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JAMES, Henry (1843-1916). Autograph letter signed ('your fond old uncle Henry') to William James jr, Reform Club, 25 January 1903, 10 pages, 8vo.
A LONG AFFECTIONATE LETTER TO HIS FAVOURITE NEPHEW. James apologises for 'my own long silence ... Day after day have I meant to write to you, & day after day has promiscuous pressure caused the intention disgracefully to fail'; This is partly because he has been trying to finish a book [William Wetmore Story and his Friends, published September or October 1903]. James refers to his nephew's idea of 'finding & seeing so definitely what may open to you at Marburg. Thank God, however, you don't go there till the grim German winter is past ....', and a letter from Billy's sister. After giving other family news, he returns to the contents of his nephew's letter: 'I am cynical enough to be glad that you are making some good friends & seeing something of "foreign life" & foreign comrades as well as digging deep into science. I don't want to undermine your concentration, but I am sure you'll be glad, always, of all the non-American humanity & society (impressions in general) that you may have been able to work in without damage. I have been 10 days in London & shall be very glad to leave Lamb House for the next 3 months to its austere tranquillity. The weeks after you left till I came away were fairly sepulchral. But it will be delightful in May when I shall return & wait for your return ....'
NOT PUBLISHED in Henry James Letters, ed. Leon Edel (1974-1984). James's 'delightful nephew' was eighteen when he came to stay at Lamb House in October 1902, providing a welcome interruption to falling leaves and autumn fires. His uncle had not seen him for ten years. After just a fortnight's stay, he left for Geneva, attending classes at the university in Marburg in the new year. Marburg suited him so well that his return to England got postponed from May to August. In a letter to his father, William James, written from Lamb House, 24 May 1903, Henry remarks: 'I have heard, most happilly, from Billy at Marburg; he seems to fall everywhere blessedly on his feet ... I am already notching off the days till I hope to have him here in August' (Letters, IV, p. 275). On his return Billy stayed with his uncle as expected before going up to Cambridge to study medicine.
A LONG AFFECTIONATE LETTER TO HIS FAVOURITE NEPHEW. James apologises for 'my own long silence ... Day after day have I meant to write to you, & day after day has promiscuous pressure caused the intention disgracefully to fail'; This is partly because he has been trying to finish a book [William Wetmore Story and his Friends, published September or October 1903]. James refers to his nephew's idea of 'finding & seeing so definitely what may open to you at Marburg. Thank God, however, you don't go there till the grim German winter is past ....', and a letter from Billy's sister. After giving other family news, he returns to the contents of his nephew's letter: 'I am cynical enough to be glad that you are making some good friends & seeing something of "foreign life" & foreign comrades as well as digging deep into science. I don't want to undermine your concentration, but I am sure you'll be glad, always, of all the non-American humanity & society (impressions in general) that you may have been able to work in without damage. I have been 10 days in London & shall be very glad to leave Lamb House for the next 3 months to its austere tranquillity. The weeks after you left till I came away were fairly sepulchral. But it will be delightful in May when I shall return & wait for your return ....'
NOT PUBLISHED in Henry James Letters, ed. Leon Edel (1974-1984). James's 'delightful nephew' was eighteen when he came to stay at Lamb House in October 1902, providing a welcome interruption to falling leaves and autumn fires. His uncle had not seen him for ten years. After just a fortnight's stay, he left for Geneva, attending classes at the university in Marburg in the new year. Marburg suited him so well that his return to England got postponed from May to August. In a letter to his father, William James, written from Lamb House, 24 May 1903, Henry remarks: 'I have heard, most happilly, from Billy at Marburg; he seems to fall everywhere blessedly on his feet ... I am already notching off the days till I hope to have him here in August' (Letters, IV, p. 275). On his return Billy stayed with his uncle as expected before going up to Cambridge to study medicine.
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