BIB_ID
397234
Accession number
MA 8732.62
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
[1896 July 26].
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.3 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 addressed has been crossed through and above it James has written "Point Hill / Playden / Sussex / Sunday."
Written on stationery embossed "34, De Vere Gardens. / W." The addressed has been crossed through and above it James has written "Point Hill / Playden / Sussex / Sunday."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Concerning the logistics of Baldwin's visit to Playden and explaining the logistical problem with the date Baldwin has proposed; saying "I give up, alas, to its returning proprietor, this dear little perch on Wednesday next. I move out of it, woefully, to the Vicarage, Rye (only 1/2 a mile distant) which to save a more troublesome move, I have taken for August. So that I fear that on Tuesday or Wednesday, when my servants are to be packing & cursing here -or unpacking & cursing still more there, I shouldn't make you comfortable. Could you by a miracle, come down tomorrow, Monday, by the 11 a.m. from Charing X which (changing at Ashford) would put you here at 1.29. That would give us together all the rest of the day & evening - & this cottage is a place so much prettier (on a hilltop with a terrace on which I eat, & a lovely view) then the shabby & prosaic Vicarage - in a little Rye street. In that case, wire me (Point Hill - Rye) as early as you can. I will of course meet you at Rye Station;" suggesting several alternate plans if he cannot come as he proposes.
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