The complete letters of Henry James, 1883-1884

Author(s)

• James, Henry
• Anesko, Michael
• Zacharias, Greg W.
• Sommer, Katie
• Lawrence, Kathleen

Bibliographic Information

The complete letters of Henry James, 1883-1884

Henry James ; edited by Michael Anesko and Greg W. Zacharias ; associate editor, Katie Sommer ; with an introduction by Kathleen Lawrence

（The complete letters of Henry James）

University of Nebraska Press, c2018-c2019

• v. 1 : hardcover
• v. 2 : hardcover

Note

Vol. 1. Jan. 2, 1883-Jan. 29, 1884 -- v. 2. Jan. 29, 1884-Nov. 9, 1884

"Modern Language Association MLA. An approved edition. Committee on Scholary Editions"--T.p. verso of v. 2

2 v. (lxi, 367 ; xxv, 325 p.)

Includes bibliographical references (v. 2. p. 293-306) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 : hardcover ISBN 9781496206435

Description

This volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883-1884 includes 178 letters, of which 117 are published for the first time, written from January 2, 1883, to January 29, 1884. The letters trace the development of Henry James's literary career as well as the maturation of his international reputation as a public figure. They also record James's recovery following the deaths of his parents and brother, the difficult execution of his father's will, and his return to England from an extended stay in the United States. This volume concludes with James's continuing efforts to maximize his writing income.

