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Book SynopsisThis fifteenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James's more than ten thousand letters records James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, and engage timely political and economic issues.
Trade Review"Michael Anesko and Gregory W. Zacharias's achievement amounts to a culmination; they have given us authoritative editions comprising all James’s extant letters, complete with helpful contextual information."—Rafael Walker,
Edith Wharton ReviewPraise for
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878–1880, volumes 1 & 2 “Michael Anesko’s superb introduction to both volumes places James’s letters in these crucial years in the context of James’s literary works and the broader social history in which they were produced. . . . These new volumes of The Complete Letters of Henry James deserve our admiration for their scholarly rigor and the teamwork required not only of the volume editors and Michael Anesko but also of the associate editors, editorial assistants, and advisory group of this monumental project. . . . These handsome volumes . . . [are] extraordinary resources.”—John Carlos Rowe,
Resource for American Literary StudyPraise for earlier volumes in The Complete Letters of Henry James series
“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
“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)
“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,
Times Literary Supplement
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Symbols and Abbreviations
Chronology
Errata
1885
December 24 To Theodore E. Child
December 29 To Henrietta Reubell
1886
January 1 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
January 5 To Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord Rosebery
January 7 To Elizabeth Boott
January 11 To Mrs. Pfeiffer
January 13 To Mrs. Pfeiffer
January 21 To Edward Tyas Cook
January 23 To Edward Tyas Cook
January 25 To Frederick Macmillan
January 28 To Edmund Gosse
January 31 To Mr. Pfeiffer
February 2 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
February 4 To Robert Louis Stevenson
February 6 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin
February 7 To Grace Norton
February 11 To Maria Theresa Villiers Earle
February 12 To Mary Smith Mundella
February 22 To Elizabeth Boott
February 22 To Francis Boott
February 25 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis
February 26 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis
March 3 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
March 3 To Edward Lee Childe
March 8 To Edith Russell, Lady Playfair
March 9 To William James
March 11 To Henrietta Reubell
March 12 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin
c. March 14 August 28 To Sir John Forbes Clark
c. March 14 August 28 To Lady Constance Wilhelmina Frances Leslie
March 14 To George Du Maurier
March 17 To Elizabeth Boott
March 18 To Edmund Gosse
March 18 To Mary James Wilkinson Mathews
March 19 August 27 To Louisa and Mary Wilhelmina Lawrence
March 19 To Laurence Alma-Tadema
March 26 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
March 27 or April 3, 10, or 17 To Robert Louis and Frances Van de Grift Stevenson
March 29 or April 5 or 12 To Sidney Colvin
March 29 or April 5 or 12 To Frances Van de Grift Stevenson
March 29 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
March 29 To Emma Wilkinson Pertz
April 2 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
April 7 To Ellen “Nellie” Epps Gosse
April 7 To William James
April 7 To Emma Wilkinson Pertz
April 8 To Margaret Oliphant
April 13 To Catharine Walsh
April 16 To William Jones Hoppin
April 18 To Frances Van de Grift Stevenson
April 21 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
April 22 To Margaret Oliphant
April 26 To Alfred Lyttelton
April 29 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
May 1886 To Edmund Yates
May 3 To Anne Benson Skepper Procter
May 10 To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands
May 13 To Mrs. Phelps
May 16 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis
May 19 To James Bryce
May 19 To Henrietta Reubell
May 19 To Laurence Alma-Tadema
May 21 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
May 25 To Francis Boott
May 27 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
May 29 To Mary James Wilkinson Mathews
June 5 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
June 10 To Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory
June 10 To Miss Townley
June 13 To Catharine Walsh
June 13 To William James
June 15 To Marion Langdon
June 18 To Frederick Macmillan
June 24 To Frederick Macmillan
June 26 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis
June 28 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
July 5 To Robert Underwood Johnson
July 7 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
July 12 To Robert Underwood Johnson
July 14 To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis
July 16 To Robert Louis Stevenson
July 16 To Grace Norton
July 23 To Robert Underwood Johnson
July 25 To Robert Underwood Johnson
July 30 To Robert Louis Stevenson
August 5 To George Du Maurier
August 7 To Edmund Gosse
August 12 To Elizabeth Boott
August 12 To Edmund Gosse
August 15 To Francis Boott
August 28 To Edmund Gosse
August 28 To Frederick Locker-Lampson
September 4 To James Russell Lowell
c. September 8 c. October 1 1886 To Edmund Gosse
September 10, 11 To William James
September 12 To Lady Jane O’Meara Simon
September 14 To Julian Russell Sturgis
September 20 To Frederick Macmillan
September 20 To Julian Russell Sturgis
September 27 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company
September 28 To Robert Underwood Johnson
September 29 To Henry White
October 1 To Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell
October 2 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company
October 8 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company
October 12 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company
October 13 To Margaret Oliphant
October 13 To Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord Rosebery
October 18 To Elizabeth Boott
October 19 To William Dean Howells
October 20 To Katharine de Kay Bronson
October 21 To Isabella Stewart Gardner
October 22 To Edmund Gosse
October 22 To Frederick Macmillan
October 25 To Edmund Gosse
October 25 To Robert Underwood Johnson
October 25
188687 or 189094 To Elizabeth “Lily” Gaskell Norton
October 26 To Isabella Stewart Gardner
October 26 To Edmund Gosse
October 28 To Carlo Placci
October 29 To Edmund Gosse
October 30 To Catharine Walsh
November 3 To Edmund Gosse
November 3 To Elizabeth “Dolly” Yates Thompson
November 4 To Francis Boott
November 4 To Katharine de Kay Bronson
November 5 To Isabella Stewart Gardner
November 5 To Robert Louis Stevenson
November 8 To Edmund Gosse
November 9 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin
November 12 To Elizabeth “Lily” Millet
November 12 To Henrietta Reubell
November 12 To Robert Louis Stevenson
November 13 To William James
November 16 To Katharine de Mattos
November 16 To Katharine Peabody Loring
November 16 To James Russell Lowell
November 17 To Frederick Locker-Lampson
November 20 To Ellen “Nellie” Epps Gosse
November 25 To Mrs. Simpson
November 26 To Francis Boott
November 27 To Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell
December 1 To Henry Alden
December 1 To Violet Paget
December 1 To Robert Louis Stevenson
December 6 To Katharine de Kay Bronson
December 6 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
December 6 To Charles Eliot Norton
December 7 To Grace Norton
December 7 To William Dean Howells
December 11, 18, or 25 1886; April 9, 16, 23, or 30 1887; or May 7, 14, or 21 1887 To Emma Wilkinson Pertz
December 19 To William Archer
December 19 To Robert Louis Stevenson
December 23 To William James and Alice Howe Gibbens James
December 24 To John Milton Hay
December 31 To Linda White Mazini Villari
Biographical Register
General Editors’ Note
Works Cited
Index
