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Letter from Henry James to Emma Lazarus, February 5, 1884, page 1

Letter from Henry James to Emma Lazarus, February 5, 1884, page 1

Letter from Henry James to Emma Lazarus, February 5, 1884, page 1.

Courtesy of Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

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5 February 1884
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Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
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James, Henry
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Paris Feb. 5th [1884]
3 Bolton St. Picadilly

Dear Miss Lazarus,

Your friendly appreciation of my article about Turgenieff gives me real pleasure, as it does also so to get such direct news of you. Your other letter never reached me & inquiry at the Army-Navy Club has elicited no traces of it. I am very sorry to have missed such a gratification & I have never [continued on the next page]

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Letter from Henry James to Emma Lazarus, February 5, 1884, page 1." (Viewed on June 15, 2026) <https://qa.jwa.org/media/letter-from-henry-james-to-emma-lazarus-page-1>.