BIB_ID
397176
Accession number
MA 8732.51
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
"Sunday" [1894] Aug. 19.
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Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 17.9 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 "Trigenna Castle Hotel / St. Ives. Cornwall."
Written from "Trigenna Castle Hotel / St. Ives. Cornwall."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Concerning Baldwin's return from the United States; saying "The best news in your letter from Great Bend [Pennsylvania] is that you are quitting it - I mean have so emphatically quitted it that this, which goes to London tonight, will almost meet you at Founder's Court. You have all my sympathy both in your sufferings and your consolations. I am very glad indeed to hear of the well-being of your father & mother as among the comforts. But how sinister a fate to escape from the temperature of Tuscany only to plunge into that of the 'Middle States' - damn 'em! May your voyage on the big straight [SS] Paris have fanned all worries away. I am sorry to be so far from London - all the sorrier that I am not very particularly repaid for it in this disappointingly cold place. I came here a week ago & I have committed myself to stay at least another - that is till tomorrow (Monday) week, about and at least. Won't you let me know, by a word at your first leisure, how long you shall probably be in Town? - for a certain number of days I hope. If it's possible I will get back in time to see you - but in one way or another I have no appetite for London before Oct. 1st. However, I must be there for 3 or 4 days soon. I would suggest your coming down here for a day or two, were the journey not so outrageously long and the reward, on your arrival, rather questionable. It is 10 hours from Paddington by the express - night or day - and the charm of St. Ives (which I see for the 1st time) scarcely great enough to justify such a sacrifice. I myself shall have done with it at my earliest convenience. What are your own movements?...Will you give me, if you can, the latest couple of days at which my return to London will find you?"
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