BIB_ID
382394
Accession number
MA 6091.4
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
1896 May 6.
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
On stationery embossed with "34, De Vere Gardens. / W." James has changed this address to "Point Hill. / Playden. / Rye. Sussex."
Part of a collection of eight letters from Henry James to Clement Shorter. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 6091 for more information.
Part of a collection of eight letters from Henry James to Clement Shorter. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 6091 for more information.
Provenance
Bookplate of Clement K. Shorter; inscribed to Leon Edel by Frederica and Harold Landon, 1959; signed by Leon Edel, 1959; The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Sending him the first installment of his story under separate cover; discussing the illustrations for the story; remarking, "I like so little to be illustrated (I resent it so, amiably speaking, on behalf of good prose and real writing)"; commenting on the title of his story; noting that he has "lost several days in moving down here [to Sussex] from town"; promising to send another batch soon so that "the whole thing shall practically be in [Shorter's] hands by the time the beginning appears"; adding that he would like to see the proofs.
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