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 Wagnière
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 Wagnière
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
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 Pennsylvania State University. He is a general editor of
The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James and
the author of Henry James Framed: Material Representations of the
Master (Nebraska, 2022), among others.
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.
Sarah Wadsworth is a professor of English at Marquette
University. She is the author of In the Company of Books:
Literature and Its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century America.
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