Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: A Finer Art, by Susan M. Griffin Symbols and Abbreviations Chronology Errata 1880 June 6 To William Dean Howells June 6 To Mary Walsh James June 6 To Louise Chandler Moulton June 20 To Henry James Sr. July 3 To Henrietta Heathorn Huxley July 4 To Mary Walsh James July 10 To Maria Theresa Villiers Earle July 20 To William Dean Howells July 20 To Mary Walsh James July 26 To Grace Norton July 26 To Thomas Sergeant Perry July 30 To Thomas Sergeant Perry August 8 To Alice James August 8 To Francis Parkman August 18 To William Dean Howells August 19 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James August 19 To Grace Norton August 31 To William James August 31 To Thomas Sergeant Perry September 9 To Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams September 11 To William Dean Howells September 11 To Mary Walsh James September 20 To William Dean Howells September 20 To Frederick Macmillan September 20 To Grace Norton September 25 To Elizabeth Boott October 6 To Eliza Lynn Linton October 8 To Frederick Macmillan October 9 To Alice James October 11 To William Jones Hoppin October 13 To Alice James October 31 To Mary Walsh James November 7 To Grace Norton November 11 To William Dean Howells November 13 To William James November 13 To Charles Eliot Norton November 14 To Sarah Butler Wister November 18 To Henry James Sr. November 27 To William James November 28 To Mary Walsh James December 5 To William Dean Howells December 7 To Alice James December 1318 To Archibald Philip Primrose, Lord Rosebery December 15 To Blanche Althea Elizabeth Holt Cookson December 16 To Walter Herries Pollock December 16 To Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley December 18 To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley December 21 To Robert Thomson December 27 To Henry James Sr. December 28 To Frederick Macmillan December 28 To Grace Norton 1881 January 4 To James Russell Lowell January 6 To Eveleen Tennant Myers January 9, 11 misdated 10 To Mary Walsh James January 12 To John Walter Cross January 24 To Thomas Sergeant Perry January 30 To Alice James January 30 To Henry James Sr. February 7 To Mary Walsh James February 7 To Francis Turner Palgrave February 9 To William Jones Hoppin February 9 To Henrietta Reubell February 12 To Mary Smith Mundella February 12 or 19 To Theodore Child February 16 To Thomas Sergeant Perry February 24 To Henry James Sr. February 24 To Frances "Fanny" Anne Kemble February 27 To Frederick Macmillan March 8 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich March 9 To Thomas Sergeant Perry March 16 To Sir John Forbes Clark March 16 To Mary Walsh James March 21 To William James March 22 To William James and Alice Howe Gibbens James March 24 To Frances "Fanny" Anne Kemble April 15 To James Ripley Osgood April 25 To Daniel Sargent Curtis April 27 To Katherine Louisa Cullen Boughton May or June To Katharine de Kay Bronson May or June To Katharine de Kay Bronson May or June To Katharine de Kay Bronson May or June To Phoebe Garnaut Smalley May 9 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich May 11 To Henry James Sr. May 31 To Henry Burr Barnes June 5 To Henry James Sr. June 6 To Henry James Sr. June 12 To Grace Norton June 24 To Katharine de Kay Bronson July 13 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company July 14 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich July 18 To Mary Walsh James July 18 To Francis Parkman July 19 To Katharine de Kay Bronson July 20 To Grace Norton July 31 To Henry James Sr. August 3 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company August 6 To Alice Howe Gibbens James August 8 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich August 8 To James Bryce August 9 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company August 16 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company August 18 To Grace Norton August 18 To Henrietta Reubell August 25 To Mary Walsh James August 28 To Frances Power Cobbe August 31 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich August 31 To Frederick Macmillan September 9 To Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James September 10 To Helen Leah Reed September 16 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company September 17 To Katharine Peabody Loring September 26 To James Russell Lowell September 28 To Alice James September 28 To Henrietta Reubell October 1 To Alice James October 4 To Katharine de Kay Bronson October 4 To William Dean Howells October 9 To Thomas Bailey Aldrich October 14 To Frederick Macmillan October 18 To Houghton, Mifflin and Company October 20 To Frederick Macmillan Biographical Register General Editors' Note Works Cited Index

About the Author

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author and literary critic. He wrote some two dozen novels and when he died he 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 Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship.
Greg W. Zacharias is a professor of English and the founder and director of the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University. He is the editor of A Companion to Henry James and the coeditor of Tracing Henry James.
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.
Susan M. Griffin is a professor of English at the University of Louisville and the editor of the Henry James Review. She is the editor of The Europeans, in the new Cambridge Edition.
 

Reviews

“This latest volume of the Complete Letters represents, no less than its forebears, an inestimable contribution to readers hitherto obliged to hunt down James’s Letters in various selections or scattered archives, and deserves to be greeted with the same jubilant chorus of praise and gratitude.”—Alicia Rix, Times Literary Supplement
 

“This edition is not just notable for its astonishing ambition, however; even at this early stage, it must also be reckoned a signal achievement. By every measure, the volumes we have so far are simply outstanding in every major respect. . . . The result is an embarrassment of critical and biographical riches.”—Bruce Bawer, New Criterion