BIB_ID
397143
Accession number
MA 8732.47
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
[1894 June 4].
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.2 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. Monday / a.m."
Written from the "Grand Hotel / Rome. Monday / a.m."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Asking him to keep the letters that may come for him a few days longer; relating his travel details to Naples and adding that he will write him from Naples with the exact day of his arrival in Florence; saying "I am, each day, thinking much about you - wondering, conjecturing, shaking your hand. I have been enjoying Rome so much that I have staid twice as long as I meant - & now this chance to have a free & quiet look at the Naples museum - & at Pompei & the whole place seen only hurriedly, in winter, in faraway years, irresistibly solicits me. But it will be of the briefest & you will have more news of me in 2 or 3 days and then we shall have [a] long talk. Pazienza!"
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