quite out of my power: otherwise I should sooner have thanked you for
the so generous spirit of that letter, and told you, with emotion, how
much it has touched me. I am really more overcome than I can say by
your having been able to indulge in such freedom of mind and grace of
speculation, during these dark days, on behalf of my poor old rather
truncated edition, in fact entirely frustrated one--which has the
grotesque likeness for me of a sort of miniature Ozymandias of Egypt
("look on my _works_, ye mighty, and despair!")--round which the lone
and level sands stretch further away than ever. It _is_ indeed
consenting to be waved aside a little into what was once blest
literature to so much as answer the question you are so handsomely
impelled to make--but my very statement about the matter can only be,
alas, a melancholy, a blighted confusion. That Edition has been, from
the point of view of profit either to the publishers or to myself,
practically a complete failure; vaguely speaking, it doesn't sell--that
is, my annual report of what it does--the whole 24 vols.--in this
country amounts to about L25 from the Macmillans; and the ditto from the
Scribners in the U.S. to very little more. I am past all praying for
anywhere; I remain at my age (which you know,) and after my long career,
utterly, insurmountably, unsaleable. And the original preparation of
that collective and selective series involved really the extremity of
labour--all my "earlier" things--of which the Bostonians would have
been, if included, one--were so intimately and interestingly revised.
The edition is from that point of view really a monument (like
Ozymandias) which has never had the least intelligent critical justice
done it--or any sort of critical attention at all paid it--and the
artistic problem involved in my scheme was a deep and exquisite one, and
moreover was, as I held, very effectively solved. Only it took such
time--_and_ such taste--in other words such aesthetic light. No more
commercially thankless job of the literary order was (Prefaces and
all--_they_ of a thanklessness!) accordingly ever achieved. The
immediate inclusion of the Bostonians was rather deprecated by the
publishers (the Scribners, who were very generally and in a high degree
appreciative: I make no complaint of them at all!)--and there were
reasons for which I also wanted to wait: we always meant that that work
should eventually come in. Revision of it loomed peculiarly formidable
and time-consuming (for intrinsic reasons,) and as other things were
more pressing and more promptly feasible I allowed it to stand
over--with the best intentions, and also in company with a small number
more of provisional omissions. But by this time it _had_ stood over,
disappointment had set in; the undertaking had begun to announce itself
as a virtual failure, and we stopped short where we were--that is when a
couple of dozen volumes were out. From that moment, some seven or eight
years ago, nothing whatever has been added to the series--and there is
little enough appearance now that there will ever. Your good impression
of the Bostonians greatly moves me--the thing was no success whatever on
publication in the Century (where it came out,) and the late R. W.
Gilder, of that periodical, wrote me at the time that they had never
published anything that appeared so little to interest their readers. I
felt about it myself then that it was probably rather a remarkable feat
of objectivity--but I never was very thoroughly happy about it, and seem
to recall that I found the subject and the material, after I had got
launched in it, under some illusion, less interesting and repaying than
I had assumed it to be. All the same I _should_ have liked to review it
for the Edition--it would have come out a much truer and more curious
thing (it was meant to be curious from the first;) but there can be no
question of that, or of the proportionate Preface to have been written
with it, at present--or probably ever within my span of life. Apropos
of which matters I at this moment hear from Heinemann that four or five
of my books that he has have quite (entirely) ceased to sell and that he
must break up the plates. Of course he must; I have nothing to say
against it; and the things in question are mostly all in the Edition.
But such is "success"! I should have liked to write that Preface to the
Bostonians--which will never be written now. But think of noting now
that _that_ is a thing that has perished!
I am doing my best to feel better, and hope to go out this afternoon the
first for several! I am exceedingly with you all over Philip's transfer
to France. We are with each other now as not yet before over everything
and I am yours and your wife's more than ever,
/*
H. J.
*/
_To Mrs. Wilfred Sheridan._
/#
Lieut. Wilfred Sheridan, Rifle Brigade, fell in action at Loos,
September 25, 1915.
#/
/*
21 Carlyle Mansions,
Cheyne Walk, S.W.
October 4th, 1915.
*/
/*
Dearest, dearest Clare,
*/
I have heard twice from your kindest of Fathers, and yet this goes to
you (for poor baffling personal reasons) with a dreadful belatedness.
