The complete letters of Henry James, 1887-1888

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The complete letters of Henry James, 1887-1888

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

（The complete letters of Henry James）

University of Nebraska Press, c2022

  • v. 1 : hardback

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Summary: "This sixteenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James's more than ten thousand letters records James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, engage timely political and economic issues, and maximize his income"--Provided by publisher

Summary: "This first volume in The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1887-1888 contains 154 letters, of which 94 are published for the first time, written from early January to December 22, 1887. These letters mark Henry James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, engage timely political and economic issues, and maximize his income. James details work on "The Aspern Papers," Partial Portraits, and plans The Reverberator. This volume opens with James in the midst of a long sojourn in Italy and concludes with his inquiring about both the status of his essay to the American Copyright League and also the story "The Liar""--Provided by publisher

Vol. 1. 1887

Includes index

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This first volume in The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1887-1888 contains 154 letters, of which 94 are published for the first time, written from early January to December 22, 1887. These letters mark Henry James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, engage timely political and economic issues, and maximize his income. James details work on "The Aspern Papers," Partial Portraits, and plans The Reverberator. This volume opens with James in the midst of a long sojourn in Italy and concludes with his inquiring about both the status of his essay to the American Copyright League and also the story "The Liar."

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Acknowledgments Introduction Symbols and Abbreviations Chronology Errata 1887 1 January to c. 21 July 1887 To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin 4 January To Linda White Mazini Villari 19 January To Katharine de Kay Bronson 20 January To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 21 January To Robert Louis Stevenson 21 January To Katharine de Kay Bronson 22 January To Katharine de Kay Bronson 25 January To Grace Norton 26 January To Katharine de Kay Bronson 26 January To Margaret Tod Cantagalli 27 January To Robert Underwood Johnson 27 January To Edith Peruzzi 28 January To Eleanor Frances Poynter 31 January To Walter Herries Pollock 5 February To Katharine de Kay Bronson 6 February To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin 7 February To Eliza Lynn Linton 18 February To Katharine de Kay Bronson 18 February To William James 25 February To Edwin Lawrence Godkin 25 February To William Dean Howells 26 February To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands 26 February To Catharine Walsh 26 February To Catharine Walsh 27 February To Grace Norton 27 February To Sarah Butler Wister 28 February To Katharine Peabody Loring March To Laura Wagniere 1 March To James Russell Lowell 2 March To George du Maurier 8 March To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin 13 March To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin 15 March To Francis Boott 23 March To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin 6 April To Francis Boott 7 April To William James 11 April To Robert Underwood Johnson 12 April To John Milton Hay 12 April To Hannah Locker-Lampson 13 April to 25 May 1887 To Somerset Beaumont 14 April To Ellen "Nellie" Epps Gosse 23 April To Katharine de Kay Bronson 23 April To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis 24 April To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis 24 April To Alice Howe Gibbens James 24 April To Edmund Gosse 24 April To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands 25 April To Felix Moscheles 25 April To Sir 2 May To Robert Underwood Johnson 3 May To Katharine de Kay Bronson 3 May To William James 3 May To James Russell Lowell 15 May To Robert Louis Stevenson 16 May To Robert Louis Stevenson 20 May To Frances "Fanny" Anne Kemble 22 May To Linda White Mazini Villari 23 May To Violet Paget 23 May To Laura Wagniere June 1887 To Robert Louis Stevenson 12 June To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 13 June To Robert Underwood Johnson 14 June To John White Alexander 16 June To James Russell Lowell 16 June To Catharine Walsh 18 June To Juliet Trower 21 June To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 24 June To Katharine de Kay Bronson 28 June To Robert Underwood Johnson July 1887 To Robert Louis Stevenson 3 July To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis 9 July To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis 21 July To John Milton Hay 21 July To Eliot Norton 22 July To Isabella Stewart Gardner 22 July To John Milton Hay 23 July To Grace Norton 26 July To Isabella Stewart Gardner 26 July To Catharine Walsh 27 July To Charles Eliot Norton 28 July To John Milton Hay 28 July To Frances "Fanny" van de Grift Stevenson 2 August 1887-89 To Lillian June Bailey Henschel 2 August To Robert Louis Stevenson 3 August To Edmund Gosse 5 August To James Ripley Osgood 7 August To Elizabeth Blakeway Smith 10 August To Mary Theresa Mundella 10 August To James Ripley Osgood 11 August To Frances "Fanny" van de Grift Stevenson 17 August To Edmund Gosse 17 August To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands 17 August To Frances "Fanny" van de Grift Stevenson 18 August To Theodore E. Child 18 August To Katharine Peabody Loring 18 August To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands 19 August To Edmund Gosse 23 August To Florence Bell 23 August To John Milton Hay 29 August To Florence Bell 31 August To Edmund Gosse 7 September To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis 7 September To Daniel Sargent Curtis 9 September To Sidney Colvin 17 September To Katharine de Kay Bronson 17 September To Charles Eliot Norton 20 September To Theodore E. Child 20 September To Elizabeth "Lily" Millet 20 September To Elizabeth "Lily" Norton 21 September To Sidney Colvin 24 September To Samuel Dana Horton 24 September To Samuel Dana Horton 27 September To Samuel Dana Horton 27 September To Henrietta Reubell 27 September To Catharine Walsh 28 September To Elizabeth "Lily" Millet October Robert Louis Stevenson 1, 5 October To William James 7 October To Sarah Butler Wister 19 October To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 19 October To Isabella Stewart Gardner 19 October To Frederick Macmillan 20 October To Isabella Stewart Gardner 20 October To Isabella Stewart Gardner 20 October To Robert Louis Stevenson 21 October To Frederick Macmillan 28 October To Robert Underwood Johnson 30 October To Alice Stopford Green 30 October To Margaret Oliphant 30 October To Henrietta Reubell 12 November To Edwin Austen Abbey 12 November To Thomas Bailey Aldrich 13 November To Elizabeth Boott 13 November To Robert Underwood Johnson 15 November To American Copyright League 15 November To Robert Underwood Johnson 17 November To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 21 November To Henrietta Reubell 23 November To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 24 November To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands 29 November To Lillian June Bailey Henschel 30 November To Frederick Macmillan 30 November To Urbain Mengin 5 December To Isabella Stewart Gardner 5 December To Robert Louis Stevenson 8 December To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 11 December To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 18 December To Ariana Randolph Wormeley and Daniel Sargent Curtis 18 December To Edmund Gosse 18 December To Robert Louis Stevenson 18 December To Owen Wister 19 December To Robert Underwood Johnson 19 December To Henrietta Reubell 22 December To Robert Underwood Johnson Biographical Register General Editors' Note Works Cited

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