BIB_ID
397134
Accession number
MA 8732.45
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
[1894 May 29].
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.6 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 from the "Grand hotel / Rome / Tuesday."
Written from the "Grand hotel / Rome / Tuesday."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Informing him that he will be arriving in Florence later than he originally hoped and asking if he would forward mail to him in Rome; referring to their mutual friend Taccini; concluding "Rome is divinely cool & soft & still & pleasant - & this hotel most hygienic."
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