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JAMES, Henry. Two autograph letters, one signed, to Dr. Josiah Holland, editor of Scribner's Monthly, 3 Bolton Street, Mayfair [London], and 42 rue de Cambon [Paris], 27 March and 18 September 1879. Together 7½ pages, 8vo, first letter with the lower half of last leaf defective, with signature and probably some text lacking. Provenance: James Gilvarry (his sale Christie's New York, 7 February 1986, lot 144).
ON THE PUBLICATION OF 'CONFIDENCE'
27 March: "I am very glad to learn that you desire to begin my story Confidence with the midsummer no. There will be no difficulty about this, as I will despatch you the 1st half by the middle of next month, & the rest will promptly follow. The story will, in fact be rather longer than the Europeans -- & the whole will have been squeezed into about as short a compass a novel can possibly pretend to accommodate itself to. I think I can warrant the thing interesting, & I can certainly promise you a good piece of work..."
18 September: James asks if he might "...delay two or three weeks longer sending you the last part of Confidence. The other day, when I was on the point of sending it to you, I made up my mind to change my denouement -- for the better! I indeed rewrote the whole thing. At the same moment I was suddenly obliged to come abroad & this has been an interruption... You will not be able to send me a proof, but this I must resign myself to, as the penalty for my tardiness..."
Confidence was published in Scribner's, vols. xviii and xix (August-December 1879). Both apparently unpublished, not in Letters, ed. Edel. (2)
ON THE PUBLICATION OF 'CONFIDENCE'
27 March: "I am very glad to learn that you desire to begin my story Confidence with the midsummer no. There will be no difficulty about this, as I will despatch you the 1st half by the middle of next month, & the rest will promptly follow. The story will, in fact be rather longer than the Europeans -- & the whole will have been squeezed into about as short a compass a novel can possibly pretend to accommodate itself to. I think I can warrant the thing interesting, & I can certainly promise you a good piece of work..."
18 September: James asks if he might "...delay two or three weeks longer sending you the last part of Confidence. The other day, when I was on the point of sending it to you, I made up my mind to change my denouement -- for the better! I indeed rewrote the whole thing. At the same moment I was suddenly obliged to come abroad & this has been an interruption... You will not be able to send me a proof, but this I must resign myself to, as the penalty for my tardiness..."
Confidence was published in Scribner's, vols. xviii and xix (August-December 1879). Both apparently unpublished, not in Letters, ed. Edel. (2)