The thought of coming into your presence, and into Mrs. Sheridan's, with
such wretched empty and helpless hands is in itself paralysing; and yet,
even as I say that, the sense of how my whole soul is full, even to its
being racked and torn, of Wilfred's belovedest image and the splendour
and devotion in which he is all radiantly wrapped and enshrined, [makes
me] ask myself if I don't really bring you something, of a sort, in thus
giving you the assurance of how absolutely I adored him! Yet who can
give you anything that approaches your incomparable sense that he was
yours, and you his, to the last possessed and possessing radiance of
him? I can't pretend to utter to you words of "consolation"--vainest of
dreams: for what is your suffering but the measure of his virtue, his
charm and his beauty?--everything we so loved him for. But I see you
marked with his glory too, and so intimately associated with his noble
legend, with the light of it about you, and about his children, always,
and the precious privilege of making him live again whenever one
approaches you; convinced as I am that you will rise, in spite of the
unspeakable laceration, to the greatness of all this and feel it carry
you in a state of sublime privilege. I had sight and some sound of him
during an hour of that last leave, just before he went off again; and
what he made me then feel, and what his face seemed to say, amid that
cluster of relatives in which I was the sole outsider (of which too I
was extraordinarily proud,) is beyond all expression. I don't know why I
presume to say such things--I mean poor things only of _mine_, to you,
all stricken and shaken as you are--and then again I know how any touch
of his noble humanity must be unspeakably dear to you, and that you'll
go on getting the fragrance of them wherever he passed. I think with
unutterable tenderness of those days of late last autumn when you were
in the little house off the Edgware Road, and the humour and gaiety and
vivid sympathy of his talk (about his then beginnings and conditions)
made me hang spellbound on his lips. But what memories are these not to
you, and how can one speak to you at all without stirring up the deeps?
Well we are all in them _with_ you, and with his mother--and may I
speak of his father?--and with his children, and we cling to you and
cherish you as never before. I live with you in thought every step of
the long way, and am yours, dearest Clare, all devotedly and sharingly,
/*
HENRY JAMES.
*/
_To Hugh Walpole._
/*
21 Carlyle Mansions,
Cheyne Walk, S.W.
Nov. 13th, 1915.
*/
...I take to my heart these blest Cornish words from you and thank you
for them as articulately as my poor old impaired state permits. It will
be an immense thing to see you when your own conditions permit of it,
and in that fond vision I hang on. I have been having a regular hell of
a summer and autumn (that is more particularly from the end of July:)
through the effect of a bad--an aggravated--heart-crisis, during the
first weeks of which I lost valuable time by attributing (under wrong
advice) my condition to mistaken causes; but I am in the best hands now
and apparently responding very well to very helpful treatment. But the
past year has made me feel twenty years older, and, frankly, as if my
knell had rung. Still, I cultivate, I at least attempt, a brazen front.
I shall not let that mask drop till I have heard _your_ thrilling story.
Do intensely believe that I respond clutchingly to your every grasp of
me, every touch, and would so gratefully be a re-connecting link with
you here--where I don't wonder that you're bewildered. (It will be
indeed, as far as I am concerned, the bewildered leading the
bewildered.) I have "seen" very few people--I see as few as possible, I
can't stand them, and all their promiscuous prattle, mostly; so that
those who have reported of me to you must have been peculiarly
vociferous. I deplore with all my heart your plague of boils and of
insomnia; I haven't known the former, but the latter, alas, is my own
actual portion. I think I shall know your rattle of the telephone as
soon as ever I shall hear it. Heaven speed it, dearest Hugh, and keep me
all fondestly yours,
/*
HENRY JAMES.
*/
INDEX
/*
Abbey, Edwin, i. 88, 232; ii. 90, 186.
Adams, Henry, letters to, i. 431;
ii. 360.
Aide, Hamilton, ii. 59.
Ainger, Canon, i. 177.
Alexander, Sir George, i. 146.
Allen, Miss Jessie, letters to, i. 379;
ii. 158.
_Ambassadors, The_, i. 273, 354, 375-7, 413;
ii. 10, 245, 333.
_American, The_, i. 47, 325; ii. 333. (dramatic version) i. 146, 161,
166, 172-4, 176, 181, 185;
ii. 354.
_American Scene, The_, ii. 4, 36, 45, 83.
Andersen, Hendrik, ii. 74.
Anderson, Miss Mary, _see_ Navarro, Mrs. A. F. de.
Archer, William, i. 172, 176, 228.
Arnold, Matthew, i. 125.