Table of Contents

• The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883-1884, volume 1, contains 173 letters, of which 115 are published for the first time. Each letter is followed by previous publication information or a note that there is no previous publication. Acknowledgments Introduction: Restless Ambition
• A Cosmopolite Author at the Height of His Powers, by Kathleen Lawrence Symbols and Abbreviations Chronology Errata 1883 January 2 To Florence Bayard Lockwood January 3 To James Ripley Osgood [January 4-April 5] To Isabella Stewart Gardner [January 5-April 6] To Isabella Stewart Gardner [January 5-March 31] To Lillian June Bailey Henschel [January 7-April 1] To Thomas Bailey Aldrich January 8 To William James [January 11] To Isabella Stewart Gardner January 11 To Robertson James January 11 To William James January 12 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich [January 14] To Thomas Bailey Aldrich January 23 To William James January 25 To William James January 26 To Helena de Kay Gilder January 27 To James Stoddart Bain January 27 To Frederick Macmillan [January 29] To Thomas Sergeant Perry [c. January 30] To Thomas Sergeant Perry February 1 To Frances "Fanny" Anne Kemble February 5 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich February 5 To Mary Elizabeth "Lilian" Woodman Aldrich February 5 To Caroline Dall February 5 To John Milton Hay February 5 To William James February 5 To Frederick Macmillan February 7 To William James February 11 To William James February 12 To Louisa Lawrence [February 12-June 11] To Grace Norton [February 18-August 12]To Grace Norton February 21 To George Washburn Smalley February 21 To John Wilson and Son February 23 To Thomas Sergeant Perry February 27 To Thomas Sergeant Perry February 28 To Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams March 2 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company March 5 To Rhoda Broughton March 5 To Unknown March 7 To Henry C. Ahlborn March 13 To Richard Watson Gilder March 15 To Sir George Henschel March 18 To Richard Watson Gilder March 20 To William Dean Howells March 27 To Elizabeth Boott March 29 To Frederick Macmillan March 30 To Alice Stopford Green April 2 To Edmund Gosse April 8 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich April 8 To James Ripley Osgood April 12 To Francis Boott [April 15] To Grace Norton April 17 To George Du Maurier April 18 To Julia Colt Pierson Emmet April 19 To Frederick Macmillan April 19 To James Ripley Osgood April 22 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich April 26 To Charles Hamilton Aide April 26 To Grace Norton May 2 To Robertson James May 2 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company May 2 To Grace Norton May 2 To Thomas Sergeant Perry May 4 To Lillian June Bailey Henschel May 5 To James Ripley Osgood May 5 To James Ripley Osgood [May 7-July 9] To Thomas Bailey Aldrich May 8 To Frederick Macmillan May 9 To Emma Lazarus May [13] To Emma Lazarus [May 17 or 24] To Grace Norton May 17 To James Ripley Osgood [May 20 or 27] To Grace Norton May 22 To James Ripley Osgood [c. May 23 or June 6, 13, 20, 1883] To Grace Norton May 24 To John Milton Hay May 24 To Grace Norton [May 25] To Grace Norton May 29 To Grace Norton June 1 To Grace Norton June 4 To Robertson James June 7 To Louisa Lawrence June 9 To Elizabeth Palmer Peabody June 10 To Charles Hamilton Aide June 11 To Frederick Macmillan June 15 To Annie Adams Fields June 15 To George Abbot James June 16 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company June 16 To Louisa Lawrence June 16 To Christina Stewart Rogerson June 16 To Hannah de Rothschild Primrose, Lady Rosebery June 16 To Ellen Twisleton Parkman Vaughan June 18 To Sir John Forbes Clark June 20 To Robertson James June 23 To George Pellew June 24 To Caroline Sturgis Tappan June 26 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich June 27 To Henrietta Reubell June 28 To Sarah Wyman Whitman July 8 To Thomas Sergeant Perry July 10 To Sir John Forbes Clark July 10 To George Abbot James July 10 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor [July 14] To George Abbot James [July 14] To Grace Norton July 18 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich July 21 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich July 22 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich July 22 To Whitelaw Reid July 26 To Francis Boott July 26 To George Abbot James July 27 To Whitelaw Reid July 28 To Grace Norton August 8 To Grace Norton August 8 To Whitelaw Reid August 10 To Thomas Sergeant Perry August 16 To Mary Cadwalader Jones August 17 To William James August 18 To John Milton Hay August 19 To Grace Norton August 21 To Sarah Wyman Whitman [after September 1] To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley September 2 To Emma Lazarus September 5 To Elizabeth Thompson [September 5, 1883-March 3, 1886] To Alice Stopford Green September 6 To Sir John Forbes Clark September 10 To Charles Eliot Norton September 10 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor September 15 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich September 20 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich October 1 To Theodore E. Child October 10 To Theodore E. Child October 10 To Sir John Forbes Clark October 10 To William James October 11 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich October 13 To Henrietta Reubell October 14 To Elizabeth Boott October 14 To Alice Stopford Green October 15 To John Eliot Bowen October 19 To Maurice Crawford Macmillan October 24 To Walter Herries Pollock October 24 To Christina Stewart Rogerson October 25 To William James October 27 To Louisa Lawrence October 29 To Grace Norton October 31 To James Ripley Osgood November 2 To Frederick Macmillan November 6 To James Ripley Osgood November 7 To Edmund Gosse November 8 To Ellen "Nellie" Epps Gosse November 14 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich November 14 To Grace Norton November 24 To William James November 25 To Thomas Sergeant Perry December 2 To Robertson James December 3 To Virginia Clark Waring December 8 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley December 11 To Elizabeth Boott December 11 To Grace Norton December 11 To Dr. James John Garth Wilkinson December 12, [1883 or 1885] To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley December 12, [1883 or 1885] To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley December 13 To Circe [15 December 1883] To Dr. James John Garth Wilkinson December 17 To Alice Stopford Green December 26 To Editors of the Galaxy December 26 To Edmund Gosse 1884 January [1-29] To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward January 6 To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands January 7 To Alice Stopford Green January 15 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley January 16 To Juliet Creed, Lady Pollock January 16 To William Ralston Shedden-Ralston January 19 To Grace Norton January 24 To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands January 25 To William James January 29 To Frederick Macmillan Biographical Register General Editors' Note Works Cited Index

Volume

v. 2 : hardcover ISBN 9781496215109

Description

This volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883-1884 includes 125 letters, of which 72 are published for the first time, written from January 29, 1884, to November 9, 1884. The letters mark Henry James's confidence and achievements as an internationally important professional writer, including his participation in conceiving and carrying out with editors and publishers complicated plans to distribute his work and maximize his income. James details his work on mid-career novels The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima as well as work on a number of tales that would help to define his career. This volume concludes with James's anticipation of the arrival in England from the United States of his sister, Alice, who would never again return to her homeland.

