BIB_ID
397231
Accession number
MA 8732.61
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
1896 July 14.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 17.7 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 on stationery embossed "34, De Vere Gardens. /W." The address has been crossed through and above it James has written "Point Hill / Playden / Rye."
Written on stationery embossed "34, De Vere Gardens. /W." The address has been crossed through and above it James has written "Point Hill / Playden / Rye."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Expressing his happiness at knowing he is in England "...& on such a grand errand...I'm not in London. I have till July 28th this little, this very tiny cottage, where I've been for these 11 weeks, & I greatly hope you'll be able to spend a day with me here. On the 28th I am forced to give it up & then I go - close by - to The Vicarage, Rye - a position very inferior to it. Can't you come on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week? or better still, can't you come on Saturday 25th - till Monday? I long to see you. I am 2 hours & a 1/2 from town & the best train in the day is the 4.30 from Charing cross. Could you come even for the day - by, in that case, the 9 a.m. from C.C. - returning in the evening? Do try - any days but the 18th & 19th; & the 23d. May you roll in triumph & in guineas! If I could I wd. go [on] a bike tour with you - for I've a machine & I've begun! But I'm too busy, & too rudimentary.
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