BIB_ID
397073
Accession number
MA 8732.41
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
[1894?] Mar. 3.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.2 cm
Notes
A penciled notation written beneath "March 3d" suggests the year of writing may be 1894.
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 her "...for two little boxes of lovely purple flowers (anemones?) which safely reached me some days ago & which bore the Florence postmark & an address which I recognized as in your hand. It was most kind of both of you to have again the impulse to light up my sickly London air with a reminder of the beloved Arno-side. The flowers lasted for days & days & made me continuously grateful. In fact it is the homesickness of Italy with which they filled me that partly enables me to say today that I shall walk by that Arno-side before very long. I expect to leave for Italy about the 15th of this month; & except for spending 3 days in Paris, to go straight to Genoa; where I have all winter been promising a short visit to 2 or 3 friends who are wintering near it. I have also told poor Mrs. Benedict & her daughter (Miss Woolson's sister and niece) that I will meet them there on their arrival from New York - whence they sail on the 17th. This will be a terribly sad errand - & I don't quite see how they can face the horror of going to Venice - any more than I see, as yet, how I can face it myself. But I quite understand their desire to go to Rome. I hope to go there for a short time - but not with them. At any rate, it all means that I shall see you & the Doctor at no distant date...I hope I shall find you all in health & prosperity & encircled already with the divine Tuscan spring."
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