ALS, 1909 August 9 : Lamb House, Rye, Sussex, to Bruce Porter.

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James, Henry, 1879-1947. ALS, 1909 August 9 : Lamb House, Rye, Sussex, to Bruce Porter.

ALS, 1909 August 9 : Lamb House, Rye, Sussex, to Bruce Porter.

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James apologizes at length for not answering Porter's letter, sends thanks for the Arthur Atkins volume, and mentions a visit from Fanny Stevenson (Robert Louis Stevenson's widow). He says: "Fanny F. (for S.) is always, for me, such a 'likeable' old scamp, in spite of her primitive passions, that my heart weakly warmed to her & I wd fain have seen her more ..." James had the distinction of being the only friend of Robert Louis Stevenson with whom Fanny had not quarrelled. Not recorded in Vol. IV of "The Letters of Henry James," edited by Leon Edel. In "The Complete Notebooks of Henry James," Edel notes that Porter of San Francisco was an amateur of the arts whom James had met during his lecture tour of 1904-05.

8 1/2 p. ; 25.5 x 20.5 cm.

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