Autograph letter signed : London, to Dr. Baldwin, [1892] Nov. 15.

Apologizing for the delay in his reply; "I sit in darkness and long for the Arno-side. We have had a week of horrid fogs, and my thoughts turn irresistibly in your direction. I can't follow them yet, however, but I shall follow them the 1st moment I can. I have wanted these several weeks, to thank you for your numerous goodnesses to my brother, and I shall do so with interest when I arrive...I hope, all the same, that the season of overwork hasn't set in; that you have enough to keep your hand in, but not enough to break your back. My friend Sydney Colvin, the best & most accomplished of men, but one of the most delicate &, I fear, most morosely ill, brought me news of you the other day & spoke of you with infinite appreciation. He looked much less well after his three months holiday than one might have hoped. I hear from the Bourgets, who are in Paris but frantically desirous to get away from it, & whom I have promised to go & see at San Remo, if they go there for 2 or 3 months as they now intend. C.F. Woolson has at the present moment the periodical blessing of her sister & nicer - is also in one of her periodical frenzies of work. I am equally in one of my low "mean" fevers of production - which must be my excuse for this brevity of acknowledgment which in respect to letters, is what I am more & more reduced to. Brief as it is it includes, my dear Baldwin, a cordial embrace and, on all your house, the blessing of your affectionately, / Henry James."