BIB_ID
395279
Accession number
MA 8728.1
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
1892 Apr. 6.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation and on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2016.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
The novel to which James refers is likely "La Fenton: a Novel" by Gwendoline Galton and published in 1891. Miss Galton married Frederick Richard Trench Gascoigne in February 1892.
Written on mourning paper embossed with "34, De Vere Gardens."
Written on mourning paper embossed with "34, De Vere Gardens."
Summary
Discussing the death of his sister; saying "My sister's death makes a sad change in my life - I saw her with such frequency & such interest; but it represents the cessation of a lifetime of suffering;" congratulating him on his marriage and on "liking the wild west, as to which I fear my ideas are of the vaguest and most prejudiced; if you are happy there I shall try to see it in the light of that romance;" saying he had not heard, until Higginson told him, "of Miss Douglas Galton's [Gwendolen Galton Gascoigne] union -- nor do I know to whom she is united. Yet I have occasionally seen her - though I fear I displeased her after she had wrung from me a lukewarm opinion about a strangely bad novel that she put forth...of which she probably now repents;" adding that he hopes that after he's made his fortune he will come "to London again, that is if you will still be prepared to recognize your indigent, but, my dear George, very faithful relative."
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