{"product_id":"the-complete-letters-of-henry-james-18871888-9781496237521","title":"The Complete Letters of Henry James 18871888","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis seventeenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James's known and extant 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for earlier volumes in The Complete Letters of Henry James series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Michael Anesko’s superb introduction to both volumes [\u003ci\u003eThe Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878–1880\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eResource for American Literary Study\u003c\/i\u003e\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\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Symbols and Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Chronology\u003cbr\u003e Errata\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 1887\u003cbr\u003e 24 December         To Rhoda Broughton\u003cbr\u003e 24 December         To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 30 December         To Thomas Bailey Aldrich\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 1888\u003cbr\u003e 2 January           To William Dean Howells\u003cbr\u003e 3 January           To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 4 January           To Urbain Mengin\u003cbr\u003e 4, 10 January and 5 February       To Grace Norton\u003cbr\u003e 6 January           To Rhoda Broughton\u003cbr\u003e 6 January           To Joseph Pennell\u003cbr\u003e 7 January           To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 9 January           To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 10 January          To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell\u003cbr\u003e 15 January          To Henrietta Reubell\u003cbr\u003e 15 January          To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley\u003cbr\u003e 16 January          To Robert Underwood Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 19 January          To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 20 January          To Rhoda Broughton\u003cbr\u003e 23 January          To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley\u003cbr\u003e 24 January   To Louisa Lawrence and Mary Lawrence\u003cbr\u003e 25 January          To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 26 January          To Frederick Macmillan\u003cbr\u003e 28 January          To Alice Stopford Green\u003cbr\u003e 28 January          To Lady Caroline Elizabeth Blanche Lindsay\u003cbr\u003e 29 January          To Elizabeth Boott\u003cbr\u003e 30 January          To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e February     To Alice James\u003cbr\u003e 3 February          To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell\u003cbr\u003e 8 February          To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley\u003cbr\u003e 13 February         To Charles Stanley Reinhart\u003cbr\u003e 15 February         To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell\u003cbr\u003e 17 February         To Frances Balfour\u003cbr\u003e 20 February  To William James\u003cbr\u003e 22 February         To Henrietta Reubell\u003cbr\u003e 23 February         To Paul Bourget\u003cbr\u003e 23 February         To Alice James\u003cbr\u003e 23 February         To Urbain Mengin\u003cbr\u003e 24 February         To Daniel Sargent Curtis\u003cbr\u003e 27 February         To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 28 February         To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 28 February         To Robert Louis Stevenson\u003cbr\u003e 29 February         To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e March or April    To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward\u003cbr\u003e 3 March             To Thomas Bailey Aldrich\u003cbr\u003e 3 March             To Mrs. Brooke\u003cbr\u003e 10 March            To Lady Constance Leslie\u003cbr\u003e 10 March            To Laura Wagnière\u003cbr\u003e 15 March            To Florence Bell\u003cbr\u003e 18 March            To Rhoda Broughton\u003cbr\u003e 18 March            To Isabella Stewart Gardner\u003cbr\u003e 18 March 1888–89     To Florence Robb\u003cbr\u003e 19 March            To Urbain Mengin\u003cbr\u003e 21 March            To Frederick Macmillan\u003cbr\u003e 21 March            To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley\u003cbr\u003e 23 March            To Rhoda Broughton\u003cbr\u003e 23 March            To Theodore E. Child\u003cbr\u003e 27 March            To William Archer\u003cbr\u003e 27 March            To Theodore E. Child\u003cbr\u003e 1 April             To Henrietta Reubell\u003cbr\u003e 2 April             To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis\u003cbr\u003e 3 April             To Francis Boott\u003cbr\u003e 3 April             To Urbain Mengin\u003cbr\u003e 4 April             To Louisa and Mary Lawrence\u003cbr\u003e 5 April             To Henrietta Reubell\u003cbr\u003e 6 April             To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell\u003cbr\u003e 6 April             To Louisa Lawrence\u003cbr\u003e 8 April             To R. \u0026amp; R. Clark\u003cbr\u003e 9 April             To Robert Underwood Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 10 April            To George Henry Boughton\u003cbr\u003e 10 April            To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley\u003cbr\u003e 11 April            To Edward Lee Childe\u003cbr\u003e 12 April            To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell\u003cbr\u003e 21 April            To Francis Boott\u003cbr\u003e 21 April            To Rhoda Broughton\u003cbr\u003e 21 April            To Constance de Rothschild Flower, Lady Battersea\u003cbr\u003e 21 April     To Henrietta Reubell\u003cbr\u003e 28 April            To Samuel Dana Horton\u003cbr\u003e 1 May               To Rhoda Broughton\u003cbr\u003e [2 May]             To Rhoda Broughton\u003cbr\u003e 3 May               To Rhoda Broughton\u003cbr\u003e 3 May               To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 6 May               To Rhoda Broughton\u003cbr\u003e 9 May               To Frederic William Henry Myers\u003cbr\u003e 9 May               To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands\u003cbr\u003e 10 May              To Thomas George Bain\u003cbr\u003e 12 May              To Rhoda Broughton\u003cbr\u003e 15 May              To Francis Boott\u003cbr\u003e 15 May              To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis\u003cbr\u003e 15 May              To William Fraser