BIB_ID
396912
Accession number
MA 8732.6
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
[1888] July 31.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.4 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 "34 D.V.G." (34 De Vere Gardens).
Written from "34 D.V.G." (34 De Vere Gardens).
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Apologizing for the delay in thanking him for his letter but explaining he was under the stress of work; recollecting their last time together in Florence when he gave him a "luxurious lift up to Bellosguardo; complimenting him on his success saying "...there is something inspiring & exciting in the spectacle of high ability carrying everything before it...I hope your triumphs have culminated in the greatest stroke of all & that you are succeeding in having a holiday;" commenting on the weather in London as "...the coldest, wettest, darkest summer on record - but that is precisely why we count upon something better a month hence;" expressing his concern that Miss Woolson may be overworked "but her power to keep that up have long mystified me. Everything beyond three hours a day (with continuity) in the sort of work she does is a nail in her coffin - but she appears to decide that her coffin shall have many - Please don't repeat this to her - I have bored her half to death with my warnings."
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