PREFACE 1 LETTERS: To Miss Alice James 15 To his Mother 19 To his Mother 21 To William James 24 To William James 26 To his Father 28 To Charles Eliot Norton 30 To his Parents 32 To W. D. Howells 33 To Miss Grace Norton 35 To his Mother 38

PREFACE 41 LETTERS: To his Father 45 To W. D. Howells 47 To William James 50 To William James 52 To Miss Grace Norton 54 To Miss Grace Norton 56 To William James 59 To Miss Alice James 62 To William James 65 To his Mother 67 To Miss Grace Norton 69 To W. D. Howells 71 To Charles Eliot Norton 74 To his Mother 76 To Mrs. Fanny Kemble 78

PREFACE 82 LETTERS: To Miss Henrietta Reubell 90 To Charles Eliot Norton 91 To Mrs. John L. Gardner 92 To Miss Grace Norton 93 To William James 97 To George du Maurier 98 To Miss Grace Norton 100 To William James 102 To W. D. Howells 103 To John Addington Symonds 106 To Alphonse Daudet 108 To Robert Louis Stevenson 110 To William James 111 To Miss Grace Norton 113 To William James 115 To James Russell Lowell 118 To William James 119 To Charles Eliot Norton 122 To Miss Grace Norton 126 To Edmund Gosse 129 To Robert Louis Stevenson 130 To Robert Louis Stevenson 132 To W. D. Howells 134 To Robert Louis Stevenson 136 To William James 139