The 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.  

Acknowledgments
Symbols and Abbreviations
Chronology
Errata
 
1887
24 December         To Rhoda Broughton
24 December         To Edmund Gosse
30 December         To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
 
1888
2 January           To William Dean Howells
3 January           To Edmund Gosse
4 January           To Urbain Mengin
4, 10 January and 5 February       To Grace Norton
6 January           To Rhoda Broughton
6 January           To Joseph Pennell
7 January           To Edmund Gosse
9 January           To Edmund Gosse
10 January          To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell
15 January          To Henrietta Reubell
15 January          To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
16 January          To Robert Underwood Johnson
19 January          To Edmund Gosse
20 January          To Rhoda Broughton
23 January          To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
24 January   To Louisa Lawrence and Mary Lawrence
25 January          To Edmund Gosse
26 January          To Frederick Macmillan
28 January          To Alice Stopford Green
28 January          To Lady Caroline Elizabeth Blanche Lindsay
29 January          To Elizabeth Boott
30 January          To Edmund Gosse
February     To Alice James
3 February          To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell
8 February          To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
13 February         To Charles Stanley Reinhart
15 February         To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell
17 February         To Frances Balfour
20 February  To William James
22 February         To Henrietta Reubell
23 February         To Paul Bourget
23 February         To Alice James
23 February         To Urbain Mengin
24 February         To Daniel Sargent Curtis
27 February         To Edmund Gosse
28 February         To Edmund Gosse
28 February         To Robert Louis Stevenson
29 February         To Edmund Gosse
March or April    To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward
3 March             To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
3 March             To Mrs. Brooke
10 March            To Lady Constance Leslie
10 March            To Laura Wagnière
15 March            To Florence Bell
18 March            To Rhoda Broughton
18 March            To Isabella Stewart Gardner
18 March 1888–89     To Florence Robb
19 March            To Urbain Mengin
21 March            To Frederick Macmillan
21 March            To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
23 March            To Rhoda Broughton
23 March            To Theodore E. Child
27 March            To William Archer
27 March            To Theodore E. Child
1 April             To Henrietta Reubell
2 April             To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis
3 April             To Francis Boott
3 April             To Urbain Mengin
4 April             To Louisa and Mary Lawrence
5 April             To Henrietta Reubell
6 April             To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell
6 April             To Louisa Lawrence
8 April             To R. & R. Clark
9 April             To Robert Underwood Johnson
10 April            To George Henry Boughton
10 April            To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
11 April            To Edward Lee Childe
12 April            To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell
21 April            To Francis Boott
21 April            To Rhoda Broughton
21 April            To Constance de Rothschild Flower, Lady Battersea
21 April     To Henrietta Reubell
28 April            To Samuel Dana Horton
1 May               To Rhoda Broughton
[2 May]             To Rhoda Broughton
3 May               To Rhoda Broughton
3 May               To Edmund Gosse
6 May               To Rhoda Broughton
9 May               To Frederic William Henry Myers
9 May               To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands
10 May              To Thomas George Bain
12 May              To Rhoda Broughton
15 May              To Francis Boott
15 May              To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis
15 May              To William Fraser Rae
late Mayearly June  To Samuel Dana Horton
19 May              To Mrs. Robb
19 May              To Edinburgh Philosophical Institute
21 May              To Houghton, Mifflin and Company
22 May              To Katharine Sands Godkin
22 May              To Edmund Gosse
22 May              To Catharine Walsh
23 May              To Violet Paget
24 May              To Frederick Macmillan
24 May              To Henrietta Reubell
25 May              To James Ripley Osgood
26 May              To Alice Stopford Green
26 May              To Mary Morton Hartpence Sands
29 May       To Harry Quilter
31 May              To Harry Quilter
1 June              To Frederic William Henry Myers
4 June              To Edmund Gosse
4 June              To Henrietta Reubell
5 June              To Dr. Edward Eggleston
9 June              To Daniel Conner Lathbury
12 June             To Lilian June Bailey Henschel
13 June             To Charles Stanley Reinhart
20 June             To Henrietta Reubell
26 June             To William James
28 June             To Harry Quilter
28 June      To Harry Quilter
29 June             To Edmund Gosse
30 June             To Henrietta Reubell
2 July              To Elizabeth “Lily” Norton
2 July              To Maria Theodora Sedgwick
3 July              To Henrietta Reubell
3, 5 July           To Mary Augusta Arnold Ward
4 July              To Henrietta Reubell
4 July              To Harry Quilter
5 July              To Frederick Macmillan
6 July              To Edmund Gosse
6 July              To Alice Stopford Green
6 July              To Harry Quilter
7 July              To Robert Underwood Johnson
7 July              To Lady Elizabeth Eberstadt Lewis
7 July              To Harry Quilter
8 July              To Sarah Butler Wister
10 July             To Henrietta Reubell
12 July             To Walter Besant and Edmund Gosse
14 July             To Edmund Gosse
17 July             To Harry Quilter
20 July             To Harry Quilter
24 July             To Harry Quilter
26 July             To Francis Boott
26 July             To Kate Sara Sibley Gurney
27 July             To Charles Stanley Reinhart
27 July             To Isabella Stewart Gardner
31 July             To Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin
31 July             To Robert Louis Stevenson
1 August            To Edmund Gosse
4 August            To Charles Stanley Reinhart
7 August            To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
11 August           To Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White
13 August           To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
15 August           To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
20 August           To Edmund Gosse
22 August           To Edmund Gosse
26 August           To Edmund Gosse
27 August           To Edmund Gosse
29 August           To Henrietta Reubell
29 August           To Elizabeth “Lily” Millet
10 September        To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
10 September        To Lady Florence Eveleen Olliffe Bell
10 September        To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
11 September        To Lady Louisa Erskine Wolseley
28 September        To Urbain Mengin
29 September        To William Dean Howells
29 September        To Urbain Mengin
29 September        To Henrietta Reubell
30 September        To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
30 September        To Grace Norton
30 September        To Catharine Walsh
13 October          To Frederick Macmillan
15 October          To Laura Alma-Tadema
20 October          To Frederic William Henry Myers
24 October          To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
28 October          To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
28 October          To Richard Watson Gilder
29 October          To Francis Boott
29 October          To William James
29 October          To Henrietta Reubell
30 October          To Ariana Randolph Wormeley Curtis
30 October          To Houghton, Mifflin and Company
1 November; misdated October            To Robert Underwood Johnson
6 November          To Rhoda Broughton
6 November          To Daniel Sargent Curtis
10 November         To Constance de Rothschild Flower, Lady Battersea
11 November         To Elizabeth “Dolly” Yates Thompson
13 November         To Thomas Bailey Aldrich
16 November         To Elizabeth “Lily” Millet
18 November         To Daniel Sargent Curtis
19 November         To Daniel Sargent Curtis
19 November         To James Russell Lowell
19 November         To Henrietta Reubell
 
Biographical Register
General Editors’ Note
Works Cited
Index