Table of Contents

• The Complete Letters of Henry James, 18831884, volume 2, contains 125 letters, of which 72 are published for the first time. Each letter is followed by previous publication information or a note that there is no previous publication. Acknowledgments Symbols and Abbreviations Chronology Errata 1884 January 29 To James Ripley Osgood January 30 To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands February 1 To Richard Watson Gilder February 5 To Alice James February 5 To Emma Lazarus February 7 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich February 7 To Edmund Gosse February 7 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company February 7 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor February 9 To Theodore E. Child February 13 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich February 20 To William James February 21 To William Dean Howells February 21 To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward February 22 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin February 22
• misdated January To John Addington Symonds February 23 To Grace Norton February 26 To Henrietta Reubell February 29 To Alice James February 29 To Theodore E. Child March 3 To William James March 6 To Thomas Sergeant Perry March 8 To Theodore E. Child March 9 To Florence Wilkinson Mathews March 9 To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands March 10 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor March 14 To Edwin Austin Abbey and Alfred Parsons March 18 To George Du Maurier March 19 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich March 19 To Theodore E. Child March 21 To Charles Scribner's Sons March 22 To William James March 26 To William James March 29
• misdated 20 To Alice James March 29 To Sir Charles Archer Cook March 29, 31 To Grace Norton April 5 To Jane Dalzell Finlay Hill April 14 To Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord Rosebery April 16 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich April 16 To Lawrence Barrett April 16 To Charles Scribner's Sons April 16 To Mary and Louisa Lawrence April 16 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor April 21 To William James April 21 To Louisa Lawrence April 21 To J. Cotter Morison May 2 To Katharine de Kay Bronson May 2 To Isabella Stewart Gardner May 3 To Alice James May 4 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis May 6, 7 To Grace Norton May 7 To James Bryce May 7 To John Milton Hay May 12 To Eveleen Tennant Myers May 13 To Edmund Gosse May 15 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company May 16 To Eveleen Tennant Myers May 20 To Eleanor Mary Sellar May 22 To Thomas Sergeant Perry May 23 To Alice Howe Gibbens James May 23 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor May 26 To William James May 28 To James Russell Lowell June 2 To Elizabeth Boott June 3 To Charles Eliot Norton June 5 To Edmund Gosse June 5 To John Milton Hay June 6 To James Payn June 9 To Edmund Gosse June 10 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley June 12 To George Washburn Smalley June 17 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin June 17 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor June 19 To Alphonse Daudet June 19 To George Du Maurier June 21 To Isabella Stewart Gardner June 24 To Edmund Gosse June 25 To Sir William Henry Gregory July 1 To Charles Eliot Norton July 3 To William Jones Hoppin July 5 To Jessie Percy Butler Duncan Phipps July 5 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor July 12 To Edwin Austin Abbey July 14 To Sir Edward Bruce Hamley July 14 To Thomas Wemyss Reid July 15 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis July 16 or 23 To Isabella Stewart Gardner July 18 To Lawrence Barrett July 18 To Edmund Gosse July 24 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley July 26 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley July 31 To Edgar Fawcett July 31 To Richard Watson Gilder July 31 To William Dean Howells July 31 To Violet Paget July 31 To Olivia Brown Walsh August 1 To Francis Boott August 2 To Grace Norton August 5 To Sir August 15 To James Ripley Osgood August 21 To Elizabeth Mary Rose-Innes Santley August 21 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley August 26 To Frederick Macmillan September 3 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley September 4 To Edmund Gosse September 15 To Madam September 16 To George Du Maurier September 16 To Henrietta Reubell September 16 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley September 18 To Edmund Gosse September 26 To Thomas Sergeant Perry September 26 To Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord Rosebery September 26 to November 14 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley September 28 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor October 2, 5 To Katharine Sands Godkin October 2 To Marcus Bourne Huish October 2 To Louisa Putnam Loring October 5 To William James October 9 To James Russell Lowell October 21 To Violet Paget October 31 To William James November 1 To Henrietta Reubell November 3 To Grace Norton November 6 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley November 9 To Benjamin Holt Ticknor Biographical Register General Editors' Note Works Cited Index

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Details

• NCID: BB27419574
• ISBN:
  • 9781496206435
  • 9781496215109
• LCCN: 2017048535
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Lincoln
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS2123
  • DC23 : 826/.8
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Correspondence
  • LCSH : Authors, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence
  • LCSH : Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA80209508