The Letters of Henry James. Vol. I

The Letters of Henry James. Vol. I
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Генри Джеймс. The Letters of Henry James. Vol. I

INTRODUCTION

NOTE

I. FIRST EUROPEAN YEARS (1869-74)

To Miss Alice James

To his Mother

To his Mother

To William James

To William James

To his Father

To Charles Eliot Norton

To his Parents

To W. D. Howells

To Miss Grace Norton

To His Mother

II. PARIS AND LONDON (1875-1881)

To his Father

To W. D. Howells

To William James

To William James

To Miss Grace Norton

To Miss Grace Norton,

To William James

To Miss Alice James

To William James

To his Mother

To Miss Grace Norton

To W. D. Howells

To Charles Eliot Norton

To his Mother

To Mrs. Fanny Kemble

III. THE MIDDLE YEARS (1882-1888)

To Miss Henrietta Reubell

To Charles Eliot Norton

To Mrs. John L. Gardner

To Miss Grace Norton

To William James

To George du Maurier

To Miss Grace Norton

To William James

To W. D. Howells

To John Addington Symonds

To Alphonse Daudet

To Robert Louis Stevenson

To William James

To Miss Grace Norton

To William James

To James Russell Lowell

To William James

To Charles Eliot Norton

To Miss Grace Norton

To Edmund Gosse

To Robert Louis Stevenson

To Robert Louis Stevenson

To W. D. Howells

To Robert Louis Stevenson

To William James

IV. LATER LONDON YEARS (1889-1897)

To Robert Louis Stevenson

To William James

To Robert Louis Stevenson

To Robert Louis Stevenson

To William James

To W. D. Howells

To Miss Alice James

To William James

To Edmund Gosse

To Mrs. Hugh Bell

To Robert Louis Stevenson

To William James

To Robert Louis Stevenson

To Charles Eliot Norton

To Edmund Gosse

To Mrs. Mahlon Sands

To Mrs. Humphry Ward

To Robert Louis Stevenson

To Robert Louis Stevenson

To the Countess of Jersey

To Charles Eliot Norton

To W. D. Howells

To Robert Louis Stevenson

To Mrs. Edmund Gosse

To Edmund Gosse

To Robert Louis Stevenson

To Robert Louis Stevenson

To William James

To Julian R. Sturgis

To William James

To Edmund Gosse

To Edmund Gosse

To Edmund Gosse

To Edmund Gosse

To Sidney Colvin

To Miss Henrietta Reubell

To William James

To George Henschel

To W. D. Howells

To William James

To Sidney Colvin

To Mrs. John L. Gardner

To Arthur Christopher Benson

To W. E. Norris

To William James

To Edmumd Gosse

To Jonathan Sturges

To W. E. Norris

To Arthur Christopher Benson

To the Viscountess Wolseley

To Miss Frances R. Morse

To Mrs. George Hunter

To Edward Warren

To Arthur Christopher Benson

To Mrs. William James

To Miss Grace Norton

V. RYE (1898-1903)

To W. D. Howells

To Arthur Christopher Benson

To William James

To Miss Muir Mackenzie

To Gaillard T. Lapsley

To Paul Bourget

To W. D. Howells

To Madame Paul Bourget

To Miss Frances R. Morse

To Dr. Louis Waldstein

To H. G. Wells

To F. W. H. Myers

To Mrs. William James

To Charles Eliot Norton

To Henry James, junior

To A. F. de Navarro

To Edward Warren

To William James

To Howard Sturgis

To Mrs. Humphry Ward

To Mrs. Humphry Ward

To Mrs. Humphry Ward

To Mrs. A. F. de Navarro

THE GOLDEN DREAM. A LITTLE TALE

To Sidney Colvin

To Edmund Gosse

To Miss Henrietta Reubell

To H. G. Wells

To Charles Eliot Norton

To Edmund Gosse

To Mrs. Everard Cotes

To A. F. de Navarro

To W. D. Howells

To W. D. Howells

To W. E. Norris

To A. F. de Navarro

To W. E. Norris

To A. F. de Navarro

To the Viscountess Wolseley

To William James

To Miss Muir Mackenzie

To W. D. Howells

To Edmund Gosse

To Miss Jessie Allen

To Mrs. W. K. Clifford

To Miss Muir Mackenzie

To Edmund Gosse

To H. G. Wells

To Percy Lubbock

To Gaillard T. Lapsley

To Mrs. Cadwalader Jones

To W. D. Howells

To H. G. Wells

To Mrs. Cadwalader Jones

To H. G. Wells

To Mrs. Frank Mathews

To W. D. Howells

To Madame Paul Bourget

To Mrs. Waldo Story

To W. D. Howells

To William James

To Miss Violet Hunt

To W. E. Norris

To Howard Sturgis

To Henry Adams

To Sir George O. Trevelyan

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The best thanks of the editor are due to Henry James's family, and particularly to his niece, Mrs. Bruce Porter, for much valuable help. Mrs. Porter undertook the collecting and copying of all the letters addressed to correspondents in America; and it is owing to her that the completion of these volumes, inevitably hindered by the war, has not been further delayed.

Henry James was born on April 15, 1843, at 2 Washington Place, New York. He was the second child of his parents, the elder by a year being his brother William. The younger members of the family were Wilkinson ('Wilky'), Robertson ('Bob'), and Alice. Their father Henry James the elder, was a man whose striking genius has never received full justice except at the hands of his illustrious sons, though from them with profound and affectionate admiration. He was the most brilliant of a remarkable group of many brothers and sisters, whose portraits, or some of them, are sketched in A Small Boy and Others. Originally of Irish descent, the James family had been settled for a couple of generations in the State of New York, and in particular at Albany. The founder of the American branch had been a prosperous man of business, whose successful career left him in a position to bequeath to his numerous descendants a fortune large enough to enable them all to live in complete independence of the commercial world. Henry James the elder has been sometimes described as 'the Reverend,' but in fact he never occupied any position but that of a detached philosopher, lecturer, man of letters. To his brothers and their extensive progeny he was a trusted and untiring moral support of a kind that many of them distinctly needed; the bereavements of the family were many, their misfortunes various, and his genial charity and good faith were an inexhaustible resource. His wife was Mary Walsh. She too belonged to a substantial New York family, of Scotch origin, several members of which are commemorated in A Small Boy. Her sister Katharine was for many years an inmate of the elder Henry's household, and to the end of her life the cherished friend of his children.

.....

There is an immensity of stupid feeling and brutal writing prevalent here about recent English conduct and attitude—innocuous to some extent, I think, from its very stupidity; but I confess there are now, to my mind, few things of more appealing interest than the various problems with which England finds herself confronted: and this owing to the fact that, on the whole, the country is so deeply—so tragically—charged with a consciousness of her responsibilities, dangers and duties. She presents in this respect a wondrous contrast to ourselves. We, retarding our healthy progress by all the gross weight of our maniac contempt of the refined idea: England striving vainly to compel her lumbersome carcase by the straining wings of conscience and desire. Of course I speak of the better spirits there and the worst here.... We have over here the high natural light of chance and space and prosperity; but at moments dark things seem to be almost more blessed by the dimmer radiance shed by impassioned thought.... But I must stay my gossiping hand....

Dear Father and Mother,

.....

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