BIB_ID
397014
Accession number
MA 8732.26
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
"Saturday" [1892 June 11].
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (6 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 "H[otel] de Sienne."
Written on mourning stationery from the "H[otel] de Sienne."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter and for the invitation to the Bourgets; "They ask me to say with what regret they feel themselves unable to accept it. They return from here straight to France when they do start by Pisa, Genoa & Turin, not going to Florence. They have taken a furnished house here, with a lease, servants & everything, & he is working hard & on time. My own plan is to remain here - the place & the moment are so lovely - through this month & possibly for 2 or 3 of the 1st days of next if the 1st instalment [sic] of the great annual horse race in the Piazza takes place early enough for me to spare a little extra time to wait over for it. This will also depend a little on what the Bourgets do. Their present plan is to stay till about the same moment. I am afraid I shall not have many days - more than 2 or 3 - to give to Florence, as I must, for a special reason - which I will tell you, go for a few - a very few - to Venice, & then must join my brother, who has lately come abroad with his wife & children, & whom I am shamefully neglecting, in Switzerland;" inviting him to come "for the races...The great ones are in August, but this 1st rehearsal is worth seeing. I should be delighted to go to Viareggio for a day or two - if the children haven't left it by the time I am free. I am also pressed with work which I have come abroad on purpose to do. I spread that butter-pat of a Taccini on my daily bread. Don't tell him this however - but something prettier."
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