Statistics for the Calendar and Register of Henry James Correspondence
 

Statistics

last updated 8 December 2000

Total letters in Calendar: 10,423

  • Unpublished letters: 7,460
  • Published letters: 2,963

Repositories (libraries, museums, archives, etc.): 132

Principal repositories (100+ letters):

  • Houghton Library, Harvard University: 3,917
  • Beinecke Library, Yale University: 905
  • Special Collections, University of Virginia Library: 630
  • Ransom Center, University of Texas: 486
  • Brotherton Collection, Leeds University: 288
  • Firestone Library, Princeton University: 241
  • Pierpont Morgan Library: 234
  • The Berg Collection, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, New York Public Library: 208
  • The Library of Congress: 185
  • The Huntington Library: 176
  • Miller Library, Colby College: 161
  • The British Library: 151
  • Central Library, Hove, East Sussex: 107
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: 100

Privately held letters: 384

Identifiable private collections: 7

Total of unlocated letters: 835

  • Unlocated published letters: 159
  • Unlocated, unpublished letters identified in the Edel Archive: 667

Individual correspondents: 1,034

Principal correspondents (100+ letters):

  • James Brand Pinker: 531
  • Edmund William Gosse: 382
  • William James: 277
  • Elizabeth Jessie Jane Allen: 224
  • Elizabeth Robins: 177
  • Grace Norton: 174
  • Edith Newbold Jones Wharton: 173
  • Alice Howe Gibbens James: 156
  • Howard Overing Sturgis: 145
  • William Dean Howells: 141
  • Charles Scribner’s Sons: 138
  • Thomas Sergeant Perry: 117
  • Frederick Orridge Macmillan: 116
  • Edward Prioleau Warren: 115
  • Mary Cadwalader Rawle Jones: 113
  • Henrietta Reubell: 113
  • Louisa Erskine Wolseley: 107
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner: 101
  • Ariana Wormeley Curtis: 100

Undated or partially dated letters: 767

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