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WHARTON (EDITH)

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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WHARTON (EDITH)

Autograph letter signed, to her friend Pauline Robinson, at the Hotel Liverpool, Rue Castiglione, wishing her well in writing up her impressions of Italy ("...You were fortunate in having such a beautiful moment of the year for your Italian impressions, for I hear now the weather there is as bad as here – I can fancy how much you must have enjoyed it all, & I hope your enthusiasm did not make you overwork yourself..."), regretting that she did not see her when she called ("...but I am glad to know where to send my thanks for the little messages I received from you during the winter..."), and mentioning her own impending departure [for America]; with autograph envelope, 2 pages, lightly browned, small hole at centre, 8vo, Paris, 13 May [1903]

Footnotes

Pauline Robinson was a member of a well-to-do American family long resident in Paris, who included Theodore Roosevelt among their friends. The Robinson Family Papers are at the New York Historical Society; among them are Pauline's travel writing of c.1902-3 and a critique of Edith Wharton's House of Mirth (1905). Edith Wharton had herself toured Italy in the winter and early spring of 1903, collecting materials for Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904). Our letter is not included in The Letters of Edith Wharton, edited by R. W. B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis (1988).

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