_Aspern Papers, The_, i. 86.
Asquith, Right Hon. H. H., ii. 460, 480, 481.
_Awkward Age, The_, i. 273, 292, 317, 319, 325, 333, 334;
ii. 241.
Bailey, John, letter to, ii. 269.
Balestier, Wolcott, i. 148, 167, 186, 189.
Balfour, Right Hon. A. J., ii. 49.
Balfour, Graham, i. 386.
Balzac, i. 327;
ii. 254, 350, 351.
Barnard, Frederick, i. 88.
Barres, Maurice, i. 221, 270.
Bartholomew, A. T., ii. 127.
Beardsley, Aubrey, ii. 343.
Bell, Mrs. Hugh (Lady Bell), letters to, i. 173;
ii. 231.
Bennett, Arnold, ii. 261, 262.
Benson, Archbishop, i. 278.
Benson, Arthur C., i. 217;
ii. 62, 112, 123.
Letters to, i. 240, 251, 262, 278;
ii. 125, 364.
Bernstein, Henry, ii. 319-21, 357.
Berry, Walter V. R., ii. 297, 425.
Letter to, ii. 217.
_Better Sort, The_, i. 273.
Bigelow, Mrs., letters to, ii. 159, 278.
Biltmore, ii. 25.
Bjoernson, i. 220, 221.
Blanche, Jacques, ii. 108-10.
Blandy, Mary, ii. 356, 371, 372.
Blocqueville, Madame de, i. 46.
Blowitz, i. 154.
Bolt, Edward, ii. 75.
Bonn, i. 5.
Bonnard, Abel, ii. 357.
Boott, Frank, i. 57, 98.
Bosanquet, Miss T, letter to, ii. 204.
_Bostonians, The_, i. 86, 115, 121, 135, 325;
ii. 98, 498.
Boulogne-sur-mer, i. 5;
ii. 374.
Bourget, Paul, i. 149, 154, 188, 195, 201, 205, 206, 230, 247, 274, 316;
ii. 56.
Letter to, i. 286.
Bourget, Madame Paul, letters to, i. 292, 410.
Boutroux, Emile, ii. 428.
Braxfield, Lord Justice Clerk, ii. 372.
Bridges, Robert, ii. 153, 337.
Letter to, ii. 341.
Bright, John, i. 76.
Brighton, ii. 61.
Broadway, i. 88.
Brooke, Rupert, ii. 127, 380, 462-5, 468, 472-4.
Brooks, Cunliffe, i. 63.
Broughton, Miss Rhoda, ii. 13, 59, 75, 331.
Letters to, ii. 178, 238, 317, 389, 408.
Browne, Denis, ii. 474.
Browning, Robert, i. 7;
ii. 234.
Browning, Robert Barrett, i. 168, 169.
Bryce, Viscount, ii. 381.
Bryn Mawr, ii. 3, 27, 28, 53.
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, i. 125, 196, 307-9, 339, 340.
Burton, Sir Richard, ii. 256.
Cadwalader, John, ii. 82, 193.
California, ii. 32-4.
Cambon, Paul, i. 143.
Cannan, Gilbert, ii. 324.
Carlyle, Thomas, i. 122-4.
Caro, E. M., i. 46.
Chamberlain, Joseph, ii. 12.
Chapman, R. W., letter to, ii. 241.
Charmes, Xavier, i. 143.
Charteris, Hon. Evan, letters to, ii. 436, 453.
Chicago, ii. 31.
Childe, Edward Lee, i. 50.
Letters to, ii. 10, 120.
Chocorua (New Hampshire), ii. 2, 18, 134, 165.
Clark, Sir John, i. 62.
Clifford, Mrs. W. K., letters to, i. 381;
ii. 18, 29, 129, 171, 234, 392, 397.
Colvin, Lady, _see_ Sitwell, Mrs.
Colvin, Sir Sidney, i. 111, 133, 156, 160, 177, 188, 189, 191, 204, 223;
ii. 278.
Letters to, i. 224, 236, 330.
Compton, Edward, i. 146, 166, 167, 172-4;
ii. 354.
_Confidence_, i. 43, 69.
Conrad, Joseph, i. 390, 405.
Coppee, F., i. 154.
Cory, William, i. 262.
Cotes, Mrs Everard, letter to, i. 346.
_Covering End_, i. 298, 299;
ii. 6.
_Crapy Cornelia_, ii. 139.
