BIB_ID
431146
Accession number
MA 1617.198
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Display Date
London, England, 1878 October 6.
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Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 20.3 x 12.6 cm
Notes
This letter is one of ten letters from James to Henley written between March 9, 1878 and June 21, 1879.
The year and specific date of writing identified by Greg W. Zacharias, co-Editor of The Complete Letters of Henry James 1878-1880 cited below.
Written from "3, Bolton Street."
The year and specific date of writing identified by Greg W. Zacharias, co-Editor of The Complete Letters of Henry James 1878-1880 cited below.
Written from "3, Bolton Street."
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Saying "Here is the little Americo-"Europeans", with the author's kind regards, which I am afraid of writing inside, lest the post should protest. I read your paper on Tgff; many weeks since, with a great deal of pleasure, & I hope you are likely to get to work at the longer article you proposed. The other was full of well-said things. He will bear a great deal of talking about, & of his manner of writing there has never been enough in England. I wish George Eliot were a little more like him - I have it on my conscience to say that I don't particularly know George Meredith - I haven't read "Richard Feverel" but have made a note of it - a good play is a good thing, & I wish all prosperity to yours. Attend well to those French devils, who know everything that can be known about the Dramatic Art (I mean the art of the drama,) for modern conditions : Dumas fils, Emile Augier, even Sardou. I am a great admirer of Dumas fils, & think the "Demi-Monde" & the "Fils Naturel" the 1st modern Comedies. Have you read Sardou's "Haine"? If you haven't Emile Augier I will gladly lend him to you. Have you found the missing Tgffs? - I hope you are finding work to your need, & contentment, & have no particularly actual grievance against fate."
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