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Autograph letter signed : Cheyne Walk [London], to Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1915 May 20.

BIB_ID
381146
Accession number
MA 5463
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
1915 May 20.
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Mrs. Lowndes was the sister of Hilaire Belloc and a novelist best known for The Lodger.
Written on stationery engraved "21, Carlyle Mansions, / Cheyne Walk. S.W." and "2417 Kensington."
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Expressing his disappointment at not seeing her "but I none the less applaud your finding an occasion to lie up & give your self a few of those soins that you lavish so much to your own cost mostly on a voracious generation at large. With your passionate pot-boiling & all the rest of it, you are very heroic;" asking her to "ring me up as soon as you return from that healing absence & then we will settle another day;" adding "I don't stir from town - I immobilize with fury."