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This Bibliography lists together two kinds of works: 1) some suggested further readings about Henry James and his family and friends and 2) sources for the informational notes to the letters in Dear Henry James.org. In addition to these sources, standard reference works were also consulted, such as The Oxford English Dictionary, The Oxford Companions to English, American, and French Literature, Petit Robert 2, Larousse's Grand dictionnaire universel, The Cambridge History of American Theatre, Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Dictionary of American Biography, American National Biography, The Dictionary of National Biography, The Times Atlas of the World, and contemporary Murray and Baedeker guide books.

Adress- und Geschafts-Handbuch der königlichen Residenz- und Haupstadt Dresden für das Jahr

     1865.
Dresden, 1865.

Adress- und Geschafts-Handbuch der königlichen Residenz- und Haupstadt Dresden für das Jahr

     1887.
Dresden, 1887.

Anesko, Michael, ed. Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells . New York:

     Oxford UP, 1997.

Bénézit, Emmanuel. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et

     graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays
. 6 th ed. 14 vols. Paris: Gründ, 1999.

The Beverly Directory 1886 . Boston: Sampson, 1886.

Blue Book of Beverly, Manchester and Magnolia for 1893 . Boston: Jones, 1983.

The Boston Directory for the Year Commencing July 1, 1869 . Boston: Sampson, 1869.

The Boston Directory for the Year Commencing July 1, 1870 . Boston: Sampson, 1870.

The Boston Directory for the Year Commencing July 1, 1871 . Boston: Sampson, 1871.

The Boston Directory for the Year Commencing July 1, 1872 . Boston: Sampson, 1872.

The Boston Directory for the Year Commencing July 1, 1873 . Boston: Sampson, 1873.

The Boston Directory for the Year Commencing July 1, 1889 . Boston: Sampson, 1889.

The Boston Directory for the Year Commencing July 1, 1890 . Boston: Sampson, 1890.

The Boston Directory for the Year Commencing July 1, 1891 . Boston: Sampson, 1891.

The Cambridge Directory . Boston: Dudley, 1869.

The Cambridge Directory for 1873 . Boston: Greenough, 1873.

The Cambridge Directory for 1874 . Boston: Greenough, 1874.

“Current Literature.” Boston Daily Advertiser 3 April 1874: 1.

Dain, Phylis. The New York Public Library: A History of Its Founding and Early Years . New York: New

     York Public Library, 1972.

Edel, Leon. Henry James. 5 vols. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1953-1972.

Edel, Leon, and Dan H. Laurence. A Bibliography of Henry James . 3 rd ed. Oxford: Oxford-Clarendon,

     1982.

Frances Rollins Morse Papers. Schlesinger Library. Radcliffe College.

Gordon, Lyndall. A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art . New York: Norton, 1998.

Habegger, Alfred. The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr . New York: Farrar, 1994.

Harlow, Virginia. Thomas Sergeant Perry: A Biography . Durham: Duke UP, 1950.

Hastings, Katharine. William James of Albany , N. Y. (1771-1832) and his descendants . New York, n.

      p. 1924.

Hopkins, Griffith Morgan. Atlas of the City of Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts .

      Philadelphia: Hopkins, 1873.

James, Alice. The Death and Letters of Alice James . Ed. Ruth Bernard Yeazell. Berkeley: U California

     P, 1981.

---. Her Life in Letters . Ed. Linda Anderson. Bristol: Thoemmes, 1996.

James, Henry. Collected Travel Writings: The Continent . New York: Library of America, 1993.

---. The Complete Letters of Henry James . Ed. Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias.

      Forthcoming.

---. Complete Stories 1864-1874 . New York: Library of America, 1999.

---. Italian Hours . Collected Travel Writings: The Continent . New York: Library of America, 1993.

---. Literary Criticism . 2 vols. New York: Library of America, 1984.

---. Notes of a Son and Brother . New York: Scribner's, 1914.

---. Transatlantic Sketches . Boston: Osgood, 1875.

James, Henry, Sr. The Secret of Swedenborg: Being an Elucidation of His Doctrine of the Divine

      Natural Humanity
. Boston: Ticknor, 1869.

James, William. The Correspondence of William James . 12 Vols. Ed. Ignas K. Skrupskelis and

      Elizabeth M. Berkeley. Charlottesville: U Virginia P, 1992-2004.

Jobe, Steven, and Susan Gunter. A Calendar of the Letters of Henry James and a Biographical

     Register of Henry James's Correspondents.
Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1999.

     http://jamescalendar.unl.edu.

Kaplan, Fred. Henry James: The Imagination of Genius: A Biography . New York: Morrow, 1992.

Lewis, R. W. B. The Jameses: A Family Narrative . New York: Farrar, 1991.

Maher, Jane. Biography of Broken Fortunes: Wilkie and Bob, Brothers of William, Henry and Alice

     James
. Hamden: Archon, 1986.

Moore, Rayburn S. “The Letters of Alice James to Anne Ashburner, 1873-78: The Joy of

     Engagement.” Resources for American Literary Study 27 (2001): 17-64, 196-236.

Novick, Sheldon M. Henry James: The Young Master . New York: Random, 1996.

---. Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes . Boston: Little, 1989.

Odell, George Clinton Densmore. Annals of the New York Stage . 10 vols. New York: Columbia UP,

     1927-1949.

Probate Records of Suffolk County Massachusetts, 1890. Massachusetts State Archives.

Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates 1636-1930 . Cambridge: Harvard, 1930.

Sedgwick.org: Sedgwick Genealogy Worldwide . Ed. Dennis Sedgwick. http://www.sedgwick.org.

Simon, Linda. Genuine Reality: A Life of William James . New York: Harcourt, 1998.

Skrupskelis, Ignas K., and Elizabeth M. Berkeley. “Biographical Register.” The Correspondence of

     William James
. 12 vols. Ed. Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M. Berkeley. Charlottesville: U

     Virginia P, 1992-2004. 1: 391-413, 4: 603-21.

Strouse, Jean. Alice James: A Biography . Boston: Houghton, 1980.

“A Terrible Flood.” Boston Daily Advertiser 18 May 1874: 1.

Turner, James. The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.

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