BIB_ID
381157
Accession number
MA 5464
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
1915 Aug. 17.
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
James was granted British citizenship on July 28, 1915 after having lived in England for forty years..
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."
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
Commenting on all the good wishes he has received [on gaining his British citizenship] "and though I pretty well thought I should like doing what I have done, I find it agrees with me still better than I have imagined...I think I taste my citizenship rather more on this spot - discounted as it truly was when I took it up by something forty long years so remarkably like it that I wonder anyone can tell them apart - I myself being all but unable to;" adding that he received "a postcard from H[ugh] W[alpole] 'in Galicia' closely about and in the trenches, and under fire as an intimate Red Cross ministrant, and pronouncing the last three months, in spite of his twice having but just escaped capture by the enemy - 'Which I dread much more than anything else' - the very happiest of his life. He hopes to get back here in September - when I count upon his being far more interesting and informing than if he had spent this interval otherwise."
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