BIB_ID
397174
Accession number
MA 8732.50
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
[1894] June 29.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.5 x 11.0 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 "Casa Biondetti / S. Vio / Venice."
Written from "Casa Biondetti / S. Vio / Venice."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Discussing Baldwin's recent trip to England; saying "I am very sorry you have had to make such heroic journeys in so few days - but I hope they have had their compensations - in fact that they 'mean millions' to you. May they also have had some incidental interest & pleasure. My little week with you & our drives to the Villas will already seem to you far away. I staid 3 days in Bologna on my way hither - I still felt so feeble. But I picked up there & am now completely well again - the more so that I have just paid a lovely little visit to Mrs. Bronson at Asolo. Venice is still very decently cool & I linger from day to day. A week hence, however, I shall be in Switzerland. Meanwhile you are scrambling over scar and mountains & beginning another exploit as soon as you have finished the last. What a pity you have not been free to sail from England - since you've had to go. But such is life. I shall never forget our drives to Settignano & Villa Gran Duca! I hope you will find your house in good order on your return. Don't neglect or forget, to write me from American before you sail."
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