Crawford, Marion, i. 275, 319.
Creighton, Bishop, ii. 275.
Crewe, Marquis of, _see_ Houghton, Lord.
Curtis, George, i. 197.
Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel, i. 87, 127, 166, 168, 169, 378;
ii. 76.
_Daisy Miller_, i. 43, 65, 66, 68, 92.
Darwin, W. E., ii. 412.
Darwin, Mrs. W. E., i. 257.
Daudet, Alphonse, i. 41, 102-4, 154, 240, 241, 247, 269;
ii. 254.
Letter to, i. 108.
_Death of the Lion, The_, i. 217.
De Vere, Aubrey, i. 16.
Dew-Smith, Mrs., letter to, ii. 55.
Dickens, Charles, ii. 40, 138.
Dickens, Miss, i. 16.
Dino, Duchesse de, ii. 121.
Dolben, Digby Mackworth, ii. 337-9, 341-3.
Dore, Gustave, i. 45.
Dostoieffsky, ii. 237.
Dresden, i. 148, 186.
Dublin Castle, i. 238, 239.
Dublin, Royal Hospital, i. 238.
Du Breuil, Jean, ii. 457, 465.
Du Maurier, George, i. 143, 177.
Letters to, i. 98, 212.
Dumas, Alexandre, ii. 410.
Edwards, Miss M. Betham, letter to, ii. 213.
Eliot, George, i. 42, 51, 61, 66; ii. 40, 284.
Elliott, Miss Gertrude (Lady Forbes-Robertson), ii. 95.
Emerson, R. W., i. 422; ii. 290.
Emmet, Miss Ellen (Mrs. Blanchard Rand), letters to, ii. 107, 189.
_English Hours_, ii. 101.
Esher, Viscount, ii. 193.
Etretat, i. 42;
ii. 257.
_Europeans, The_, i. 43, 65, 66.
Fawcett, E., i. 285.
Fezandie, Institution (Paris), i. 4.
Filippi, Filippo, ii. 75, 80.
_Finer Grain, The_, ii. 139, 291.
FitzGerald, Edward, i. 260.
Flaubert, Gustave, i. 41, 42, 46, 49;
ii. 256, 258.
Florence, i. 21, 24, 35-7, 43, 57, 127.
Florida, ii. 26, 30.
Forbes-Robertson, Sir. J., ii. 6, 96.
Fox, Lazarus, i. 15.
France, Anatole, i. 201;
ii. 277.
Fullerton, W. Morton, ii. 156.
Galton, Sir Douglas, i. 177.
Gardner, Mrs. John L, i. 342;
ii. 17.
Letters to, i. 92, 238; ii. 195.
Gautier, Theophile, i. 46;
ii. 410.
Gay, Walter, ii. 414.
Geneva, i. 139, 140.
Gilder, R. W., ii. 498.
Gilder, Mrs. R. W., letter to, ii. 401.
Gissing, George, i. 390.
Gladstone, W. E., i. 53, 96;
ii. 11.
Glehn, Wilfred von, ii. 233.
Godkin, E. L., i. 285, 377.
_Golden Bowl, The_, i. 273;
ii. 10, 15, 28, 30, 41, 43, 209, 333.
_Golden Dream, The_, i. 329.
Goncourt Academy, the, ii. 62.
Goncourt, Edmond de, i. 41, 102, 104, 154, 247;
ii. 260.
Gordon, Lady Hamilton, i. 62.
Gosse, Edmund, i. 138, 148, 251, 362;
ii. 85.
Reminiscences by, i. 88.
Letters to, i. 129, 172, 185, 202, 217, 220, 221, 223, 246,
332, 344, 378, 385;
ii. 19, 24, 246, 248, 250, 252, 255, 257, 274, 348, 409,
430, 480, 492, 496.
Gosse, Mrs. Edmund, letter to, i. 201.
Grainger, Percy, ii 233.
Greville, Mrs., i. 66, 71, 80.
Groombridge Place, i. 364.
Grove, Mrs. Archibald, letter to, ii. 324.
_Guy Domville_, i. 147, 149, 210, 226-9, 232-6.
Haggard, Rider, i. 156.
Haldane, Viscount, ii. 428.
Hardy, Thomas, i. 190, 200;
ii. 108.
Harland, Henry, i. 203, 217.
Harrison, Frederic, ii. 204, 398.
Letter to, ii. 483.
Harrison, Mrs. Frederic, letter to, ii. 202.
