BIB_ID
397287
Accession number
MA 8732.71
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
"Saturday" [1899 July 22].
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.8 x 17.8 cm + envelope
Notes
James has simply dated the letter as "Saturday"; the date of writing is from the postmark.
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 "Lamb House, / Rye."
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 "Lamb House, / Rye."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Confirming plans for Baldwin's visit to Rye; saying "...I think it well to follow up my telegram with these words of iteration. I trust the telegram - H. Metropole - safely & frantically reached you...Again & again all these months, have I wondered about you - & now it's rather a sorry tale you unfold. But I shall try to make it do you some good simply to see me. Try this remedy as soon as possible. I went to Rome the 1st days of last May (was there all May & June) but you had ruthlessly vanished. The 5.15 from St. Paul's is the best train hither but the 11 a.m. from Charing X is also good - excellent also the 4.28 from the same. Only wire and come."
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