Letters at the Beinecke Library included in The Letters of Edith Wharton Part I 1874-1908
Date |
Recipient |
Page/subject |
1874 23 September |
Pauline Foster DuPont |
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1900 25 July |
Robert Grant |
40 |
1901 28 February |
Sara Norton |
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12 March |
Sara Norton |
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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 |
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1 March |
Sara Norton |
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7 August |
Sara Norton |
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1907 4 January |
Robert Grant |
109 HM play, F of the T |
21 April |
Sara Norton |
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19 November |
Robert Grant |
124 "write like a man" |
18 December |
Sara Norton |
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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 |
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