Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880–1883

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author and literary critic. He wrote some two dozen novels, including Portrait of a Lady and The Golden Bowl and left behind more than ten thousand letters. Michael Anesko is a professor of English and American studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is a general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James and the author, most recently, of Generous Mistakes: Incidents of Error in Henry James. 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 editor of A Companion to Henry James and the coeditor of Tracing Henry James. Katie Sommer has been an associate editor of the Complete Letters of Henry James series since 2007 and has worked on the Henry James letters project since 2001.

• The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880-1883, volume 2, contains 177 letters, of which 97 are published for the first time. Each letter is followed by previous publication information or a note that there is no previous publication.Acknowledgments    000Symbols and Abbreviations    000Chronology        000Errata        0001881[November 1, 1881-April 25, 1882, or December 26, 1882-August 7, 1883]    To Elizabeth Ellery Sedgwick Child    000November 1    To William Dean Howells    000November 3    To Houghton, Mifflin and Company    000November 5    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    000November 5    To Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.    000November 5    To Houghton, Mifflin and Company    000November 6    To Marian “Clover” Hooper Adams    000[November 6, 1881, November 20, 1881, or February 5, 1882]    To Grace Norton    000[November 9]    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    000[November 10, 1881, November 24, 1881, or February 9, 1882]    To Grace Norton    000[November 14]    To Grace Norton    000[November 14]    To George Abbot James    000[November 15, 1881-January 7, 1882] To Mary Sherwin Gibbens    000[November 16]    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    000November 17    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    000November 17    To Frederick Macmillan    000November 18    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    000November 19    To George Abbot James    000[November 20]    To Thomas Sergeant Perry    000November 21    To Abby Alger    000November 23    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    000November 23    To Houghton, Mifflin and Company    000[November 24]    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    000November 25    To Elinor Mead Howells    000[November 27]    To Elizabeth Ellery Sedgwick Child    000[November 28]    To Elinor Mead Howells    000[November 28]    To Thomas Sergeant Perry    000[November 30]    To Thomas Sergeant Perry    000[November 30]    To George Abbot James    000December 3    To Charles Strong     000December 5    To Robert Grant    000December 6    To William Dean Howells    000December 7    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    000December 8    To Houghton, Mifflin and Company    000December 10    To Julia Ward Howe    000December 13    To Grace Norton    000[December 18]    To Helena de Kay Gilder    000[December 18]    To Whitelaw Reid    000December 20    To Henry Adams    000December 26    To Whitelaw Reid    000December 27    To Henry Adams    000December 27    To Frederick Macmillan    000December 29    To Whitelaw Reid    000December 30    To Frederick Macmillan    0001882January 1    To Edwin Lawrence Godkin    000January 7    To Thomas Sergeant Perry    000January 7    To William Ralston    000January 8    To Sir John Forbes Clark    000January 9    To William Dean Howells    000January 9    To Henrietta Reubell    000January 10    To Grace Norton    000January 15    To Edwin Lawrence Godkin    000January 15    To Jane Dalzell Finlay Hill    000January 22    To Edwin Lawrence Godkin    000January 22    To Mary Walsh James    000January 23    To Sir John Forbes Clark    000January 23    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    000January 23    To Thomas Sergeant Perry    000January 27    To Robertson James    000January 27    To Houghton, Mifflin and Company    000[January 29] To Mary Walsh James    000[February 2] To George Abbot James    000[February 3] To Francis James Child    000February 3    To Edwin Lawrence Godkin    000[February 3] To Isabella Stewart Gardner    000[February 3] To Thomas Sergeant Perry    000February 7    To Charles Eliot Norton    000February 7    To Julia Ward Howe    000[February 8] To George Abbot James    000February 10    To Caroline Dall    000February 10    To George Abbot James    000February 12    To Unidentified    000February 13    To Mary James Wilkinson Mathews    000February 14    To Elizabeth Boott    000[February 14-April 25, 1882] To Daniel Chester French    000February 