BIB_ID
396940
Accession number
MA 8732.18
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
[1891] July 19.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.5 x 11.2 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 "Royal Marine Hotel / Kingstown, Ireland."
Written from "Royal Marine Hotel / Kingstown, Ireland."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Explaining the haste of his previous letter and saying he wants "to give you a further greeting & tell you more emphatically how sorry I am to miss you and how much I have relished your letters. (I forwarded one to Miss Woolson from you this morning. She is just about to remove, she writes me, to 13 Beaumont Street, Oxford.) I should have greatly liked to catch you as you pass & hear everything about the beloved old Florence. When I do see you in September, I trust you will perhaps have got it so mixed up with Kansas that we shall scarcely know which is which?...I hope the episode isn't going to be a mere frantic, fatiguing grind, void of all rest & refreshment to you. Be as external & unprofessional & indifferent as you can, & it will do you some good;" appreciating his news of Taccini and of his children; adding "What a pity the poor little plump Professore couldn't be put out in a Swiss valley to grass & milk. How the latter would become butter!"
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