Complete Letters of Henry James, 1887–1888

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.

• AcknowledgmentsSymbols and AbbreviationsChronologyErrata  188724 December         To Rhoda Broughton24 December         To Edmund Gosse30 December         To Thomas Bailey Aldrich  18882 January           To William Dean Howells3 January           To Edmund Gosse4 January           To Urbain Mengin4, 10 January and 5 February       To Grace Norton6 January           To Rhoda Broughton6 January           To Joseph Pennell7 January           To Edmund Gosse9 January           To Edmund Gosse10 January          To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell15 January          To Henrietta Reubell15 January          To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley16 January          To Robert Underwood Johnson19 January          To Edmund Gosse20 January          To Rhoda Broughton23 January          To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley24 January   To Louisa Lawrence and Mary Lawrence25 January          To Edmund Gosse26 January          To Frederick Macmillan28 January          To Alice Stopford Green28 January          To Lady Caroline Elizabeth Blanche Lindsay29 January          To Elizabeth Boott30 January          To Edmund GosseFebruary     To Alice James3 February          To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell8 February          To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley13 February         To Charles Stanley Reinhart15 February         To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell17 February         To Frances Balfour20 February  To William James22 February         To Henrietta Reubell23 February         To Paul Bourget23 February         To Alice James23 February         To Urbain Mengin24 February         To Daniel Sargent Curtis27 February         To Edmund Gosse28 February         To Edmund Gosse28 February         To Robert Louis Stevenson29 February         To Edmund GosseMarch or April    To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward3 March             To Thomas Bailey Aldrich3 March             To Mrs. Brooke10 March            To Lady Constance Leslie10 March            To Laura WagniÈre15 March            To Florence Bell18 March            To Rhoda Broughton18 March            To Isabella Stewart Gardner18 March 1888–89     To Florence Robb19 March            To Urbain Mengin21 March            To Frederick Macmillan21 March            To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley23 March            To Rhoda Broughton23 March            To Theodore E. Child27 March            To William Archer27 March            To Theodore E. Child1 April             To Henrietta Reubell2 April             To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis3 April             To Francis Boott3 April             To Urbain Mengin4 April             To Louisa and Mary Lawrence5 April             To Henrietta Reubell6 April             To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell6 April             To Louisa Lawrence8 April             To R. & R. Clark9 April             To Robert Underwood Johnson10 April            To George Henry Boughton10 April            To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley11 April            To Edward Lee Childe12 April            To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell21 April            To Francis Boott21 April            To Rhoda Broughton21 April            To Constance de Rothschild Flower, Lady Battersea21 April     To Henrietta Reubell28 April            To Samuel Dana Horton1 May               To Rhoda Broughton[2 May]             To Rhoda Broughton3 May               To Rhoda Broughton3 May               To Edmund Gosse6 May               To Rhoda Broughton9 May               To Frederic William Henry Myers9 May               To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands10 May              To Thomas George Bain12 May              To Rhoda Broughton15 May              To Francis Boott15 May              To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis15 May              To William Fraser Raelate Mayearly June  To Samuel Dana Horton19 May              To Mrs. Robb19 May              To Edinburgh Philosophical Institute21 May              To Houghton, Mifflin and Company22 May              To Katharine Sands Godkin22 May              To Edmund Gosse22 May              To Catharine Walsh23 May              To Violet Paget24 May              To Frederick Macmillan24 May              To Henrietta Reubell25 May              To James Ripley Osgood26 May              To Alice Stopford Green26 May              To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands29 May       To Harry Quilter31 May              To Harry Quilter1 June              To Frederic William Henry Myers4 June              To Edmund Gosse4 June              To Henrietta Reubell5 June              To Dr. Edward Eggleston9 June              To Daniel Conner Lathbury12 June             To Lilian June Bailey Henschel13 June             To Charles Stanley Reinhart20 June             To Henrietta Reubell26 June             To William James28 June             To Harry Quilter28 June      To Harry Quilter29 June             To Edmund Gosse30 June             To Henrietta Reubell2 July              To Elizabeth “Lily” Norton2 July              To Maria Theodora Sedgwick3 July              To Henrietta Reubell3, 5 July           To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward4 July              To Henrietta Reubell4 July              To Harry Quilter5 July              To Frederick Macmillan6 July              To Edmund Gosse6 July              To Alice Stopford Green6 July              To Harry Quilter7 July              To Robert Underwood Johnson7 July              To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis7 July              To Harry Quilter8 July              To Sarah Butler Wister10 July             To Henrietta Reubell12 July             To Walter Besant and Edmund Gosse14 July             To Edmund Gosse17 July             To Harry Quilter20 July             To Harry Quilter24 July             To Harry Quilter26 July             To Francis Boott26 July             To Kate Sara Sibley Gurney27 July             To Charles Stanley Reinhart27 July             To Isabella Stewart Gardner31 July             To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin31 July             To Robert Louis Stevenson1 August            To Edmund Gosse4 August            To Charles Stanley Reinhart7 August            To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley11 August           To Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White13 August           To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley15 August           To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley20 August           To Edmund Gosse22 August           To Edmund Gosse26 August           To Edmund Gosse27 August           To Edmund Gosse29 August           To Henrietta Reubell29 August           To Elizabeth “Lily” Millet10 September        To Thomas Bailey Aldrich10 September        To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell10 September        To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley11 September        To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley28 September        To Urbain Mengin29 September        To William Dean Howells29 September        To Urbain Mengin29 September        To Henrietta Reubell30 September        To Thomas Bailey Aldrich30 September        To Grace Norton30 September        To Catharine Walsh13 October          To Frederick Macmillan15 October          To Laura Alma-Tadema20 October          To Frederic William Henry Myers24 October          To Thomas Bailey Aldrich28 October          To Thomas Bailey Aldrich28 October          To Richard Watson Gilder29 October          To Francis Boott29 October          To William James29 October          To Henrietta Reubell30 October          To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis30 October          To Houghton, Mifflin and Company1 November; misdated October            To Robert Underwood Johnson6 November          To Rhoda Broughton6 November          To Daniel Sargent Curtis10 November         To Constance de Rothschild Flower, Lady Battersea11 November         To Elizabeth “Dolly” Yates Thompson13 November         To Thomas Bailey Aldrich16 November         To Elizabeth “Lily” Millet18 November         To Daniel Sargent Curtis19 November         To Daniel Sargent Curtis19 November         To James Russell Lowell19 November         To Henrietta Reubell  Biographical RegisterGeneral Editors’ NoteWorks CitedIndex

Praise for earlier volumes in The Complete Letters of Henry James series  “Michael Anesko’s superb introduction to both volumes [The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878–1880, volumes 1 and 2] places James’s letters in these crucial years in the context of James’s literary works and the broader social history in which they were produced. . . . These new volumes of The Complete Letters of Henry James deserve our admiration for their scholarly rigor and the teamwork required not only of the volume editors and Michael Anesko but also of the associate editors, editorial assistants, and advisory group of this monumental project. . . . These handsome volumes . . . [are] extraordinary resources.”-John Carlos Rowe, Resource for American Literary Study  “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  “Rippling through these letters are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the language. [James] was also one of the most entertaining-and prolific-correspondents. . . . These are richly enthralling letters.”-Peter Kemp, Sunday Times (London)