BIB_ID
397026
Accession number
MA 8732.32
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
[1892] Aug. 16.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Miss Greenough was the sister of the American sculptor Horatio Greenough.
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 "34, De Vere Gardens. W."
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 "34, De Vere Gardens. W."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Thanking him for returning letters for him that were received at Via Palestro; expressing his delight "...to be reminded that Italy & my exquisite days there are really a part of the texture of a recoverable life. Other wise they drop into the limbo of the imagined, the mythical...Most intensely would I be with you for another evening of the poetic twilighted Cascine, which even a Tuckerman can't spoil. You have all my sympathy in the dreariness of your present relation to poor Miss Greenough. I was very sorry she suffers - one ought to die beautifully in that beautiful spot to have an end as soft as one of the Bellosguardo sunsets. I hope hers may have come by this time...I rejoice that Vallombrosa answers & that the children romp happily in the great woods. I am quite sick at finding myself definitely so far from it all. But you may be sure I shall come back at the 1st possible hour."
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