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Containing letters written between October 3, 1878, and August 30, 1879, this volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James reveals Henry James establishing control of his writing career and finding confidence in himself not only as a professional author on both sides of the Atlantic but also as an important social figure in London.
In this volume of 114 letters, of which 58 are published for the first time, we see James learning to negotiate, pitting one publisher against another, and working to secure simultaneous publication in the United States and England. He establishes a working relationship with Frederick Macmillan and with the Macmillan publishing house, cultivates reviewers, basks in the success-and notoriety-of his novella Daisy Miller, and visits Alfred Tennyson and George Eliot, among others. James also produces essays on political subjects and continues to publish reviews and travel essays. Perhaps most important, James negotiates terms for and begins planning The Portrait of a Lady.
Henry James (1843-1916) wrote short stories, plays, literary criticism, and 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.
Pierre A. Walker is a professor of English at Salem State University. He is the editor of Henry James on Culture: Collected Essays on Politics and the American Social Scene (Nebraska, 1999).
Greg W. Zacharias is a professor of English at Creighton University, where he directs the Center for Henry James Studies. He is the editor of A Companion to Henry James and coeditor of Tracing Henry James. Michael Anesko is a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Real Career, the Larger Success, by Michael Anesko
Symbols and Abbreviations
Chronology
Errata
1878
October 3To William Ernest Henley
October 4To Alice James
October 4To Thomas Sergeant Perry
October 6To William Ernest Henley
October 6To Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
October 9To Elizabeth Boott
October 11To Frederick Macmillan
October 11, 18 or 25 To William Ernest Henley
October 18To Henry James Sr.
October 24To Henry James Sr.
October 27To Mary Walsh James
October 27To Frederick Macmillan
October 30To Elizabeth Boott
November 9To Richard von Hoffmann
November 14To William James
November 17To Charles Eliot Norton
November 17To Mary Walsh James
November 17To John Foster Kirk
November 17?To Frederick Macmillan
November 17To Whitelaw Reid
November 17To Elizabeth Boott
November 24To Henry James Sr.
December 8To Frederick Macmillan
December 9To Alice James
December 10To Henrietta Heathorn Huxley
December 21To Moncure Daniel Conway
December 25To Elizabeth Boott
December 29To William D. Hertz
December 29To William Dean Howells
December 31 1879 January 4, 5To Grace Norton January 8To James Payn and Louisa Edlin Payn January 13To James Bryce January 15To Julian Hawthorne January 18To Mary Walsh James January 19To Frederick Macmillan January 20To Frederick Macmillan January 21To Edward Smyth Pigott January 22To Julian Hawthorne January 22To Frederick Macmillan January 31To Mary Walsh James February 5To William Ernest Henley February 11To Elizabeth Boott February 16To George Grove February 16, 17To Alice James February 17To Frederick Macmillan February18To Frederick Macmillan February20To Katherine Fearing Strong Welman February26To Elizabeth Boott February26To Frederick Macmillan March1To Sarah Perkins Cleveland March4To Fanny Hertz March4To William James March5To Louisa Lawrence March11To Moncure Daniel Conway and Ellen Davis Dana Conway March 17To Elizabeth Boott March 17To Fanny Hertz March 17To Frederick Macmillan March 21To Jane Dalzell Finlay Hill March 23, 26To Alice James March 27To Josiah Holland April 7To William Dean Howells April 8To Mary Walsh James April 9To William Ernest Henley April 14To Elizabeth Boott April 16To Henry James Sr. May 3To Josiah Holland May 3To Henrietta Heathorn Huxley May 4To Elizabeth Boott May 4 ; misdated 14 MayTo Mary Walsh James May 5To Henry Adams May 6To Edward Smyth Pigott May 10To Frederick Macmillan May 16To Thomas Sergeant Perry May 16To Elizabeth Smith May 19, 20To Alice James May 23To George Grove May 26To Elizabeth Boott May 26To Henry James Sr. May 26To William Ernest Henley May 26To Eliza Bella Fisher Leland May 28To Scribner’s Monthly May 28To Henry Sidgwick May 29To Louisa Lawrence May 31To Mary Walsh James June 6 or 13 To Isabella Stewart Gardner June 7To Scribner’s Monthly June 8To Grace Norton June 15To William James June 17To William Dean Howells June 18To Frederick Macmillan June 21To William Ernest Henley June 28To Elizabeth Boott July 5To Isabella Stewart Gardner July 6To Mary Walsh James July 13To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley July 14To Frederick Macmillan July 15To Isabella Stewart Gardner July 15To Frederick Macmillan c. July 18To William Dean Howells July 19To Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis July 21To Elizabeth Boott July 22To Isabella Stewart Gardner July 22To William Dean Howells July 22To Frederick Macmillan July 26To Alexander Macmillan July 28To Mary Walsh James July 28To Frederic William Henry Myers August 16To Wendell Phillips Garrison August 19To William Dean Howells August 19To Alice James August 19To William James August 23; misdated AprilTo William Dean Howells August 30To William James Biographical Register Genealogies General Editors’ Note Works Cited Index
