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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : Innsbruck, to Dr. Baldwin, [1890 June 20].

BIB_ID
396916
Accession number
MA 8732.10
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
[1890 June 20].
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.5 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
Describing his carriage trip with "the friends with whom I stayed in Venice [the Curtises] & who have brought me thus far are determined to put me through the mill. But thus far the mill has ground merrily enough - our 3 days drive through the Venetian Alps, the Ampezzo, etc, has been enchantingly beautiful. The performance at Oberammergau takes place on Sunday 22nd - & lasts (in the open air, & in the rain, if it rains) from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.! It would give you many patients, I think, if you were here. However, I hope to survive it, & drive back here, alone, (my companions go elsewhere) on Monday 23rd;" relating the route he will take back to Italy and to Asolo "where I spend a couple of days with Mrs. Bronson, who, as perhaps you know, has a little house there. (Asolo is in the sweet Venetian hills, near Bassano, & Pen Browning, the other day in Venice, recommended me highly to take the drive in question - from Botzen to Bassano, by Premiero & San Martino, other beautiful Dolomites;" saying he will let him know his exact arrival date in Florence when he is certain of his plans; adding "I deplore your defunct patients & don't envy your groggy apostle. You must tell me all about him. I have the charmingest recollection of my week in your delicate Villino & of the hospitality you & Mrs.. Baldwin lavished on me."