17    To Helena de Kay Gilder    000February 20    To George Abbot James    000February 27    To Edwin Lawrence Godkin    000February 27    To Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord Rosebery    000[March 3, 10, or 17] To Grace Norton    000March 4    To William B. Closson    000March 4    To William Jones Hoppin    000March 4    To Henrietta Reubell    000March 7    To Abbott Handerson Thayer    000March 11    To Unidentified    000[March 18]To Edwin Lawrence Godkin    000[March 23]To Grace Norton    000March 29    To Isabella Stewart Gardner     000March 29    To Arthur George Sedgwick    000April 5    To John Milton Hay    000April 5    To Frances “Fanny” Anne Kemble    000April 7    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    000April 11    To Grace Norton    000April 11    To Thomas Sergeant Perry    000April 12    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    000April 14    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    000[April 16]To Isabella Stewart Gardner    000[April 16 or 17] To Isabella Stewart Gardner    000[April 17]To Isabella Stewart Gardner    000April 18    To Julia Ward Howe    000April 20    To Francis J. Garrison    000April 20    To Edmund Clarence Stedman    000April 24    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    000April 25    To Owen Wister    000April 28    To Edward Waldo Emerson    000[April 29] To Thomas Sergeant Perry    000[May 3]    To Elizabeth Ellery Sedgwick Child    000May 25    To Grace Norton    000May 25    To Mary Lucinda Holton James    000May 26    To William Ralston    000June 1    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    000June 5    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    000June 5    To Edwin Lawrence Godkin    000June 14    To Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis    000June 16    To Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis    000June 20    To Eliza Lynn Linton    000June 27    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    000July 3    To Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis    000July 6    To Frank    000July 12    To Frederick Macmillan    000July 23    To Eliza Lynn Linton    000July 27    To Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis    000July 28    To William Dean Howells                000July 31    To Henry James Sr.    000[August 1]To William Dean Howells    000August 2    To Elizabeth Boott    000August 2    To Edmund Gosse    000August 2    To Grace Norton    000[August 4]To William Dean Howells    000August 8    To William Dean Howells    000[August 10]To William Dean Howells    000August 12    To William Dean Howells    000August 12    To William Jones Hoppin    000August 19    To William Dean Howells    000August 29    To Thomas Bailey Aldrich    000August 29    To James Ripley Osgood    000September 3    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    000September 3    To Henrietta Reubell    000September 10    To Moncure Daniel Conway    000September 11    To Henrietta Reubell    000September 11    To Moncure Daniel Conway    000September 14    To William Dean Howells    000October 4    To James Ripley Osgood    000October 7    To Elizabeth Boott    000October 15    To William James    000October 15    To William Dean Howells    000October 16    To Alice Howe Gibbens James    000October 17    To Grace Norton    000October 28    To Henrietta Reubell    000November 8    To James Ripley Osgood    000November 12    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    000November 13    To Sir John Forbes Clark    000November 22    To Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield    000November 22    To William Henry Huntington    000November 26    To John Milton Hay    000November 27    To William Dean Howells    000[November 30] To Theodore E. Child    000November 30    To William Dean Howells    000December 1    To Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis    000December 5    To John Milton Hay    000December 5    To Theodore E. Child    000December 5    To Henrietta Reubell    000December 6    To Robertson James    000December 8    To Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis    000December 10    To Edmund Gosse    000[December 11] To Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis    000[December 21, 1882-January 4, 1883] To Charles Eliot Norton    000[December 24, 1882-August 12, 1883] To George Abbot James    000December 26, 27    To William James    000December 26    To Frederick Macmillan    000December 28, 29    To William James    000December 29    To Gertrude Bloede    000December 30    To Robertson James    000December 30    To Grace Norton    000December 30    To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley    0001883January 1    To William James    000January 1    To James Ripley Osgood    000Biographical Register    000General Editors’ Note    000Works Cited    000Index    000