Harvard, ii. 21, 153, 188.
Harvey, Sir Paul, ii. 93, 122.
Letter to, ii. 47.
_Hawthorne_ (English Men of Letters Series), i. 71, 72.
Hay, John, i. 264, 407;
ii. 26.
Heidelberg, i. 32.
Henley, W. E, i. 386, 387.
Hennessy, Mrs. Richard, ii. 135.
Henschel, Sir George, letter to, i. 229
Hewlett, Maurice, i. 345.
_High Bid, The_, ii. 6, 90, 94, 96.
Holland, Sidney, i. 63.
Holmes, Wendell, i. 244, 295.
Hosmer, B. G., i. 18.
Houghton, Lord, i. 52, 53.
Houghton, Lord (Marquis of Crewe), i. 238.
Howells, W. D., i. 10, 14, 30, 60, 267.
Letters to, i. 33, 47, 71, 103, 134, 163, 197, 230, 277,
291, 349, 354, 375, 397, 407, 413;
ii. 8, 98, 118, 221.
Hueffer, Mrs. F. M., _see_ Hunt, Miss Violet.
Hugo, Victor, i. 46.
Humieres, Vicomte Robert d', ii. 78.
Hunt, Miss Violet (Mrs. F. M. Hueffer), letter to, i. 424.
Hunt, William, i. 5, 7.
Hunter, Mrs. Charles, ii. 152, 195, 196, 208, 233, 320.
Letter to, ii. 170.
Hunter, Mrs. George, letter to, i. 258.
Huntington, Mrs., i. 23.
Huntly, Marquis of, i. 63.
Huxley, T. H., i. 52.
Ibsen, i. 212.
_International Episode, An_, i. 65, 67.
Ireland, i. 121, 153, 216.
Italy, i. 37, 43, 106, 126;
ii. 80, 439, 440.
_Ivory Tower, The_, ii. 98, 154, 380.
James, George Abbot, ii. 190, 196.
Letters to, ii. 110, 113.
James, Henry: character and methods of work, i. xiii-xxxi:
birth and early years, i. 1-11:
visits to Europe, i. 11-14:
settles in Europe, i. 41:
life in London, i. 42-44, 84, 85, 87:
settles at Lamb House, Rye, i. 150, 151, 272-4:
revisits America, i. 276;
ii. 1-4:
last visit to America, ii. 152, 153:
settles in Chelsea, ii. 154:
seventieth birthday, ii. 154, 307-12:
naturalised as a British subject, ii. 381, 477-81, 491, 492:
last illness and death, ii. 381:
dramatic work, i. 144, 161-3, 166-8, 179-83, 206, 234, 235;
ii 6:
collected edition of his fiction, ii. 4, 70, 96, 98-100, 497-9:
impressions of England and the English, i. 21-3, 26, 27, 31, 42, 55, 58,
64, 68, 69, 74, 84, 85, 87, 96, 114, 124;
ii. 377, 416, 417, 435, 443.
James, Henry, senior, i. 1-3, 9, 27, 83, 92, 97, 98, 111, 112.
Letters to, i. 28, 32, 45.
James, Mrs. Henry, senior (Miss Mary Walsh), i. 2, 82, 92;
ii. 47.
Letters to, i. 19, 21, 32, 38, 67, 76.
James, Henry, junior, letters to, i. 309;
ii. 16, 96, 239, 288, 345, 385, 419, 477, 490.
James, Miss Alice, i. 1, 13, 84, 86, 112, 120, 140, 143, 148, 187,
189, 214-17.
Letters to, i. 15, 62, 166.
James, Miss Margaret (Mrs. Bruce Porter), letters to, ii. 36, 53.
James, Robertson, i. 1, 97;
ii. 152, 164.
James, Wilkinson, i. 1, 6, 7, 9.
James, William, i. 1-3, 5, 7, 9, 14, 42, 44, 84, 149, 275, 276, 295,
305, 338, 339, 343, 344;
ii. 151, 152, 166-8, 300, 329, 330, 345.
Letters to, i. 24, 26, 50, 59, 65, 97, 102, 111, 115, 119, 139, 154,
170, 179, 210, 214, 227, 232, 244, 280, 315, 371, 415;
ii. 34, 42, 50, 52, 82, 134, 140.
James, Mrs. William, ii. 151, 152.
Letters to, i. 263, 301;
ii. 32, 194, 205, 299, 305, 329, 361, 449.
