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JAMES HENRY: (1843-1916) ´ Paris fades away into phantasmagoria gold & rose colours´
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JAMES HENRY: (1843-1916) American-born British author. An excellent, lengthy A.L.S., Henry James, twelve pages, 8vo, Grand Hotel de Turin, 16th May n.y. (´Thursday´; annotated as 1907 in pencil in another hand), to his nephew, William James (´Dearest Bill´). James states that he is writing (´a little shamefully, only tonight´) three or four hours before he leaves for Rome ´by the night xpress, which I am taking to avoid too many otherwise too hot & too dusty hours on the so perpetually tunnelled & yet so ensoleillé Genoa - Pisa road´, adding that he has spent five days ´in this very comfortable, if not particularly thrilling place´ where he has rejoiced in not having an acquaintance, but that he must move on, providing the address of the hotel in Rome where he will be staying for ten or twelve days, and remarking of his coming to Italy from France ´the state of it is all charming again, but a growing homesickness breaks through.....Paris fades away into phantasmagoria gold & rose colours & what I most feel, as yet, I fear, is that I couldn´t have borne another day of it on that "keyed-up" basis´. The novelist continues to express his relief at knowing that William is still in Paris in order that he can be of assistance, explaining why and how in some detail, ´I thank the Lord that you are there to do me a little service that my stupidity & inadvertence at the last (in packing) have rendered necessary I shall ask of you. I put away (instead of bringing with me) a set of proofs (with a blue ticket on the 1st page of the set) of a part of The Princess Casamassima, which I am revising for my "big" edition, but I helpless to say if they are in the trunk or in the suitcase I left with you - for there are a mass of proofs, duplicates of those returned, which I haven´t wished for prudence to destroy.....The "set" I mean, at any rate, a folded series with the latest (highest) number of pageing - I forget how high - ought to be near the top - or on top - of either accumulation, as they must have absentmindedly [been] chucked in at the last & it, the "set", is certainly identifiable by its being the only one with H. O. Houghton´s Riverside Press small blue label aforesaid, with date of sending out attached [to] the 1st sheet (There will be in the trunk a duplicate set (of these last sheets) without the label but it is the labelled set please I want, & as I say, it must be the only one. Kindly make sure it´s all in the little folded (once folded) sheaf - I mean by seeing that the highest paged number is in with it. Only you needn´t in the least to rummage wearily in the mass in the trunk to make this out - as I remember the little lot I want were still on my table after I had put those others well away.....There! I think I have made the thing clear - as to what I want. Now they should be sent carefully to.....Rome, & to this end, the Italian post being, one is assured, far from impeccable, should be enclosed in an envelope, a stout one.....& registered. I enclose the envelope that will take it & that should be sealed! I think the proofs will just fit in......but I send a 2nd envelope on the other chance. It will certainly take them, but try the blue one, from London, 1st & as far as the postage, rather heavy, 3 francs or so, I will refund it the instant I return to you´. James concludes by remarking that he has other letters to write now, and signs-off ´I keep a blessing of you & am......your fond old Uncle´. In a postscript, partially cross-written to the upper half of the first page, James remarks ´My journey from Paris was excellent & easy - & in a "lit-salon" to myself, by good luck´ and also urges his nephew to ´Call on the Whartons before they leave, or rather if they have left.....call on them at her brother´s, Mr. Henry Jones´s, 5 (I think, or at any rate 2 doors below where the White´s are) Place des Etats Unis and leave card for Jones´. A wonderful, and apparently unpublished, letter. VGWilliam James (1882-1961) was the son of the American philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910), the elder brother of Henry James.Edith Wharton (1862-1937) American writer who mixed with the cream of American literary society and was a close friend of Henry James. Her brother was Henry Edward Jones (1850-1922). The novel The Princess Casamassima was first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1885 and 1886 and then as a book in 1886. It is the story of an intelligent but confused young London bookbinder, Hyacinth Robinson, who becomes involved in radical politics and a terrorist assassination plot. The book is unusual in the Jamesian canon for dealing with such a violent political subject.The ´big´ edition of his works which James refers to in the present letter is known as the New York Edition, a 24-volume collection of the writer´s novels, novellas and short stories originally published in the United States and the United Kingdom between 1907 and 1909. Two more volumes containing James' unfinished novels, The Ivory Tower and The Sense of the Past were issued in 1917 in a format consistent with the original set. The entire collection was republished during the 1960s by Charles Scribner´s Sons. The official title of the set was The Novels and Tales of Henry James, though the more informal title was suggested by James himself and appears as a subtitle on the series title page in each volume.
