BIB_ID
396895
Accession number
MA 8732.4
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
1887 Mar. 13.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (7 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Henry James to Dr. William W. Baldwin between 1887 and 1900 (MA 8732.1-75). This collection is part of a much larger collection of letters to Dr. Baldwin from authors, English royalty and other luminaries of the period, including Samuel Clemens, William Dean Howells, Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry Cabot Lodge, Booth Tarkington, Edith Wharton and Constance Fenimore Woolson. See MA 3564 for more information on the complete Baldwin collection.
Written from the "Palazzino Alvisi / Canal Grande / Venice".
Written from the "Palazzino Alvisi / Canal Grande / Venice".
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Sending him two bottles of his "water on rising & after luncheon;" saying the day after he had written previously he "began to feel better & the day after that felt quite well - which has continued. Your idea that my affliction was probably lumbago is perhaps correct;" replying to specific questions that relate to his condition and saying "My appetite & sleep are (& were) thank heaven, very good. I have always a tendency to constipation, which used to be very great. As I grow older it grows less - & has always, I have noticed, been less when I have been in Italy. For the last three or four months I have suffered from it scarcely at all. I keep my bowels, on the whole, very successfully open;" adding that he feels so much better that he need only give his condition "further attention - without hurry - only at your leisure. The quiet of Venice agrees with me."
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