{"product_id":"the-complete-letters-of-henry-james-18841886-9781496226655","title":"The Complete Letters of Henry James 18841886","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eEdith Wharton Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878–1880, volumes 1 \u0026amp; 2\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “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, \u003ci\u003eResource for American Literary Study\u003c\/i\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\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Symbols and Abbreviations    \u003cbr\u003e Chronology    \u003cbr\u003e Errata    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1885\u003cbr\u003e December 24    To Theodore E. Child    \u003cbr\u003e December 29    To Henrietta Reubell    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1886\u003cbr\u003e January 1    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e January 5    To Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord Rosebery    \u003cbr\u003e January 7    To Elizabeth Boott    \u003cbr\u003e January 11    To Mrs. Pfeiffer    \u003cbr\u003e January 13    To Mrs. Pfeiffer    \u003cbr\u003e January 21    To Edward Tyas Cook    \u003cbr\u003e January 23    To Edward Tyas Cook    \u003cbr\u003e January 25    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e January 28    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e January 31    To Mr. Pfeiffer    \u003cbr\u003e February 2    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e February 4    To Robert Louis Stevenson    \u003cbr\u003e February 6    To Edwin Lawrence Godkin    \u003cbr\u003e February 7    To Grace Norton    \u003cbr\u003e February 11    To Maria Theresa Villiers Earle    \u003cbr\u003e February 12    To Mary Smith Mundella    \u003cbr\u003e February 22    To Elizabeth Boott    \u003cbr\u003e February 22    To Francis Boott    \u003cbr\u003e February 25    To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis    \u003cbr\u003e February 26    To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis    \u003cbr\u003e March 3    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e March 3    To Edward Lee Childe    \u003cbr\u003e March 8    To Edith Russell, Lady Playfair    \u003cbr\u003e March 9    To William James    \u003cbr\u003e March 11    To Henrietta Reubell    \u003cbr\u003e March 12    To Edwin Lawrence Godkin    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ec. March 14  August 28 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Sir John Forbes Clark    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ec. March 14  August 28 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Lady Constance Wilhelmina Frances Leslie    \u003cbr\u003e March 14    To George Du Maurier    \u003cbr\u003e March 17    To Elizabeth Boott    \u003cbr\u003e March 18    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e March 18    To Mary James Wilkinson Mathews    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMarch 19  August 27 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Louisa and Mary Wilhelmina Lawrence    \u003cbr\u003e March 19    To Laurence Alma-Tadema    \u003cbr\u003e March 26    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMarch 27 or April 3, 10, or 17 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Robert Louis and Frances Van de Grift Stevenson    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e March 29 or April 5 or 12 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Sidney Colvin    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e March 29 or April 5 or 12 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Frances Van de Grift Stevenson    \u003cbr\u003e March 29    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e March 29    To Emma Wilkinson Pertz    \u003cbr\u003e April 2    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e April 7    To Ellen “Nellie” Epps Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e April 7    To William James    \u003cbr\u003e April 7    To Emma Wilkinson Pertz    \u003cbr\u003e April 8    To Margaret Oliphant    \u003cbr\u003e April 13    To Catharine Walsh    \u003cbr\u003e April 16    To William Jones Hoppin    \u003cbr\u003e April 18    To Frances Van de Grift Stevenson    \u003cbr\u003e April 21    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e April 22    To Margaret Oliphant    \u003cbr\u003e April 26    To Alfred Lyttelton    \u003cbr\u003e April 29    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMay 1886\u003c\/b\u003e    To Edmund Yates    \u003cbr\u003e May 3    To Anne Benson Skepper Procter    \u003cbr\u003e May 10    To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands    \u003cbr\u003e May 13    To Mrs. Phelps    \u003cbr\u003e May 16    To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis    \u003cbr\u003e May 19    To James Bryce    \u003cbr\u003e May 19    To Henrietta Reubell    \u003cbr\u003e May 19    To Laurence Alma-Tadema    \u003cbr\u003e May 21    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e May 25    To Francis Boott    \u003cbr\u003e May 27    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e May 29    To Mary James Wilkinson Mathews    \u003cbr\u003e June 5    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e June 10    To Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory    \u003cbr\u003e June 10    To Miss Townley    \u003cbr\u003e June 13    To Catharine Walsh    \u003cbr\u003e June 13    To William James    \u003cbr\u003e June 15    To Marion Langdon    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJune 18 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e June 24    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e June 26    To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis    \u003cbr\u003e June 28    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e July 5    To Robert