James, William, junior, letters to, ii. 71, 314, 394.
James, Mrs. William, junior, _see_ Runnells, Miss Alice.
Jersey, Countess of, letter to, i. 192.
Jones, Mrs. Cadwalader, letters to, i. 395, 401.
Jusserand, J. J., i. 143;
ii. 26.
Kemble, Mrs. Fanny, i. 67, 70, 83, 95, 128;
ii. 148.
Letter to, i. 78.
Kempe, C. E., i. 254, 255.
Keynes, Geoffrey, ii. 127.
Kipling, Rudyard, i. 156, 178, 188, 189, 249, 271, 339, 341.
_Lady Barbarina_, i. 103.
La Farge, John, i. 402.
Lamb House, Rye, description of, i. 265-7;
fire at, i. 312-14.
Lang, Andrew, i. 138;
ii. 275-7.
Langtry, Mrs., i. 63.
Lapsley, Gaillard T., ii. 90, 110.
Letters to, i. 285, 391;
ii. 62, 92, 267.
Lawrence, D. H., ii. 324.
Leighton, Lord, i. 243.
Lemaitre, Jules, ii. 413, 467.
_Lesson of Balzac, The_, ii. 3, 27, 30.
_Lesson of the Master, The_, i. 86, 192.
Leverett, Rev. W. C., i. 7.
Lewes, G. H., i. 61.
Lincoln, Abraham, ii. 347, 348.
_Little Tour in France, A_, i. 83.
Lodge, Mrs. Henry Cabot, letter to, ii. 447.
London, i. 42, 43, 54, 55, 59, 70, 74;
ii. 36, 37.
Loti, Pierre, i. 202, 203, 325, 327.
Lowell, James Russell, i. 13, 56, 75, 115, 184, 197.
Letter to, i. 118.
Lubbock, Percy, letters to, i. 390;
ii. 310.
Lushington, Miss, i. 54.
Lyall, Sir Alfred, i. 177.
Lydd, i. 362.
Mackenzie, Compton, ii. 353.
Letters to, ii. 354, 437, 475.
Mackenzie, Miss Muir, letters to, i. 283, 373, 382.
McKinley, President, i. 249, 379.
Malvern, Great, i. 26, 28.
Marble, Manton, ii. 44, 83.
Marsh, Edward, letters to, ii. 462, 464, 468, 472, 474.
Martin, Sir Theodore, i. 177.
Mathew, Lady, ii. 390.
Mathews, Mrs. Frank, letter to, i. 406.
Maupassant, Guy de, i. 41;
ii. 256-60.
Meilhac, i. 154.
Mentmore, i. 76.
Meredith, George, i. 219, 241;
ii. 249-57, 438.
_Middle Years, The_, i. 1, 65;
ii. 36, 380.
Milan, i. 78, 122.
Millais, Sir J. E., i. 76.
Millet, Frank, i. 88, 314.
Montegut, Emile de, i. 46.
Morley, John, Viscount, i. 52, 53, 372;
ii. 11, 251.
Morris, William, i. 16-19, 340, 341.
Morris, Mrs. William, i. 17, 18, 80.
Morse, Miss Frances R., letters to, i. 255, 294.
Munich, i. 32;
ii. 142, 143, 244.
Musset, Alfred de, i. 8;
ii. 156, 157.
Myers, F. W. H., i. 371.
Letter to, i. 300.
Naples, i. 43.
Nauheim, ii. 152, 163.
Navarro, A. F. de, letters to, i. 311, 348, 364, 368;
ii. 286.
Navarro, Mrs. A. F. de (Miss Mary Anderson), letter to, i. 328.
New England, ii. 19, 20, 135.
_New Novel, The_, ii. 350.
New York, i. 99; ii. 23, 25.
Newport, i. 5-9.
Norris, W. E, i. 218;
ii. 239, 319.
Letters to, i. 242, 250, 361, 366, 425;
ii. 12, 22, 45, 58, 84, 87, 114, 160, 173, 211.
Norton, Charles Eliot, i. 10-12, 15, 353;
ii. 69, 118, 119, 295.
Letters to, i. 30, 74, 91, 122, 183, 193, 306, 337.
Norton, Miss Elizabeth, letter to, ii. 441.
Norton, Miss Grace, letters to, i. 35, 54, 56, 69, 93, 100, 113, 126, 268;
ii. 67, 131, 165, 293 412, 431.
