BIB_ID
101163
Accession number
MA 3140.1
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
1900 Sept. 1.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. Hyatt Mayor, 1974.
Description
1 item (90 p.), unbound ; 25.1 cm
Notes
At top of page in James' hand: "Project of Novel by Henry James." Also signed and dated by James on p. 90.
The only surviving scenario or outline of a novel by James.
The text of "Project of novel" has been published in two editions of The Ambassadors: the edition appearing in the series the Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James (ed. Nicola Bradbury, Cambridge University Press, 2015) and the Norton Critical Edition (ed. S. P. Rosenbaum, W. W. Norton, 1994).
The only surviving scenario or outline of a novel by James.
The text of "Project of novel" has been published in two editions of The Ambassadors: the edition appearing in the series the Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James (ed. Nicola Bradbury, Cambridge University Press, 2015) and the Norton Critical Edition (ed. S. P. Rosenbaum, W. W. Norton, 1994).
Provenance
Joseph B. Ames (ca. 1925); Bernard Bandler (1929); Mr. and Mrs. A. Hyatt Mayor (1932).
Summary
A detailed outline of The Ambassadors sent by Henry James to Harper & Brothers. This novel was published serially in the North American Review.
Housed in
Red cloth drop-spine box (27 cm).
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