BIB_ID
397183
Accession number
MA 8732.52
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
"Thursday" [1894 Aug. 23].
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (3 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 "St. Ives. Thursday."
Written from "St. Ives. Thursday."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Informing him that he will be in London "by Saturday night next late - for a day or two. I leave this place, where the weather has spoiled, and some of the other conditions are uncomfortable, on Saturday a.m. Won't you come to lunch on Sunday at 1.45? - in De Vere Gardens? - and won't your sister give me he pleasure of coming, if she is well enough?"
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