Complete Letters of Henry James, 1888–1891

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author and literary critic. He wrote some two dozen novels, including The 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 The Pennsylvania State University. He is a general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James series and the author of Henry James Framed: Material Representations of the Master (Nebraska, 2022), among other works.Greg W. Zacharias is a professor of English and the director of the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University. He is editor of the Henry James Review and of A Companion to Henry James.Katie Sommer has been associate editor of The Complete Letters of Henry James series since 2007 and has worked on the Henry James letters project since 2001.

“James is one of the few writers who could not have written a boring or imprecise word even if just writing a little letter to a friend. . . . This is a great addition to libraries of all sorts, and it should be inspiration for writers to browse through some of these letters to find another writer’s input on topics we all have to ponder.”—Anna Faktorovich, Pennsylvania Literary Journal "[These volumes have] meticulously researched notes. . . . The glimpses that the letters offer of James's conflictedness as a writer are among the volumes' most valuable features—contributing, as [Sarah] Wadsworth suggests, to a more humanizing portrait than 'the master' image propagated by twentieth-century critics. . . . Michael Anesko and Greg W. Zacharias's achievement amounts to a culmination; they have given us authoritative editions comprising all James's extant letters, complete with helpful contextual information."—Rafael Walker, Edith Wharton Review“These handsome volumes . . . [are] extraordinary resources.”—John Carlos Rowe, Resource for American Literary Study “At long last we now have a complete edition, which reproduces James’s own corrections as he was writing the letters and gives scrupulous annotations, ending with a biographical register of all correspondence. . . . Even at this early stage we can see how James used his letters to family and friends to strike stances relevant to his planned career. . . . [These volumes] set a very high standard for subsequent volumes to follow.”—David Seed, Journal of American Studies “The series is exemplary in its meticulous attention to details of what James wrote. . . . Despite the unconventional look of this text, the edition is highly readable, and the letters are supplemented by ample explanatory notes, as well as illustrations. . . . It is the distinctively modern status of James’s work and his self-conception that is particularly interesting for contemporary scholarship, and this modernity is amply attested to in this collection of letters, many of which, of course, have never previously been published.”—Guy Davidson, Australasian Journal of American Studies

• The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1888-1891, volume 2, contains 131 letters, of which 80 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 189023 April To Francis Boott 24 April To Emma Wightwick du Maurier 24 April To Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 24 April To Urbain Mengin 27 April To Violet Paget 28 April To Robert Louis Stevenson 1 May To William Morton Fullerton 3 May To Thoby Stephen 4 May To Frances “Fanny” Anne Kemble 7 May To William Morton Fullerton 15 May To Henrietta Reubell 15 May To Rhoda Broughton 15 May To William Morton Fullerton 15 May To Isabella Stewart Gardner 16 May To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis16 May To William James 17 May To Katharine de Kay Bronson 17 May To William Dean Howells 18 May To Grace Norton 18 May To James Russell Lowell 20 May To Katharine Louisa Cullen Boughton20 May To Joseph Cary James and Alice James Edgar 27 May To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis 29 May To Frederick Macmillan June-July To Linda White Mazini Villari 6 June To Alice James 10 June To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin 12 June To Francis Boott 13 June To Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory c. 20 June To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin23 June To John Milton Hay 23 June To William James 24 June To Isabella Stewart Gardner 24 June To Frances “Fanny” Anne Kemble 29 June To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis29 June To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 30 June To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin30 June, 3 July To Grace Norton 4 July To Theodore E. Child 7 July To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis7 July To Henrietta Reubell 9 July To Alice Howe Gibbens James19 July To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin19 July To Francis Boott 19 July To Daniel Sargent Curtis 20 July To The Aziola Club 20 July To Frederick Macmillan 20 July To Unknown 23 July To Frances “Fanny” Anne Kemble 23 July To William James 25 July To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin27 July To General Truman Seymour 27 July To William Dean Howells 31 July To Isabella Stewart Gardner 2 August To Isabella Stewart Gardner 9 August To Isabella Stewart Gardner 9 August To Henrietta Reubell 13 August To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell 16 August To Stopford Brooke 16 August To Edgar Fawcett 16 August To Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie19 August To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis20 August To Edmund Gosse 30 August To Edith Story Peruzzi 30 August To Horace Elisha Scudder 2 September To Edgar Fawcett 2 September To William James 5 September To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin5 September To William Morton Fullerton 6 September To William Morton Fullerton 10 September To William Morton Fullerton 20 September To Edmund Gosse 23 or 30 September To Isabella Stewart Gardner 24 September To Rhoda Broughton 24 September To Edmund Gosse 27 September To Edmund Gosse 29 September To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin 30 September To Isabella Stewart Gardner 2 October To Rhoda Broughton 2 October To Edmund Gosse 5 October To Horace Elisha Scudder 7 October To Frederic William Henry Myers 8 October To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley 9 October To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell 9 October To William James 9 October To Theodora Sedgwick 11 October To Samuel Dana Horton 12 October To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell12 October 1890-1891 To Harriet Lathrop Dunham14 October To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell14 October To Henrietta Reubell 17 October To Alice Stopford Green 17 October To Edmund Gosse 16, 17 October 1890 or 17, 18 October To Edwin Lawrence Godkin 19 October To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell 19 October To Urbain Mengin 20 October To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell20 October To William Morton Fullerton25 October To Lady Emily Elizabeth Hannah Thursfield 27 October To Horace Elisha Scudder30 October To Edmund Gosse 6 November To Edward Prioleau Warren7 November To William James 9 November To Thomas Waldo Story 10 November To Horace Elisha Scudder 18 November To Frederic William Henry Myers 21 November To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell 26 November To Samuel Dana Horton 27 November To George Du Maurier 27 November To William Morton Fullerton 2 December To Urbain Mengin send ms copy 5 December To Rhoda Broughton 7 December To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell 9 December To William James 11 December To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell 18 December To Sir John Forbes Clark 18 December To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis19 December To William Wilberforce Baldwin 19 December To Francis Boott 19 December To Edward Lee Childe 19 December To Harry Quilter 21 December To Maria Theresa Mundella 27 December To William Archer 29 December To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell 30 December To James Russell Lowell 30 December To Grace Norton 31 December To William Archer 18912 January To William Morton Fullerton 3 January To Edmund Gosse 3, 8 January To William James 3 January To Urbain Mengin send ms copy Biographical Register General Editors’ Note Works Cited Index