A Man with My Trouble
Colm Tóibín: Henry James leaves home, 3 January 2008
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-72: Volume I
edited by Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias.
Nebraska, 391 pp., £57, January 2007,978 0 8032 2584 8 Show More
edited by Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias.
Nebraska, 391 pp., £57, January 2007,
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855-72: Volume II
edited by Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias.
Nebraska, 524 pp., £60, January 2007,978 0 8032 2607 4 Show More
edited by Pierre Walker and Greg Zacharias.
Nebraska, 524 pp., £60, January 2007,
“... After the death of Henry James’s father in 1882, his sister-in-law Catharine Walsh, better known as Aunt Kate, burned a large quantity of the family papers, including many letters between Henry James senior and his wife. Henry James himself in later life made a number of bonfires in which he destroyed a great quantity of the letters he had received ... ”
