BIB_ID
397141
Accession number
MA 8732.46
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
[1894 May 30].
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 on stationery embossed "34, De Vere Gardens. W." James has crossed through the London address and written above it "Grand Hotel / Rome / Wednesday."
Written on stationery embossed "34, De Vere Gardens. W." James has crossed through the London address and written above it "Grand Hotel / Rome / Wednesday."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Thanking him for "...the beautiful packet of letters & the so interesting news of your house. My thoughts hover around it today & I call down blessings and comforts on it. Do, very kindly, at your entire convenience, let me have a word or two about your developments. Believe how much I am already with you. How characteristic of dear Mrs. Bronson's vagueness in her 'exact' information! It was revealed to her from heaven that you had 'developed' a fortnight ago! Hence, after taking this in, my great takings-for-granted in writing to you on Sunday. But I take everything good for granted now. I shall leave you in peace, however, for some days & descend upon you only next week on some day yet to be designated. I am informed from London that a printer's proof (Osgood, McIlvaine) has come to me - at your door; & I am wondering whether you will have liberty of mind enough to re-address it simply to me here - just as it is, of course - & let Raffaello post it? All this at your convenience. Kindly let the letters - if there are any more - accumulate a little till there are enough for you to put into an envelope like those I thank you for today. I blush that you shld be troubled with such things at such a time."
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