Recipient of the Approved Edition seal from the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions
This volume of
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1884–1886
includes 179 letters, 94 published for the first time, written between November 11, 1884, and December 21, 1885. The letters mark Henry James’s ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships old and new, and maximize his income. James details work on midcareer novels
The Bostonians
and
The Princess Casamassima
as well as on tales that would help to define his career
.
He reveals his close acquaintance with British politics and politicians. This volume opens with Alice James’s arrival in England and concludes with Henry James’s plans to leave his flat in Piccadilly for his new address in De Vere Gardens, Kensington.