Underwood Johnson    \u003cbr\u003e July 7    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    \u003cbr\u003e July 12    To Robert Underwood Johnson    \u003cbr\u003e July 14    To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis    \u003cbr\u003e July 16    To Robert Louis Stevenson    \u003cbr\u003e July 16    To Grace Norton    \u003cbr\u003e July 23    To Robert Underwood Johnson    \u003cbr\u003e July 25    To Robert Underwood Johnson    \u003cbr\u003e July 30    To Robert Louis Stevenson    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAugust 5 \u003c\/b\u003e    To George Du Maurier    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAugust 7 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e August 12    To Elizabeth Boott    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAugust 12 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e August 15    To Francis Boott    \u003cbr\u003e August 28    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e August 28    To Frederick Locker-Lampson    \u003cbr\u003e September 4    To James Russell Lowell    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ec. September 8 c. October 1 1886\u003c\/b\u003e    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e September 10, 11    To William James    \u003cbr\u003e September 12    To Lady Jane O’Meara Simon    \u003cbr\u003e September 14    To Julian Russell Sturgis    \u003cbr\u003e September 20    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e September 20    To Julian Russell Sturgis    \u003cbr\u003e September 27    To Houghton, Mifflin and Company    \u003cbr\u003e September 28    To Robert Underwood Johnson    \u003cbr\u003e September 29    To Henry White    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOctober 1 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell    \u003cbr\u003e October 2    To Houghton, Mifflin and Company    \u003cbr\u003e October 8    To Houghton, Mifflin and Company    \u003cbr\u003e October 12    To Houghton, Mifflin and Company    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOctober 13 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Margaret Oliphant    \u003cbr\u003e October 13    To Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord Rosebery    \u003cbr\u003e October 18    To Elizabeth Boott    \u003cbr\u003e October 19    To William Dean Howells    \u003cbr\u003e October 20    To Katharine de Kay Bronson    \u003cbr\u003e October 21    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    \u003cbr\u003e October 22    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e October 22    To Frederick Macmillan    \u003cbr\u003e October 25    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e October 25    To Robert Underwood Johnson    \u003cbr\u003e October 25 \u003cb\u003e188687 or 189094\u003c\/b\u003e    To Elizabeth “Lily” Gaskell Norton    \u003cbr\u003e October 26    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    \u003cbr\u003e October 26    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e October 28    To Carlo Placci    \u003cbr\u003e October 29    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e October 30    To Catharine Walsh    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNovember 3 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNovember 3 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Elizabeth “Dolly” Yates Thompson    \u003cbr\u003e November 4    To Francis Boott    \u003cbr\u003e November 4    To Katharine de Kay Bronson    \u003cbr\u003e November 5    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    \u003cbr\u003e November 5    To Robert Louis Stevenson    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNovember 8 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Edmund Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e November 9    To Edwin Lawrence Godkin    \u003cbr\u003e November 12    To Elizabeth “Lily” Millet    \u003cbr\u003e November 12    To Henrietta Reubell    \u003cbr\u003e November 12    To Robert Louis Stevenson    \u003cbr\u003e November 13    To William James    \u003cbr\u003e November 16    To Katharine de Mattos    \u003cbr\u003e November 16    To Katharine Peabody Loring    \u003cbr\u003e November 16    To James Russell Lowell    \u003cbr\u003e November 17    To Frederick Locker-Lampson    \u003cbr\u003e November 20    To Ellen “Nellie” Epps Gosse    \u003cbr\u003e November 25    To Mrs. Simpson    \u003cbr\u003e November 26    To Francis Boott    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNovember 27 \u003c\/b\u003e    To Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell    \u003cbr\u003e December 1    To Henry Alden    \u003cbr\u003e December 1    To Violet Paget    \u003cbr\u003e December 1    To Robert Louis Stevenson    \u003cbr\u003e December 6    To Katharine de Kay Bronson    \u003cbr\u003e December 6    To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley    \u003cbr\u003e December 6    To Charles Eliot Norton    \u003cbr\u003e December 7    To Grace Norton    \u003cbr\u003e December 7    To William Dean Howells    \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDecember 11, 18, or 25 1886; April 9, 16, 23, or 30 1887; or May 7, 14, or 21 1887\u003c\/b\u003e    To Emma Wilkinson Pertz    \u003cbr\u003e December 19    To William Archer    \u003cbr\u003e December 19    To Robert Louis Stevenson    \u003cbr\u003e December 23    To William James and Alice Howe Gibbens James    \u003cbr\u003e December 24    To John Milton Hay    \u003cbr\u003e December 31    To Linda White Mazini Villari    \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":49409236107607,"sku":"9781496226655","price":62.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496226655.jpg?v=1730506081","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-complete-letters-of-henry-james-18841886-9781496226655","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}