BIB_ID
397018
Accession number
MA 8732.29
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
"Sunday" [1892 June 26].
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.4 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 on mourning stationery from the Hotel de Sienne.
Written on mourning stationery from the Hotel de Sienne.
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Referring to his request of Dr. Baldwin for a recommendation of an English maid for Mrs. Bourget; saying "I have no idea whatever that you will be able to invent an English maid for Mme. Bourget - & you must wear the appeal very lightly;" expressing his delight that he will see him on the 1st.
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