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

Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Cambridge, Massachusetts

correspondent (1884 - 1957)
Date3 March 1916
Place MadeCambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions17.1 x 27.3 cm (6 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.002156
eMuseum ID726325
EmbARK ObjectID24711
TMS Source ID9044
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryShortly after Henry James’s death on 28 February 1916, Isabella Stewart Gardner sent a note of condolence to his surviving family members. This letter from Alice Runnells James, wife of the painter William James, Jr., expresses her thanks for Gardner’s acknowledgment of their loss “of a dear & loving uncle & friend,” and notes that he “always spoke to me admiringly & affectionately of you.”