Accession number
PML 179464
Creator
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Published
[London : The Chiswick Press, 1913]
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Notes
The names of 269 subscribers are printed on pages [2-4].
Description
1 folded leaf ; 27.5 x 21.5 cm
Provenance
H.G. Wells's copies of the James letter and the subscribers' circular, designated for Wells in pencil by Percy Lubbock; The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Acknowledging his "dear friends all" for the receipt of their "singularly generous and beautiful letter" on his birthday, April 15, 1913, and accepting their expressed gifts of an "inestimable bowl" and a portrait of James to be painted by John Singer Sargent. The author elaborates further on his "social experience" with the friends and admirers among the subscribers, saying "I was drawn to London long years ago as by the sense, felt from still earlier, of all the interest and association I should find here, and I now see how my faith was to sink deeper foundations than I could presume ever to measure..." .
Binding
Unbound folded leaf. Housed with circular in archival folder.
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