BIB_ID
396939
Accession number
MA 8732.17
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
[1891] July 15.
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 complete Baldwin collection.
Written on stationery embossed with "34, De Vere Gardens, / W." but that has been crossed through and James has written "Royal Marine Hotel / Kingstown / Ireland."
Written on stationery embossed with "34, De Vere Gardens, / W." but that has been crossed through and James has written "Royal Marine Hotel / Kingstown / Ireland."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Explaining that is he "far from London...close to Dublin...fleeing, dodging the racket of the London July & getting over (I am almost quite right now) a sharp attack of influenza;" relating his schedule and expressing his disappointment that he will miss him on his visit to London; saying "My imagination doesn't keep up with you in your leap from the Appenines [sic] to the Rockies. I want more information & justification...Your letters give me the greatest pleasure with all they express and relate. I rejoice in what you tell me of you acquisition of skill, prosperity & experience. May they multiply a hundred fold;" discussing news of mutual friends; adding "I came off here to work & am quite done up with writing - so excuse my present brevity. I want my letter to meet you in Paris."
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