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JAMES HENRY: (1843-1916) American-born British author. An excellent, lengthy A.L.S., Henry James, twelve pages, 8vo, Grand Hotel de Turin, 16th May n.y. (´Thursday´; annotated as 1907 in pencil in another hand), to his nephew, William James (´Dearest Bill´). James states that he is writing (´a little shamefully, only tonight´) three or four hours before he leaves for Rome ´by the night xpress, which I am taking to avoid too many otherwise too hot & too dusty hours on the so perpetually tunnelled & yet so ensoleillé Genoa - Pisa road´, adding that he has spent five days ´in this very comfortable, if not particularly thrilling place´ where he has rejoiced in not having an acquaintance, but that he must move on, providing the address of the hotel in Rome where he will be staying for ten or twelve days, and remarking of his coming to Italy from France ´the state of it is all charming again, but a growing homesickness breaks through.....Paris fades away into phantasmagoria gold & rose colours & what I most feel, as yet, I fear, is that I couldn´t have borne another day of it on that "keyed-up" basis´. The novelist continues to express his relief at knowing that William is still in Paris in order that he can be of assistance, explaining why and how in some detail, ´I thank the Lord that you are there to do me a little service that my stupidity & inadvertence at the last (in packing) have rendered necessary I shall ask of you. I put away (instead of bringing with me) a set of proofs (with a blue ticket on the 1st page of the set) of a part of The Princess Casamassima, which I am revising for my "big" edition, but I helpless to say if they are in the trunk or in the suitcase I left with you - for there are a mass of proofs, duplicates of those returned, which I haven´t wished for prudence to destroy.....The "set" I mean, at any rate, a folded series with the latest (highest) number of pageing - I forget how high - ought to be near the top - or on top - of either accumulation, as they must have absentmindedly [been] chucked in at the last & it, the "set", is certainly identifiable by its being the only one with H. O. Houghton´s Riverside Press small blue label aforesaid, with date of sending out attached [to] the 1st sheet (There will be in the trunk a duplicate set (of these last sheets) without the label but it is the labelled set please I want, & as I say, it must be the only one. Kindly make sure it´s all in the little folded (once folded) sheaf - I mean by seeing that the highest paged number is in with it. Only you needn´t in the least to rummage wearily in the mass in the trunk to make this out - as I remember the little lot I want were still on my table after I had put those others well away.....There! I think I have made the thing clear - as to what I want. Now they should be sent carefully to.....Rome, & to this end, the Italian post being, one is assured, far from impeccable, should be enclosed in an envelope, a stout one.....& registered. I enclose the envelope that will take it & that should be sealed! I think the proofs will just fit in......but I send a 2nd envelope on the other chance. It will certainly take them, but try the blue one, from London, 1st & as far as the postage, rather heavy, 3 francs or so, I will refund it the instant I return to you´. James concludes by remarking that he has other letters to write now, and signs-off ´I keep a blessing of you & am......your fond old Uncle´. In a postscript, partially cross-written to the upper half of the first page, James remarks ´My journey from Paris was excellent & easy - & in a "lit-salon" to myself, by good luck´ and also urges his nephew to ´Call on the Whartons before they leave, or rather if they have left.....call on them at her brother´s, Mr. Henry Jones´s, 5 (I think, or at any rate 2 doors below where the White´s are) Place des Etats Unis and leave card for Jones´. A wonderful, and apparently unpublished, letter. VGWilliam James (1882-1961) was the son of the American philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910), the elder brother of Henry James.Edith Wharton (1862-1937) American writer who mixed with the cream of American literary society and was a close friend of Henry James. Her brother was Henry Edward Jones (1850-1922). The novel The Princess Casamassima was first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1885 and 1886 and then as a book in 1886. It is the story of an intelligent but confused young London bookbinder, Hyacinth Robinson, who becomes involved in radical politics and a terrorist assassination plot. The book is unusual in the Jamesian canon for dealing with such a violent political subject.The ´big´ edition of his works which James refers to in the present letter is known as the New York Edition, a 24-volume collection of the writer´s novels, novellas and short stories originally published in the United States and the United Kingdom between 1907 and 1909. Two more volumes containing James' unfinished novels, The Ivory Tower and The Sense of the Past were issued in 1917 in a format consistent with the original set. The entire collection was republished during the 1960s by Charles Scribner´s Sons. The official title of the set was The Novels and Tales of Henry James, though the more informal title was suggested by James himself and appears as a subtitle on the series title page in each volume.
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