Rae\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003elate Mayearly June\u003c\/b\u003e  To Samuel Dana Horton\u003cbr\u003e 19 May              To Mrs. Robb\u003cbr\u003e 19 May              To Edinburgh Philosophical Institute\u003cbr\u003e 21 May              To Houghton, Mifflin and Company\u003cbr\u003e 22 May              To Katharine Sands Godkin\u003cbr\u003e 22 May              To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 22 May              To Catharine Walsh\u003cbr\u003e 23 May              To Violet Paget\u003cbr\u003e 24 May              To Frederick Macmillan\u003cbr\u003e 24 May              To Henrietta Reubell\u003cbr\u003e 25 May              To James Ripley Osgood\u003cbr\u003e 26 May              To Alice Stopford Green\u003cbr\u003e 26 May              To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands\u003cbr\u003e 29 May       To Harry Quilter\u003cbr\u003e 31 May              To Harry Quilter\u003cbr\u003e 1 June              To Frederic William Henry Myers\u003cbr\u003e 4 June              To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 4 June              To Henrietta Reubell\u003cbr\u003e 5 June              To Dr. Edward Eggleston\u003cbr\u003e 9 June              To Daniel Conner Lathbury\u003cbr\u003e 12 June             To Lilian June Bailey Henschel\u003cbr\u003e 13 June             To Charles Stanley Reinhart\u003cbr\u003e 20 June             To Henrietta Reubell\u003cbr\u003e 26 June             To William James\u003cbr\u003e 28 June             To Harry Quilter\u003cbr\u003e 28 June      To Harry Quilter\u003cbr\u003e 29 June             To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 30 June             To Henrietta Reubell\u003cbr\u003e 2 July              To Elizabeth “Lily” Norton\u003cbr\u003e 2 July              To Maria Theodora Sedgwick\u003cbr\u003e 3 July              To Henrietta Reubell\u003cbr\u003e 3, 5 July           To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward\u003cbr\u003e 4 July              To Henrietta Reubell\u003cbr\u003e 4 July              To Harry Quilter\u003cbr\u003e 5 July              To Frederick Macmillan\u003cbr\u003e 6 July              To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 6 July              To Alice Stopford Green\u003cbr\u003e 6 July              To Harry Quilter\u003cbr\u003e 7 July              To Robert Underwood Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 7 July              To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis\u003cbr\u003e 7 July              To Harry Quilter\u003cbr\u003e 8 July              To Sarah Butler Wister\u003cbr\u003e 10 July             To Henrietta Reubell\u003cbr\u003e 12 July             To Walter Besant and Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 14 July             To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 17 July             To Harry Quilter\u003cbr\u003e 20 July             To Harry Quilter\u003cbr\u003e 24 July             To Harry Quilter\u003cbr\u003e 26 July             To Francis Boott\u003cbr\u003e 26 July             To Kate Sara Sibley Gurney\u003cbr\u003e 27 July             To Charles Stanley Reinhart\u003cbr\u003e 27 July             To Isabella Stewart Gardner\u003cbr\u003e 31 July             To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin\u003cbr\u003e 31 July             To Robert Louis Stevenson\u003cbr\u003e 1 August            To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 4 August            To Charles Stanley Reinhart\u003cbr\u003e 7 August            To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley\u003cbr\u003e 11 August           To Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White\u003cbr\u003e 13 August           To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley\u003cbr\u003e 15 August           To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley\u003cbr\u003e 20 August           To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 22 August           To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 26 August           To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 27 August           To Edmund Gosse\u003cbr\u003e 29 August           To Henrietta Reubell\u003cbr\u003e 29 August           To Elizabeth “Lily” Millet\u003cbr\u003e 10 September        To Thomas Bailey Aldrich\u003cbr\u003e 10 September        To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell\u003cbr\u003e 10 September        To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley\u003cbr\u003e 11 September        To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley\u003cbr\u003e 28 September        To Urbain Mengin\u003cbr\u003e 29 September        To William Dean Howells\u003cbr\u003e 29 September        To Urbain Mengin\u003cbr\u003e 29 September        To Henrietta Reubell\u003cbr\u003e 30 September        To Thomas Bailey Aldrich\u003cbr\u003e 30 September        To Grace Norton\u003cbr\u003e 30 September        To Catharine Walsh\u003cbr\u003e 13 October          To Frederick Macmillan\u003cbr\u003e 15 October          To Laura Alma-Tadema\u003cbr\u003e 20 October          To Frederic William Henry Myers\u003cbr\u003e 24 October          To Thomas Bailey Aldrich\u003cbr\u003e 28 October          To Thomas Bailey Aldrich\u003cbr\u003e 28 October          To Richard Watson Gilder\u003cbr\u003e 29 October          To Francis Boott\u003cbr\u003e 29 October          To William James\u003cbr\u003e 29 October          To Henrietta Reubell\u003cbr\u003e 30 October          To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis\u003cbr\u003e 30 October          To Houghton, Mifflin and Company\u003cbr\u003e 1 November; misdated October            To Robert Underwood Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 6 November          To Rhoda Broughton\u003cbr\u003e 6 November          To Daniel Sargent Curtis\u003cbr\u003e 10 November         To Constance de Rothschild Flower, Lady Battersea\u003cbr\u003e 11 November         To Elizabeth “Dolly” Yates Thompson\u003cbr\u003e 13 November         To Thomas Bailey Aldrich\u003cbr\u003e 16 November         To Elizabeth “Lily” Millet\u003cbr\u003e 18 November         To Daniel Sargent Curtis\u003cbr\u003e 19 November         To Daniel Sargent Curtis\u003cbr\u003e 19 November         To James Russell Lowell\u003cbr\u003e 19 November         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":49409246331223,"sku":"9781496237521","price":67.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496237521.jpg?v=1730506129","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-complete-letters-of-henry-james-18871888-9781496237521","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}