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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner

correspondent (Albany, New York, 1811 - 1882, Boston)
Date22 August 1882
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions17.8 x 22.2 cm (7 x 8 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.002158
eMuseum ID727114
Other NumberU3s166
EmbARK ObjectID24690
TMS Source ID9025
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner maintained a cordial friendship with Henry James’s father and namesake, who wrote to decline a social invitation she had extended in 1882. He states that his daughter Alice, a writer who suffered from a range of illnesses, was unwell enough “to prevent her making any engagements out of her house for a month to come.”