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Book SynopsisThis volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 18831884 includes 125 letters, of which 72 are published for the first time, written from January 29, 1884, to November 9, 1884. The letters mark Henry James's confidence and achievements as an internationally important professional writer.
Trade Review“Reading these edited letters is a delight. The transcriptions allow one to read fluidly rather than haltingly, preserving the rhythm and tone of the original communications together with their content. The explanatory notes do a superb job of contextualizing the letters and identifying references and allusions within them. I could not help but admire the astonishing discernment and scholarship manifested in this volume.”—Sarah Wadsworth, professor of English at Marquette University
Table of ContentsThe Complete Letters of Henry James, 18831884, volume 2, contains 125 letters, of which 72 are published for the first time. Each letter is followed by previous publication information or a note that there is no previous publication.
Acknowledgments
Symbols and Abbreviations
Chronology
Errata
1884
January 29 To James Ripley Osgood
January 30 To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands
February 1 To Richard Watson Gilder
February 5 To Alice James
February 5 To Emma Lazarus
February 7 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
February 7 To Edmund Gosse
February 7 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company
February 7 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor
February 9 To Theodore E. Child
February 13 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
February 20 To William James
February 21 To William Dean Howells
February 21 To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward
February 22 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin
February 22;
misdated January To John Addington Symonds
February 23 To Grace Norton
February 26 To Henrietta Reubell
February 29 To Alice James
February 29 To Theodore E. Child
March 3 To William James
March 6 To Thomas Sergeant Perry
March 8 To Theodore E. Child
March 9 To Florence Wilkinson Mathews
March 9 To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands
March 10 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor
March 14 To Edwin Austin Abbey and Alfred Parsons
March 18 To George Du Maurier
March 19 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
March 19 To Theodore E. Child
March 21 To Charles Scribner’s Sons
March 22 To William James
March 26 To William James
March
29;
misdated 20 To Alice James
March 29 To Sir Charles Archer Cook
March 29, 31 To Grace Norton
April 5 To Jane Dalzell Finlay Hill
April 14 To Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord Rosebery
April 16 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
April 16 To Lawrence Barrett
April 16 To Charles Scribner’s Sons
April 16 To Mary and Louisa Lawrence
April 16 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor
April 21 To William James
April 21 To Louisa Lawrence
April 21 To J. Cotter Morison
May 2 To Katharine de Kay Bronson
May 2 To Isabella Stewart Gardner
May 3 To Alice James
May 4 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis
May 6, 7 To Grace Norton
May 7 To James Bryce
May 7 To John Milton Hay
May 12 To Eveleen Tennant Myers
May 13 To Edmund Gosse
May 15 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company
May 16 To Eveleen Tennant Myers
May 20 To Eleanor Mary Sellar
May 22 To Thomas Sergeant Perry
May 23 To Alice Howe Gibbens James
May 23 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor
May 26 To William James
May 28 To James Russell Lowell
June 2 To Elizabeth Boott
June 3 To Charles Eliot Norton
June 5 To Edmund Gosse
June 5 To John Milton Hay
June 6 To James Payn
June 9 To Edmund Gosse
June 10 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
June 12 To George Washburn Smalley
June 17 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin
June 17 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor
June 19 To Alphonse Daudet
June 19 To George Du Maurier
June 21 To Isabella Stewart Gardner
June 24 To Edmund Gosse
June 25 To Sir William Henry Gregory
July 1 To Charles Eliot Norton
July 3 To William Jones Hoppin
July 5 To Jessie Percy Butler Duncan Phipps
July 5 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor
July 12 To Edwin Austin Abbey
July 14 To Sir Edward Bruce Hamley
July 14 To Thomas Wemyss Reid
July 15 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis
July 16 or 23 To Isabella Stewart Gardner
July 18 To Lawrence Barrett
July 18 To Edmund Gosse
July 24 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
July 26 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
July 31 To Edgar Fawcett
July 31 To Richard Watson Gilder
July 31 To William Dean Howells
July 31 To Violet Paget
July 31 To Olivia Brown Walsh
August 1 To Francis Boott
August 2 To Grace Norton
August 5 To Sir
August 15 To James Ripley Osgood
August 21 To Elizabeth Mary Rose-Innes Santley
August 21 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
August 26 To Frederick Macmillan
September 3 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
September 4 To Edmund Gosse
September 15 To Madam
September 16 To George Du Maurier
September 16 To Henrietta Reubell
September 16 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
September 18 To Edmund Gosse
September 26 To Thomas Sergeant Perry
September 26 To Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord Rosebery
September 26 to November 14 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
September 28 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor
October 2, 5 To Katharine Sands Godkin
October 2 To Marcus Bourne Huish
October 2 To Louisa Putnam Loring
October 5 To William James
October 9 To James Russell Lowell
October 21 To Violet Paget
October 31 To William James
November 1 To Henrietta Reubell
November 3 To Grace Norton
November 6 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
November 9 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor
Biographical Register
General Editors’ Note
Works Cited
Index