Norton, Richard, ii. 380, 412, 431-3.
_Notes of a Son and Brother_, i. 1;
ii. 152, 290, 345, 360, 402.
_Notes on Novelists_, ii. 118, 153, 227, 234, 350, 409.
Oberammergau, i. 166, 169.
Ohnet, Georges, ii. 467.
Ortmans, F., i. 247.
Osbourne, Lloyd, i. 175, 176, 183, 201.
Osterley, i. 192, 193.
_Other House, The_, i. 251;
ii. 6, 129, 131.
_Outcry, The_, ii. 6, 129, 183, 202, 209, 214, 280, 291.
Oxford, ii. 153, 188, 243.
Oxford and Cambridge boat-race, i. 53.
Paget, Sir James, i. 177.
Palgrave, Miss Gwenllian, letter to, ii. 81.
Paris, i. 41, 43, 48, 51, 57, 149, 154;
ii. 5, 85, 86.
Parsons, Alfred, i. 88, 266.
_Partial Portraits_, i. 98, 110, 130.
_Passionate Pilgrim, A_, i. 12.
Pater, Walter, i. 221, 222.
Peabody, Miss, i. 115-17.
Pell, Duncan, i. 6.
Perry, Thomas Sergeant, reminiscences by, i. 6-9.
Letters to, ii. 61, 146, 167, 367, 416, 459.
Perry, Mrs. T. S., letters to, ii. 406, 427.
Philadelphia, ii. 25, 26.
Phillips, Sir Claude, letter to, ii. 376
Pinker, J. B., letters to, ii. 15, 105, 482.
Playden, i. 150.
Pollock, Sir Frederick, i. 70.
Porter, Bruce, letters to, ii. 65, 164, 302.
Porter, Mrs. Bruce, _see_ James, Miss Margaret.
_Portrait of a Lady, The_, i. 44, 132, 279;
ii. 333.
_Portraits of Places_, i. 378.
Powell, George E. J., ii. 257.
Prevost, Marcel i. 220.
Primoli, Giuseppe, i. 239.
_Princess Casamassima, The_, i. 86, 135, 325;
ii. 333.
Procter, Mrs., i. 131.
Prothero, George W., letter to, ii. 469.
Prothero, Mrs. G. W., letters to, ii. 313, 332.
Proust, Marcel, ii. 357.
_Question of Our Speech, The_, ii. 3, 35.
Quilter, Roger, ii. 233.
Raffalovich, Andre, letter to, ii. 343.
Rand, Mrs. Blanchard, _see_ Emmet, Miss Ellen.
Redesdale, Lord, ii. 249.
Renan, Ernest, i. 7.
Repplier, Miss Agnes, ii. 26, 28.
Reubell, Miss Henrietta, letters to, i. 90, 225, 333;
ii. 139.
_Reverberator, The_, i. 86.
Rheims, ii. 405, 407, 415.
Richmond, Bruce L., letter to, ii. 350.
Ritchie, Lady, letter to, ii. 304.
Rochette, Institution (Geneva), i. 5.
_Roderick Hudson_, i. 14, 41, 132;
ii. 55, 333.
Rome, i. 24, 25, 43, 56, 57;
ii. 74, 79, 80, 100, 101.
Roosevelt, President, i. 379;
ii. 273, 449.
Rosebery, Earl of, i. 77.
Rossetti, D. G., i. 18;
ii. 295.
Rostand, Edmond, i. 349, 368, 369.
Roughead, William, letters to, ii. 327, 356, 371, 373.
Runnells, Miss Alice (Mrs. William James, junior), letter to, ii. 201.
Ruskin, John, i. 7, 16, 20.
Rye, i. 150, 245, 261, 262, 264-7, 272-6;
ii. 4-7.
_Sacred Fount, The_, i. 273, 356, 408, 409.
St. Augustine (U. S. A.), ii. 27.
St. Gaudens, A., i. 255, 257, 259.
San Francisco, earthquake at, ii. 50, 52, 65.
San Gimignano, i. 195.
Sand, George, i. 51;
ii. 56, 157, 227, 228, 350, 351, 375, 387, 410.
Sands, Mrs. Mahlon, letter to, i. 186.
Sargent, John S., i. 88, 102, 334;
ii. 154, 233, 309, 316, 318, 348, 359, 366, 368, 437.
Letter to, ii. 493.
Saunders, T. Bailey, letters to, ii. 155, 186.
