Henry James

Notebooks of Henry James são as anotações pessoais de Henry James. Este material só foi publicado pela primeira vez em 1947, editado por F. O. Matthiessen and Kenneth B. Murdock. Geralmente tratam de assuntos profissionais e de ideias para obras futuras, mas há algumas anotações pessoais. James utilizou estes cadernos …

There were other ghosts in his life than the ghost of Mary Antrim. He had perhaps not had more losses than most men, but he had counted his losses more; he hadn't seen death more closely, but had in a manner felt it more deeply. He had formed little by little the habit of numbering his Dead: it had come to him early …