[Rarebooks] Henry James, ALS, excellent content.

[Mark Stirling]

For Sale from Up-Country Letters, South Lake Tahoe, California:

 

James, Henry.  Autograph Letter, signed, to Mrs. Sellar, Feb. 19th, (no year but 1885).  Both sides of a small (4 1/2 x 3 5/8 inches) card.  "3 Bolton St. W.  Dear Mrs. Sellar, I am very sorry to say your kind invitation for tomorrow finds me engaged.  I have promised to go to poor Lowell at dinner-time (you will have heard of his wife's death today) as he is completely alone, & it is a time when I can sit with him for a couple of hours.  With many thanks & regrets, very truly yours, Henry James."  Frances Lowell had been semi-invalid for many years.  After one bad spell in 1880 James had written to Charles Eliot Norton that Lowell ".....has a most child-like temperament in his way of taking troubles, & relief from them".  A Fine letter.   $900

 

 

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