The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883-1884 : Volume 1

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. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents 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 Volume 1. 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. -- Volume 2. 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 This volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883-1884 includes 174 letters, of which 116 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. This thirteenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James’s more than ten thousand letters records James’s work on his 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.