BIB_ID
396907
Accession number
MA 8732.5
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
1887 Mar. 23.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.5 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 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
Thanking him for his "long & lucid letter - especially as I judge you are badly overworked & fatigued. I understand it perfectly & shall follow its directions religiously;" saying he is returning to Florence and will see him soon but adding that since he last wrote to him he has "been rather miserably unwell - & all these last days in bed which is rare for me. But I have not had the same sensations or symptoms as I wrote you of - only a horrid attack in my head as I am - or rather have been in the past, lamentably subject to - & which on this occasion has been distinguished for its long duration;" adding that he will be going to Bellosguardo "to be out of the turmoil of Florence. I wish you were less in it."
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