BIB_ID
397013
Accession number
MA 8732.25
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
"Thursday" [1892 June 9].
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.4 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 mourning stationery from the "Gd Hotel de Sienne."
Written on mourning stationery from the "Gd Hotel de Sienne."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Thanking him for his telegram; explaining that he will be in Siena for the month but hopes to visit him in Florence in early July if he is still there; commenting on Siena saying it "...is enchanting. It is cool & fair;" apologizing for the haste of the letter but saying he has "brought with me a ton of unanswered letters to work off."
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