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.

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.

Acknowledgments    
Symbols and Abbreviations    
Chronology     
Errata    

1879
September 2    To Delano Alexander Goddard    
September 14    To Mary Walsh James    
September 14    To Alexander Macmillan    
September 14    To Thomas Sergeant Perry    
[September 15-22]    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    
September 18    To Josiah Holland    
September 27    To Chatto & Windus    
September 28    To Alexander Macmillan    
[early October]     To Frances Rollins Morse    
October 5    To Chatto & Windus    
October 11    To Henry James Sr.    
October 13    To Chatto & Windus    
October 17    To Grace Norton    
October 19    To Alexander Macmillan    
October 21    To Alexander Macmillan    
October 31    To William Dean Howells    
October 31    To Henry James Sr.     
November 2    To Thomas Sergeant Perry    
November 6    To Henrietta Heathorn Huxley    
November 10    To William James    
November 18    To Mary Walsh James    
[November 19]    To Julia C. Coster Reubell    
November 20    To Elizabeth Boott    
November 26    To Richard Watson Gilder    
December 7    To Elizabeth Boott    
December 15    To Theodore Child    
December 15    To Richard von Hoffmann    
December 16    To Henry James Sr.    
December 16    To William James    
December 19    To Sarah Butler Wister    
December 20 or 27, 1879, or January 3, 10, 17, 24, or 31, 1880    To Helena de Kay Gilder    
December 21    To John S. Barron    
December 21    To Grace Norton    
December 22    To Frances Rollins Morse    
December 31    To Elizabeth Boott    

1880
January 3    To William Dean Howells    
January 5    To Alice James    
January 5    To James Ripley Osgood    
January 8    To George Abbot James    
January 11    To Henry James Sr.     
January 11    To Robertson James    
January 13    To Louisa Lawrence    
January 17    To Henry James Sr.    
January 17    To Grace Norton    
January 17    To Thomas Sergeant Perry    
January 19    To John S. Barron    
January 22    To William Jones Hoppin    
January 22    To Henrietta Heathorn Huxley    
January 29    To Isabella Stewart Gardner    
January 31    To Richard von Hoffmann    
January 31    To William Dean Howells        
February 2    To Mary Walsh James    
February 3    To Helena de Kay Gilder    
February 4    To Theodore E. Child    
February 6    To Theodore E. Child        
February 7    To Anthony John Mundella and Mary Smith Mundella    
February 9    To Joseph Hatton     
February 11    To Henrietta Heathorn Huxley    
February 15    To Henry James Sr.     
February 16    To Gertrude Barbara Rich Collier Tennant    
February 17    To Theodore E. Child    
February 22    To Elizabeth Boott    
February 22    To Thomas Sergeant Perry     
February 22    To John Russell Young    
February 26    To Chatto & Windus    
March 3    To William Jones Hoppin    
March 9    To Jane Octavia Brookfield    
March 9    To Mary Walsh James    
[late March-early May] To Linda White Mazini Villari    
March 30    To Henry James Sr.     
March 31    To Charles Eliot Norton    
April 9    To Grace Norton    
April 11    To Fanny Hertz    
April 16    To Sarah Butler Wister    
April 18    To George Grove    
April 18    To William Dean Howells    
April 18    To Thomas Sergeant Perry    
April 22    To Scribner’s Monthly    
April 25    To Alice James    
May 3    To Catharine Walsh    
May 9    To William James    
May 14    To John Walter Cross    
May 14    To Henry James Sr.    

Supplement    
Introduction        
July 26 [1868]    To Ticknor & Fields    
July 29 [1876]    To Richard Watson Gilder    
May 22 [1878]    To William Jones Hoppin    
July 19 [1879]    To Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis    

Biographical Register    
Genealogies    
General Editors’ Note    
Works Cited    
Index