peter Brooks,
Bookforum“Rippling through these letters are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the language. [James] was also one of the most entertaining—and prolific—correspondents. . . . These are richly enthralling letters.”—Peter Kemp,
Sunday Times (London)
"The Letters collected in these elegant volumes, edited by Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias, cover periods in which Henry James became Henry James."—Michael Gorra,
Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Symbols and Abbreviations
Chronology
1875
1 November To Henry James Sr., Mary Walsh James, and Family
9 November To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James
18 November To Henry James Sr.
22 November To Whitelaw Reid
1 December To Francis Pharcellus Church or William Conant Church
3 December To Catharine Walsh
3 December To William James
10 December To James Ripley Osgood
20 December To Henry James Sr.
24 December To Alice James
31 December To Elizabeth Boott 1876
11 January To Mary Walsh James
11 January To Charles Eliot Norton
11 January To Thomas Sergeant Perry
14 January To Wendell Phillips Garrison
24, 25 January To Mary Walsh James
[early February 1876] To [Francis Pharcellus Church or William Conant Church]
3 February To William Dean Howells
3 February To Thomas Sergeant Perry
4 February To Francis Pharcellus Church
8 February To William James
22 February To Alice James
29 February To Arthur George Sedgwick
3 March To Francis Pharcellus Church or William Conant Church
14 March To William James
[early spring 1876] To James Ripley Osgood
23 March To Charles Eliot Norton
31 March To Grace Norton
3 April To Elizabeth Boott
4 April To William Dean Howells
11 April To Henry James Sr.
11 April To Whitelaw Reid
23 April To Whitelaw Reid
25 April To William James
1 May To Mary Clarke Mohl
[2 May] To Thomas Sergeant Perry
8 May To Mary Walsh James
24, 25 May To Alice James
25 May To Arthur George Sedgwick
28 May To William Dean Howells
29 May To Henry James Sr.
1 June To Elizabeth Boott
4 June To Thomas Sergeant Perry
[8 or 9 June] To Mary Walsh James
22 June To H. O. Houghton and Company
22 June To William James
[late June or early July] To Elizabeth Boott
3 July To William Dean Howells
4 July To William James
6 July To Arthur George Sedgwick
15 July To William Henry Huntington
21 July To H. O. Houghton and Company
24 July To Alice James
25 July To Whitelaw Reid
29 July To Elizabeth Boott
29 July To William James
5 August To Grace Norton
15 August To Henry Jame Sr.
19 August To Elizabeth Boott
24 August To Mary Walsh James
30 August To Whitelaw Reid
6 September To Alice James
16 September To Henry James Sr.
[25 September] To Elizabeth Boott
27, 28 September To Mary Walsh James
29 September To Katharine Hillard
29 September To Arthur George Sedgwick
10 October To Elizabeth Boott
11 October To Henry James Sr.
13 October To William James
20 October To Louise Chandler Moulton
23 October To William James
24 October To William Dean Howells
11 November To Elizabeth Boott
11 November To Henry James Sr.
24 November To Francis Pharcellus Church
Biographical Register
Genealogies
General Editors’ Note
Works Cited
Index
