BIB_ID
101675
Accession number
MA 1617.194
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
London, England, 1878 March 9.
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Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 20.3 x 12.7 cm
Notes
This letter is one of ten letters from James to Henley written between March 9, 1878 and June 21, 1879.
The years and specific dates of writing identified by Greg W. Zacharias, co-Editor of The Complete Letters of Henry James 1878-1880, Volume 1 cited below.
Written from "3, Bolton Street, / W.
The years and specific dates of writing identified by Greg W. Zacharias, co-Editor of The Complete Letters of Henry James 1878-1880, Volume 1 cited below.
Written from "3, Bolton Street, / W.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
"Saying "Many thanks for your note & for the notice of my book, which seems to me equally graceful & complimentary. You say very pretty things. I think you are wrong in thinking me unjust to dear old Balzac, for whom I have a consuming admiration; but I shall undertake to prove to you some day, scientifically, that L. de Chaulieu & D. de Maufrigneuse are tolerably impressible ladies. I have always had a 'tooth' as they say, against the latter for the way in which the introduction of her figure, in male costume at the dance, spoils & falsifies that little masterpiece, the 'Cabinet des Antiques' - My congratulations on your marriage."
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