Letters at the Beinecke Library included in The Letters of Edith Wharton Part I 1874-1908

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Date

Recipient

Page/subject

1874 23 September

Pauline Foster DuPont

 

1900 25 July

Robert Grant

40

1901 28 February

Sara Norton

 

     12 March

Sara Norton

 

     20 May

Sara Norton

Teddy's mother's illness; a visit

     25 November

Sara Norton

Charmed with Santayana's poems

1902 24 January

Sara Norton

EW's birthday; Mrs. Pat Campbell; Schopenhauer; "bloodless existence"

     13 February

Sara Norton

Weakness of Valley of Decision: not fused characters sufficiently

     24 February

Sara Norton

Russian novelists; "Tourgeneff"; reviews of Valley of Decision

      2 April

Sara Norton

60 Valley of Decision reviews; S. Weir Mitchell on Valley

     17 May

Margaret Terry Chanler

Response to Valley; Bay Lodge; F. Marion Crawford; Newport

      7 June

Sara Norton

The Prison by Brewster; Lenox; garden; metaphysics

     29 August

Sara Norton

visit to Newport; tennis; T. Roosevelt

      7 September

M. T. Chanler

2 unread books: Brewster's Statuette and W.James's Varieties of Religious Experience; gaffes & Marie Corelli

     30 September

Sara Norton

visits to Ashfield; trip to Italy

     10 October

Richard Watson Gilder

Italian Villas; British spelling

1903  8 March

M. T. Chanler

Delighful Rome; travel to Caprarola; the Brewsters

     17 March

Sara Norton

advice about Rome; Violet Paget--lecture series for girls?

     18 March

R. W. Gilder

visited 26 Tuscan villas; photography; increase in expenses - $2000 instead of $1500 for articles?

      5 June

Sara Norton

84 "wretched exotics"; return to Lenox; parched gardens

1904  5 May

Sara Norton

motor-trip across France; visiting Cambridge

     19 August

Sara Norton

eye problems; Am. nurses; "bananas for breakfast"

1905 26 December

Sara Norton

at Biltmore; Christmas fete; gardens

1906 21 February*[No: this is at the Houghton Library]

Sara Norton

in Lenox; reading admirable Ostwick lecture-"fine Stoic note"; Paulsen; Kuno Fischer on Schopenhauer

     26 February

Robert Grant

 

      1 March

Sara Norton

 

      7 August

Sara Norton

 

1907  4 January

Robert Grant

109 HM play, F of the T

     21 April

Sara Norton

 

     19 November

Robert Grant

124 "write like a man"

     18 December

Sara Norton

 

1908 16 March

Sara Norton

136 Darwin, Taine

     12 April

Sara Norton

Mrs. H. Ward, Julia Bride

     29 May

Sara Norton

146 HJ portrait; Darwinism; great American Novel

      7 July

Sara Norton

159 body & soul split

     17 October

Sara Norton

SN's father's dying

     18 November

Sara Norton

165 HJ, Sturgis, Brede Place

      3 December

Sara Norton

Cliveden; Gosse

     26 December

John Hugh Smith