Henry James (1843–1916) wrote short stories, plays, literary criticism, travel essays and is most famous for his many novels, which include The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl. American born, he spent considerable time in England and eventually became a British subject. When he died he left behind more than ten thousand letters.Pierre A. Walker is a professor of English at Salem State College. He is the editor of Henry James on Culture: Collected Essays on Politics and the American Social Scene, available in a Bison Books edition, and the author of Reading Henry James in French Cultural Contexts. Greg W. Zacharias is a professor of English and the founder and director of the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University. He is the author of Henry James and the Morality of Fiction and editor of A Companion to Henry James.

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• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction by Millicent Bell Symbols and Abbreviations Chronology Errata 1872 May 20 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James May 23 To Mary Walsh James May 24 To Grace Norton May 29 To Henry James Sr. June 1 To Charles Eliot Norton June 4 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James June 11, 12, 13 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James June 19, 20 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James June 22 To Grace Norton June 28, 29 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James July 2 To Elizabeth Boott July 5, 6 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James July 13 To Mary Walsh James July 14 To Charles Eliot Norton July 21 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James July 24, 28 To William James July 28 To Henry James Sr. July 28 To Grace Norton August 5; misdated August 14 To Mary Walsh James August 8 To Grace Norton August 11 To Henry James Sr. August 13 To Elizabeth Boott August 18 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James August 25, 26 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James August 31, September 3 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James September 9 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James September 11 To Charles Eliot Norton September 15, 16 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James September 19 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James September 22, 28 To William James September 29 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James October 10 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James October 28 To Alice James early November To Henry James Sr. November 5 To Grace Norton November 16 To Elizabeth Boott November 19 To Charles Eliot Norton December 1, 2; misdated November 31, December 1 To William James December 9 To Henry James Sr. December 14 To Elizabeth Boott December 14 To Wendell Phillips Garrison December 16 To Alice James December 25 To Henry James Sr. December 29 To Mary Walsh James 1873 January 1 To Thomas Sergeant Perry January 8 To William James January 8 To Henry James Sr. January 15 To Grace Norton January 19 To Henry James Sr. January 24 To Thomas Sergeant Perry January 25April 2 To Elizabeth Boott January 26, 27 To Mary Walsh James February 1 To Henry James Sr. February 10 To Alice James February 17 To Mary Walsh James February 18 To Jane Norton March 4 To Henry James Sr. March 5 To Grace Norton March 13 To Charles Eliot Norton March 24 To Mary Walsh James March 28; misdated February 28 To Henry James Sr. March 31 To Charles Eliot Norton April 9 To William James April 25, 26 To Alice James April 26 To Elizabeth Boott May 4 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James May 8 To Grace Norton May 9, 11 To Sarah Butler Wister May 19 To William James May 23 To Elizabeth Boott May 27 To Mary Walsh James May 31 To William James June 8, 11 To Alice James June 12, 13 1872; misdated June 11 To Elizabeth Boott June 18 To William James June 22 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James June 22 To William Dean Howells June 23 To Thomas Sergeant Perry June 29 To Henry James Sr. July 8 To Mary Lucinda Holton James Biographical Register Genealogies General Editors' Note Works Cited Index