Saxmundham, i. 260.
Sayle, Charles, letter to, ii. 127.
Schopenhauer, i. 7.
Scott, Clement, i. 228.
Sedgwick, Arthur, i. 30.
_Sense of the Past, The_, i. 349, 352, 355;
ii. 380, 425.
Serao, Mathilde, i. 292.
Shakespeare, William, i. 424;
ii. 62, 164.
Sheridan, Wilfred, letters to, ii. 215, 470, 494.
Sheridan, Mrs. Wilfred, letters to, ii. 199, 499.
_Siege of London, The_, ii. 119.
Siena, i. 149, 193-6.
Simon, Sir John, ii. 491.
Sitwell, Mrs. (Lady Colvin), i. 152, 177, 200.
_Small Boy and Others, A_, i. 2;
ii. 153, 205, 289, 307-9.
Smalley, G. W., i. 242, 243, 281.
Smith, Goldwin, i. 52.
Smith, Logan Pearsall, letter to, ii. 337.
Smith, Miss Madeleine Hamilton, ii. 373, 374.
_Soft Side, The_, i. 273.
Spencer, Herbert, i. 60, 61.
_Spoils of Poynton, The_, i. 149, 150, 246, 408.
Stephen, Sir James, i. 177.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, i. 16, 218, 270.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, i. 86, 120, 129, 139, 217, 219, 223-5, 236,
237, 330-2, 386, 387; ii. 237, 371.
Letters to, i. 110, 130, 132, 136, 152, 155, 158, 174, 181, 188,
190, 199, 204, 207.
Stevenson, Mrs. R. L., i. 394;
ii. 66, 303.
Story, William Wetmore, i. 13, 274, 411-13, 431.
Story, Mrs. Waldo, letter to, i. 411.
Strasbourg, i. 33.
Sturges, Jonathan, i. 304, 313, 331, 334, 376.
Letter to, i. 248.
Sturgis, Howard O., ii. 200, 267, 456.
Letters to, i. 317, 428;
ii. 72, 74, 192, 330, 382.
Sturgis, Julian R., letter to, i. 212.
Sturgis, Mrs. J. R., letter to, ii. 14.
Sutro, Mrs. Alfred, letters to, ii. 319, 375, 387.
Swedenborg, i. 3.
Swinburne, A. C., ii. 246, 248, 249, 255-7, 275.
Swynnerton, Mrs., ii. 194, 195.
Symonds, John Addington, i. 378.
Letter to, i. 106.
Syracuse (N. Y.), i. 84.
Taine, H., ii. 226, 245.
Talleyrand, ii. 122.
Temple, Miss Mary, i. 26;
ii. 361, 362, 402.
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, i. 53, 66.
Terry, Miss Marion, i. 146, 235.
Thackeray, W. M., ii. 39, 40.
_Theatricals_, i. 147.
Titian, i. 20.
Tolstoy, i. 327;
ii. 237, 324.
_Tragic Muse, The_, i. 87, 136, 161, 163, 183, 325;
ii. 333.
_Transatlantic Sketches_, i. 13, 14.
Trevelyan, Sir George O., letter to, i. 432.
Turgenev, Ivan, i. 41, 42, 45, 46, 49, 85.
_Turn of the Screw, The_, i. 278, 279, 296, 298, 300, 408.
Vallombrosa, i. 171;
ii. 5, 75, 81.
Vanderbilt, George, i. 256;
ii. 25.
_Velvet Glove, The_, ii. 5.
Venice, i. 87, 168;
ii. 5, 76, 77, 81.
Vernon, Miss Anna, i. 21.
Viardot, Madame, i. 45.
Victoria, Queen, i. 372.
Vincent, Mrs. Dacre, letter to, ii. 434.
Voguee, Vicomte Melchior de, i. 316.
Wagniere, Madame, letters to, ii. 76, 144.
Waldstein, Dr. Louis, letter to, i. 296.
Walpole, Hugh, ii. 125, 126, 173.
Letters to, ii. 112, 122, 236, 244, 322, 352, 423, 444, 501.
Walsh, Miss Mary, _see_ James, Mrs. Henry, senior.
Walsh, Miss Katharine, i. 2, 13, 97, 143.
War, American Civil, i. 9;
ii. 401.
War, European, ii. 379 to end, _passim_.
War, South African, i. 331, 341, 342, 348.
War, Spanish-American, i. 280, 292.