BIB_ID
396914
Accession number
MA 8732.8
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
[1889 May 19].
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 9.3 x 12.1 cm
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.
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Being an autograph envelope with the stamp and postmark cut out of the recto and addressed to "Doctor W.W. Baldwin / Villino Rubio / 1 Via Palestro / Florence. Italy." The checklist for this collection indicates that there is a 4-page letter written from the Grand Hotel, Naples on May 19, 1889 to Dr. Baldwin "giving his time of arrival in Florence." The envelope, with the postmark of "Firenze, May 19, 1889" on the verso, is with the collection but the letter is missing.
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