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Book SynopsisThis sixteenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James's letters records James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, engage timely political and economic issues, and maximize his income.
Trade Review“Michael Anesko’s superb introduction to both volumes [
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878–1880, volumes 1 and 2] 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 Study “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 “The textual editing of the letters is fantastically thorough, every blot, deletion, insertion, and misspelling being lucidly presented in the text itself and further described in endnotes to each letter; for the reader this evokes the dash and spontaneity of James’s pen, and for the scholar it clarifies every possible ambiguity caused by that dash. . . . The letters themselves are so vivid, funny, and revealing that [the edition] is already indispensable.”—Alan Hollinghurst,
The Guardian “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"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 Review"This is a great addition to libraries of all sorts, and it should be inspiration for writers to browse through some of these letters to find another writer’s input on topics we all have to ponder."—
Pennsylvania Literary JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Symbols and Abbreviations
Chronology
Errata
1887
1 January to c. 21 July 1887 To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin
4 January To Linda White Mazini Villari
19 January To Katharine de Kay Bronson
20 January To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
21 January To Robert Louis Stevenson
21 January To Katharine de Kay Bronson
22 January To Katharine de Kay Bronson
25 January To Grace Norton
26 January To Katharine de Kay Bronson
26 January To Margaret Tod Cantagalli
27 January To Robert Underwood Johnson
27 January To Edith Peruzzi
28 January To Eleanor Frances Poynter
31 January To Walter Herries Pollock
5 February To Katharine de Kay Bronson
6 February To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin
7 February To Eliza Lynn Linton
18 February To Katharine de Kay Bronson
18 February To William James
25 February To Edwin Lawrence Godkin
25 February To William Dean Howells
26 February To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands
26 February To Catharine Walsh
26 February To Catharine Walsh
27 February To Grace Norton
27 February To Sarah Butler Wister
28 February To Katharine Peabody Loring
March To Laura Wagnière
1 March To James Russell Lowell
2 March To George du Maurier
8 March To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin
13 March To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin
15 March To Francis Boott
23 March To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin
6 April To Francis Boott
7 April To William James
11 April To Robert Underwood Johnson
12 April To John Milton Hay
12 April To Hannah Locker-Lampson
13 April to 25 May 1887 To Somerset Beaumont
14 April To Ellen “Nellie” Epps Gosse
23 April To Katharine de Kay Bronson
23 April To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis
24 April To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis
24 April To Alice Howe Gibbens James
24 April To Edmund Gosse
24 April To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands
25 April To Felix Moscheles
25 April To Sir
2 May To Robert Underwood Johnson
3 May To Katharine de Kay Bronson
3 May To William James
3 May To James Russell Lowell
15 May To Robert Louis Stevenson
16 May To Robert Louis Stevenson
20 May To Frances “Fanny” Anne Kemble
22 May To Linda White Mazini Villari
23 May To Violet Paget
23 May To Laura Wagnière
June 1887 To Robert Louis Stevenson
12 June To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
13 June To Robert Underwood Johnson
14 June To John White Alexander
16 June To James Russell Lowell
16 June To Catharine Walsh
18 June To Juliet Trower
21 June To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
24 June To Katharine de Kay Bronson
28 June To Robert Underwood Johnson
July 1887 To Robert Louis Stevenson
3 July To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis
9 July To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis
21 July To John Milton Hay
21 July To Eliot Norton
22 July To Isabella Stewart Gardner
22 July To John Milton Hay
23 July To Grace Norton
26 July To Isabella Stewart Gardner
26 July To Catharine Walsh
27 July To Charles Eliot Norton
28 July To John Milton Hay
28 July To Frances “Fanny” van de Grift Stevenson
2 August 1887-89 To Lillian June Bailey Henschel
2 August To Robert Louis Stevenson
3 August To Edmund Gosse
5 August To James Ripley Osgood
7 August To Elizabeth Blakeway Smith
10 August To Mary Theresa Mundella
10 August To James Ripley Osgood
11 August To Frances “Fanny” van de Grift Stevenson
17 August To Edmund Gosse
17 August To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands
17 August To Frances “Fanny” van de Grift Stevenson
18 August To Theodore E. Child
18 August To Katharine Peabody Loring
18 August To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands
19 August To Edmund Gosse
23 August To Florence Bell
23 August To John Milton Hay
29 August To Florence Bell
31 August To Edmund Gosse
7 September To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis
7 September To Daniel Sargent Curtis
9 September To Sidney Colvin
17 September To Katharine de Kay Bronson
17 September To Charles Eliot Norton
20 September To Theodore E. Child
20 September To Elizabeth “Lily” Millet
20 September To Elizabeth “Lily” Norton
21 September To Sidney Colvin
24 September To Samuel Dana Horton
24 September To Samuel Dana Horton
27 September To Samuel Dana Horton
27 September To Henrietta Reubell
27 September To Catharine Walsh
28 September To Elizabeth “Lily” Millet
October Robert Louis Stevenson
1, 5 October To William James
7 October To Sarah Butler Wister
19 October To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
19 October To Isabella Stewart Gardner
19 October To Frederick Macmillan
20 October To Isabella Stewart Gardner
20 October To Isabella Stewart Gardner
20 October To Robert Louis Stevenson
21 October To Frederick Macmillan
28 October To Robert Underwood Johnson
30 October To Alice Stopford Green
30 October To Margaret Oliphant
30 October To Henrietta Reubell
12 November To Edwin Austen Abbey
12 November To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
13 November To Elizabeth Boott
13 November To Robert Underwood Johnson
15 November To American Copyright League
15 November To Robert Underwood Johnson
17 November To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
21 November To Henrietta Reubell
23 November To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
24 November To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands
29 November To Lillian June Bailey Henschel
30 November To Frederick Macmillan
30 November To Urbain Mengin
5 December To Isabella Stewart Gardner
5 December To Robert Louis Stevenson
8 December To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
11 December To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
18 December To Ariana Randolph Wormeley and Daniel Sargent Curtis
18 December To Edmund Gosse
18 December To Robert Louis Stevenson
18 December To Owen Wister
19 December To Robert Underwood Johnson
19 December To Henrietta Reubell
22 December To Robert Underwood Johnson
Biographical Register
General Editors’ Note
Works Cited
