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.
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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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