{"product_id":"the-complete-letters-of-henry-james-18841886-9781496221124","title":"The Complete Letters of Henry James 18841886","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecipient of the Approved Edition seal from the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions  This volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 18841886 includes 179 letters, 94 published for the first time, written between November 11, 1884, and December 21, 1885. The letters mark Henry James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships old and new, and maximize his income. James details work on midcareer novels The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima as well as on tales that would help to define his career. He reveals his close acquaintance with British politics and politicians. This volume opens with Alice James's arrival in England and concludes with Henry James's plans to leave his flat in Piccadilly for his new address in De Vere Gardens, Kensington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for earlier volumes in The Complete Letters of Henry James series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “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\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “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, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This latest volume of the Complete Letters represents, no less than its forebears, an inestimable contribution to readers hitherto obliged to hunt down James’s letters in various selections or scattered archives, and deserves to be greeted with the same jubilant chorus of praise and gratitude.”—Alicia Rix, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Complete Letters of Henry James, 18841886\u003c\/i\u003e, volume 1, contains 179 letters, of which 94 are published for the first time. Each letter is followed by previous publication information or a note that there is no previous publication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: “Fastened to London,” by Adrian Poole    \u003cbr\u003e Symbols and Abbreviations    \u003cbr\u003e Chronology    \u003cbr\u003e Errata    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1884\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e November 11    To Catharine Walsh    \u003cbr\u003e November 13    To Francis Boott    \u003cbr\u003e November 14    To Mary Smith Mundella    \u003cbr\u003e November 14    To Grace Norton    \u003cbr\u003e November 14    To Thomas Sergeant Perry    \u003cbr\u003e November 15    To Emma Lazarus    \u003cbr\u003e November 17    To Houghton, Mifflin and Company    \u003cbr\u003e November 17    To Catharine Walsh    \u003cbr\u003e November 17    To Sarah Butler Wister    \u003cbr\u003e November 24    To Catharine Walsh    \u003cbr\u003e November 29    To Theodore E. Child    \u003cbr\u003e December 2    To Benjamin Holt Ticknor    \u003cbr\u003e December 3    To Charles Scribner’s Sons    \u003cbr\u003e December 3    To Benjamin Holt Ticknor    \u003cbr\u003e December 4    To William James    \u003cbr\u003e December 4    To Violet Paget    \u003cbr\u003e December 5    To Sidney Colvin    \u003cbr\u003e December 5    To Robert Louis Stevenson    \u003cbr\u003e December 8    To Grace Norton    \u003cbr\u003e December 9    To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward    \u003cbr\u003e December 12    To Thomas Sergeant Perry    \u003cbr\u003e December 13    To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward    \u003cbr\u003e December 20    To Benjamin Holt Ticknor    \u003cbr\u003e December 23    To Catharine Walsh    \u003cbr\u003e December 24    To Frances Mary Peard    \u003cbr\u003e December 26    To Sirs    \u003cbr\u003e December 30    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e December 30    To Theodore E. Child    \u003cbr\u003e December 31    To Henrietta Reubell    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1885\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e January 1    To Benjamin Holt Ticknor    \u003cbr\u003e January 2    To William James    \u003cbr\u003e January 2    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e January 3    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e January 7    To Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones    \u003cbr\u003e January 7    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e January 7    To Violet Paget    \u003cbr\u003e January 8    To William James    \u003cbr\u003e January 9    To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ec. January 1117\u003c\/b\u003e To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands    \u003cbr\u003e January 20    To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward    \u003cbr\u003e January 23    To Elizabeth Boott    \u003cbr\u003e January 23 \u003cb\u003e1885 or 1886\u003c\/b\u003e To Bertha Price Lathbury    \u003cbr\u003e January 24    To Grace Norton    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ec. January 25February 23\u003c\/b\u003e To Elizabeth Boott    \u003cbr\u003e January 25    To Theodore E. Child    \u003cbr\u003e January 27    To Trübner and Company    \u003cbr\u003e January 28    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e January 28    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e January 29    To William James    \u003cbr\u003e January 30    To Benjamin Holt Ticknor    \u003cbr\u003e February 3    To Mary Anderson    \u003cbr\u003e February 3    To George Washburn Smalley    \u003cbr\u003e February 6    To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis    \u003cbr\u003e February 7    To Richard Watson Gilder    \u003cbr\u003e February 7    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e February 14    To William James    \u003cbr\u003e February 15    To William James    \u003cbr\u003e February 16    To Theodore E. Child    \u003cbr\u003e February 21    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e February 24    To Elizabeth Boott    \u003cbr\u003e February 24    To Sir John Forbes Clark    \u003cbr\u003e February 25    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e February 26    To Benjamin Holt Ticknor    \u003cbr\u003e March 3    To Edwin Lawrence Godkin    \u003cbr\u003e March 4    To Grace Norton    \u003cbr\u003e March 4    To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands    \u003cbr\u003e March 9    To Marian “Clover” Hooper Adams    \u003cbr\u003e March 10    To Mary Smith Mundella    \u003cbr\u003e March 20    To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley    \u003cbr\u003e March 21    To Grace Norton    \u003cbr\u003e March 23    To Elizabeth Boott    \u003cbr\u003e March 23    To Charles Scribner’s Sons    \u003cbr\u003e April 10    To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis    \u003cbr\u003e April 13    To Ernest Hartley Coleridge    \u003cbr\u003e April 16    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e April 17    To Jane Dalzell Finlay Hill    \u003cbr\u003e April 18    To James Ripley Osgood    \u003cbr\u003e April 24    To Elizabeth Boott    \u003cbr\u003e April 26    To Jessie Percy Butler Duncan Phipps    \u003cbr\u003e April 28    To Houghton, Mifflin and Company    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e April 20 c. June 20 \u003c\/b\u003e To George Abbot James    \u003cbr\u003e May 4    To Elizabeth Boott    \u003cbr\u003e May 5    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e May 6    To Pembroke College Fellows    \u003cbr\u003e May 6    To Laurence Alma-Tadema    \u003cbr\u003e May 7    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e May 9    To Francis Boott    \u003cbr\u003e May 9    To Grace Norton    \u003cbr\u003e May 10    To Violet Paget    \u003cbr\u003e May 12    To Catharine Walsh    \u003cbr\u003e May 13    To Elizabeth Boott    \u003cbr\u003e May 13    To Theodore E. Child    \u003cbr\u003e May 13    To John Milton Hay    \u003cbr\u003e May 15    To Lucy Lane Clifford    \u003cbr\u003e May 18    To Catharine Walsh    \u003cbr\u003e May 23    To William Dean Howells    \u003cbr\u003e May 25    To Houghton, Mifflin and Company    \u003cbr\u003e May 27    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e May 29    To James Russell Lowell    \u003cbr\u003e May 30    To Theodore E. Child    \u003cbr\u003e June 2    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e June 3    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e June 4    To Emma Lazarus    \u003cbr\u003e June 5    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e June 6    To Janet Hay Lord    \u003cbr\u003e June 6    To Frances Mary Peard    \u003cbr\u003e June 6    To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley    \u003cbr\u003e June 8    To Macmillan and Company    \u003cbr\u003e June 8    To Violet Paget    \u003cbr\u003e June 15    To Elizabeth Boott    \u003cbr\u003e June 15    To Lucy Cohen    \u003cbr\u003e June 15    To Henrietta Reubell    \u003cbr\u003e June 20    To Frances Rollins Morse    \u003cbr\u003e June 24    To Anthony John and Mary Smith Mundella    \u003cbr\u003e June 26    To Benjamin Holt Ticknor    \u003cbr\u003e June 29    To Laura Mary Octavia Tennant Lyttelton    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJuly 1 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Robert de Montesquiou and Edmond de Polignac    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJuly 3 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Florence Boughton    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJuly 5 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Henrietta Reubell    \u003cbr\u003e July 13    To Theodore E. Child    \u003cbr\u003e July 14    To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley    \u003cbr\u003e July 24    To William James    \u003cbr\u003e July 31    To William James    \u003cbr\u003e July 31    To Robert Louis Stevenson    \u003cbr\u003e July 31    To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward    \u003cbr\u003e August 3    To Elizabeth Boott    \u003cbr\u003e August 8    To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis    \u003cbr\u003e August 11    To Lawrence Barrett    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ec. August 14\u003c\/b\u003e    To \u003cb\u003eJane Dalzell Finlay Hill\u003c\/b\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e August 14    To Dr. James John Garth Wilkinson    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAugust 15 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Edgar Fawcett    \u003cbr\u003e August 16    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e August 21    To William James    \u003cbr\u003e August 21    To Robert de Montesquiou    \u003cbr\u003e August 23    To Grace Norton    \u003cbr\u003e August 25    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e August 27    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e August 27    To Benjamin Holt Ticknor    \u003cbr\u003e August 28    To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAugust 30 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Violet Paget    \u003cbr\u003e August 31    To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSeptember 1 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley    \u003cbr\u003e September 2    To Elizabeth Boott    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSeptember 2 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley    \u003cbr\u003e September 9    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e September 9    To Emma Lazarus    \u003cbr\u003e September 10    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e September 10    To Robert Louis Stevenson    \u003cbr\u003e September 13    To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley    \u003cbr\u003e September 15    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e September 18    To Frances Van de Grift Stevenson    \u003cbr\u003e September 22    To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley    \u003cbr\u003e September 24    To Jane Dalzell Finlay Hill    \u003cbr\u003e October 5    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e October 8    To Ellen “Nellie” Epps Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e October 9    To William James    \u003cbr\u003e October 11    To Francis Boott    \u003cbr\u003e October 16    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e October 18    To Theodore E. Child    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOctober 31 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Theodore E. Child    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOctober 31 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Henrietta Reubell    \u003cbr\u003e November 4    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e November 6    To Robert Louis Stevenson    \u003cbr\u003e November 13    To Francis Boott    \u003cbr\u003e November 16    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e November 17    To Sidney Colvin    \u003cbr\u003e November 18    To Henrietta Reubell    \u003cbr\u003e November 20    To Louisa and Mary Lawrence    \u003cbr\u003e November 20    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e November 21    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e November 30    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e December 3    To Sarah Butler Wister    \u003cbr\u003e December 4    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e December 5    To Henrietta Reubell    \u003cbr\u003e December 8    To Robert Louis Stevenson    \u003cbr\u003e December 9    To Emma Lazarus    \u003cbr\u003e December 9    To Grace Norton    \u003cbr\u003e December 19    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDecember 21\u003c\/b\u003e    To Henrietta Reubell    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Biographical Register    \u003cbr\u003e General Editors’ Note    \u003cbr\u003e Works Cited    \u003cbr\u003e Index    ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409231290711,"sku":"9781496221124","price":67.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496221124.jpg?v=1730506060","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-complete-letters-of-henry-james-18841886-9781496221124","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}