Record Number: 7560
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accompanying MS notes: 'I deeply appreciate the admirable and generous labour that prepared for me the ms. notes to Balzac's Letters and that accompanied the Preface to your translation. [...] I have read with care every word of your preface and notes -- as I had already read the "Roman d'Amour", and bought and read much of the "Lettres a l'Etrangere".'
Century:1850-1899, 1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:England
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:15 Apr 1843
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:USA
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Preface [on Balzac]
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: proof
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:7560
Source:Henry James
Editor:Leon Edel
Title:Henry James: Letters
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date of Publication:1984
Vol:4
Page:134
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Henry James, Leon Edel (ed.), Henry James: Letters (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1984), 4, p. 134, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=7560, accessed: 16 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Ed. notes (p.136 n.1 that Wormelely translated Balzac's Comedie Humaine in forty volumes between 1855 and 1896; not clear whether James means this translation, or one of Balzac's Letters.
