James, Henry:

$950 · Offered by William Reese Company

[AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM HENRY JAMES TO MRS. ANDREW LANG]. To "Mrs. Lang," i.e. Leonora Blanche Alleyne (Mrs. Andrew) Lang. A cordial social letter, reading in part: "I am very sorry you should have had the trouble of writing two notes. I have but very recently returned from abroad, & have not been back to the Athenaeum. It will give me great pleasure to dine with you on Thursday 31st....With kind regards to your husband - Very truly yours H. James." James and the Langs were acquainted socially, though Lang, as a critic, was not always sympathetic to James's novels. At the point of cataloguing, in the Online Calendar of James correspondence this letter is recorded only as a typed transcript in the Edel Papers, and noted there as unpublished.

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