Henry James collection

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Henry James collection. -- [1878?]-1976. -- 4 cm of textual records.

First accrual:
To Edmund Gosse, 3 letters and 1 note:

ALs, Thursday, [January 3, 1895], 4 pages. Removed from Guy Domville (London: I. Miles, 1894). PS 2120.G8
ALs, n.d, Monday 4.10, 4 pages. Tipped in The Tragic Muse, vol. 2 (London: Macmillan, 1890). PS 2116.T7 1890b v. 2 cop. 2.
ALs, August 11, 1904, 2 pages. Tipped in The Tragic Muse, vol. 3 (London: Macmillan, 1890). PS 2116.T7 1890b v. 3 cop. 2.
ANs, n.d., 1 page with a quotation. Tipped in The Tragic Muse, vol. 1 (London: Macmillan, 1890). PS 2116.T7 1890b v. 1 cop. 2.
To Messrs. Clay, [?] & Taylor, 1 letter: ALs, August 23, [1878], 4 pages. Removed from The Europeans, vol. 1 (London: Macmillan, 1878). PS 2116 .E8 1878 v. 1.
[70th Birthday Letter] etc. 5 (of 6) published letters relating to James' 70th birthday (1913), with a note about them in Simon Nowell-Smith's hand. (See Edel & Laurence C1).

Printed materials:

Prospectus for Macmillan's 1908 edition of The Novels and Tales of Henry James.

Theatre programmes:

  1. for The American (1891). (3)
  2. for The High Bid (1909)
  3. for The Reprobate (1919)
  4. for The High Bid (1967)
  5. for The Aspern Papers ([n.d.])

Order of Service for James's funeral (1916)
Programme for unveiling of a memorial to James in Westminster Abbey (1976)
Ts (photocopy) of Leon Edel's "Homage to Henry James", read at Westminster, inscribed to Simon Nowell-Smith

Offprints relating to James:

  1. "The Ghost at Brede Place," by John D. Gordon (from The Bulletin of the New York Public Library )
  2. "An Unpublished Review by Henry James," by James Kraft (from Studies in Bibliography)
  3. "Texts of The Portrait of a Lady 1881-1882: The Bibliographical Evidence," by Simon Nowell-Smith (from The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America)
    June, 1968 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, containing Leon Edel's "The Deathbed Notes of Henry James," pp. l03-5

Second accrual:
Alec Macdonald. A radio adaptation of Henry James' The Aspern Papers. Ts (car.), 2 pp. of synopsis + 30 pp. of text. 1949.

Third accrual:
Douglas D. McKee, and Richard H. Hughes. A dramatization of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. Ts (car.), 106 pp. n.d.

Fourth accrual:
Library of Congress copyright registration document relating to In The Cage, 1898, 1 leaf; "a true copy of the original record of copyright", issued 6 February 1906.

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