Wm to H’ry, Feb. 18, 1910. Age: 68
H’ry’s Fletcherism bane — which amounted to his almost starving himself — is for Wm a philosophical reminder that subjectivity can’t be trusted for everything:“Starvation in you had evidently thrown...
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The last bit in the correspondence containing what might be called H’ry’s emetic honesty re: his stomach: “It is still the same simple, vicious abominable thing: the refusal of my stomach to act —...
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H’ry to Wm, April 4, 1910. Age: 66
Wm has booked passage aboard the Megantic, ostensibly to save his brother from his stomach. For his part, H’ry is more pleased that Wm‘s wife is coming too: “The news of Alice’s coming is a boundless...
View ArticleWm to H’ry, May 28, 1910. Age: 68
On arriving in England, Wm made directly for Nauheim — the passage had laid him low — and wife Alice went to tend to H’ry, who was on the mend. Wm now has a diagnosis of the ailment that will kill...
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H’ry to Wm, May 31, 1910. Age: 67
H’ry writes from Hill Hall, which put him on a new regime of food and movement: “I am very definitely better, & 18 days of this place have done it. The great difference is that the change of...
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Wm to H’ry, June 2, 1910. Age: 68
A good number of Wm‘s final weeks were spent alone in rooms at the Hotel Hohenzollern in Nauheim: “My own change of lodging has been good. I find the table very suited to my case, and tho my life is...
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H’ry to Wm, June 5, 1910. Age: 67
Even before it was apparent that Wm‘s condition had turned, for the last time, for the worse, H’ry has decided to leave Lamb House and return to America with his brother, so as to pursue “salvation”:...
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H’ry to Wm, Aug. 7, 1910. Age: 67
H’ry writes the last letter of the correspondence from the Reform Club in London. Even others are aware now that Wm has begun a descent: “I dined last p.m. with ‘Minnie’ Jones & [Edith Wharton] at...
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H’ry to Wm, Aug. 7, 1910. Age: 67
H’ry’s final letter, written from London and delivered to Wm at Lamb House, hopes the garden will offer something of a cure: “Today has all the promise of beauty…& I devoutly hope you wil have...
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The End of the Correspondence
END OF VOLUME THREE H’ry returned to Lamb House, and he and Wm and wife Alice all promptly left for Chocorua. Wm died shortly after they arrived, H’ry lived another five years. No further letters...
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