Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883–1884

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author and literary critic. He wrote some two dozen novels, including Portrait of a Ladyand 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 director of the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University. He is the editor of A Companion to Henry James , the coeditor of Tracing Henry James, and the editor of the Henry James Review.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, 1883-1884, volume 2, contains 125 letters, of which 72 are published for the first time. Each letter is followed by previous publication information or a note that there is no previous publication.AcknowledgmentsSymbols and AbbreviationsChronologyErrata1884January 29 To James Ripley OsgoodJanuary 30 To Mary Morton Hartpence SandsFebruary 1 To Richard Watson GilderFebruary 5 To Alice JamesFebruary 5 To Emma LazarusFebruary 7 To Thomas Bailey AldrichFebruary 7 To Edmund GosseFebruary 7 To Houghton, Mifflin and CompanyFebruary 7 To Benjamin Holt TicknorFebruary 9 To Theodore E. ChildFebruary 13 To Thomas Bailey AldrichFebruary 20 To William JamesFebruary 21 To William Dean HowellsFebruary 21 To Mary Augusta Arnold WardFebruary 22 To Edwin Lawrence Godkin22 January To John Addington SymondsFebruary 23 To Grace NortonFebruary 26 To Henrietta ReubellFebruary 29 To Alice James February 29 To Theodore E. ChildMarch 3 To William JamesMarch 6 To Thomas Sergeant PerryMarch 8 To Theodore E. ChildMarch 9 To Florence Wilkinson MathewsMarch 9 To Mary Morton Hartpence SandsMarch 10 To Benjamin Holt TicknorMarch 14 To Edwin Austin Abbey and Alfred ParsonsMarch 18 To George Du MaurierMarch 19 To Thomas Bailey AldrichMarch 19 To Theodore E. ChildMarch 21 To Charles Scribner's SonsMarch 22 To William JamesMarch 26 To William JamesMarch 20 To Alice JamesMarch 29 To Sir Charles Archer CookMarch 29, 31 To Grace NortonApril 5 To Jane Dalzell Finlay HillApril 14 To Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord RoseberyApril 16 To Thomas Bailey AldrichApril 16 To Lawrence BarrettApril 16 To Charles Scribner's SonsApril 16 To Mary and Louisa LawrenceApril 16 To Benjamin Holt TicknorApril 21 To William JamesApril 21 To Louisa LawrenceApril 21 To J. Cotter MorisonMay 2 To Katharine de Kay BronsonMay 2 To Isabella Stewart GardnerMay 3 To Alice James May 4 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt LewisMay 6, 7 To Grace NortonMay 7 To James Bryce May 7 To John Milton HayMay 12 To Eveleen Tennant MyersMay 13 To Edmund GosseMay 15 To Houghton, Mifflin and CompanyMay 16 To Eveleen Tennant MyersMay 20 To Eleanor Mary SellarMay 22 To Thomas Sergeant PerryMay 23 To Alice Howe Gibbens JamesMay 23 To Benjamin Holt TicknorMay 26 To William JamesMay 28 To James Russell LowellJune 2 To Elizabeth BoottJune 3 To Charles Eliot NortonJune 5 To Edmund GosseJune 5 To John Milton HayJune 6 To James Payn June 9 To Edmund GosseJune 10 To Lady Louisa Erskine WolseleyJune 12 To George Washburn SmalleyJune 17 To Edwin Lawrence GodkinJune 17 To Benjamin Holt TicknorJune 19 To Alphonse DaudetJune 19 To George Du MaurierJune 21 To Isabella Stewart GardnerJune 24 To Edmund GosseJune 25 To Sir William Henry GregoryJuly 1 To Charles Eliot NortonJuly 3 To William Jones HoppinJuly 5 To Jessie Percy Butler Duncan PhippsJuly 5 To Benjamin Holt TicknorJuly 12 To Edwin Austin AbbeyJuly 14 To Sir Edward Bruce HamleyJuly 14 To Thomas Wemyss ReidJuly 15 To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt LewisJuly 16 or 23 To Isabella Stewart GardnerJuly 18 To Lawrence BarrettJuly 18 To Edmund GosseJuly 24 To Lady Louisa Erskine WolseleyJuly 26 To Lady Louisa Erskine WolseleyJuly 31 To Edgar FawcettJuly 31 To Richard Watson GilderJuly 31 To William Dean HowellsJuly 31 To Violet PagetJuly 31 To Olivia Brown WalshAugust 1 To Francis BoottAugust 2 To Grace NortonAugust 5 To SirAugust 15 To James Ripley OsgoodAugust 21 To Elizabeth Mary Rose-Innes SantleyAugust 21 To Lady Louisa Erskine WolseleyAugust 26 To Frederick MacmillanSeptember 3 To Lady Louisa Erskine WolseleySeptember 4 To Edmund GosseSeptember 15 To MadamSeptember 16 To George Du MaurierSeptember 16 To Henrietta ReubellSeptember 16 To Lady Louisa Erskine WolseleySeptember 18 To Edmund GosseSeptember 26 To Thomas Sergeant PerrySeptember 26 To Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord RoseberySeptember 26 to November 14 To Lady Louisa Erskine WolseleySeptember 28 To Benjamin Holt TicknorOctober 2, 5 To Katharine Sands GodkinOctober 2 To Marcus Bourne HuishOctober 2 To Louisa Putnam LoringOctober 5 To William JamesOctober 9 To James Russell LowellOctober 21 To Violet PagetOctober 31 To William JamesNovember 1 To Henrietta ReubellNovember 3 To Grace NortonNovember 6 To Lady Louisa Erskine WolseleyNovember 9 To Benjamin Holt TicknorBiographical RegisterGeneral Editors' NoteWorks CitedIndex

“Reading these edited letters is a delight. The transcriptions allow one to read fluidly rather than haltingly, preserving the rhythm and tone of the original communications together with their content. The explanatory notes do a superb job of contextualizing the letters and identifying references and allusions within them. I could not help but admire the astonishing discernment and scholarship manifested in this volume.”-Sarah Wadsworth, professor of English at Marquette University