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Leon Edel, "Autobiography in Fiction: An Unpublished Review by Henry James," Harvard Library Bulletin, XI (1957), 245-257. Mr. Edel publishes for the first time and discusses James's earliest holograph manuscript, a review of Bayard Taylor's John Godfrey's Fortunes. The manuscript of Two Men was probably written several months after that of John Godfrey's Fortunes.

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The Nation, I, October 26, 1865, 537-538. Identification made in William M. Gibson and George Arms, A Bibliography of William Dean Howells (1948), p. 90.

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Harpers, LXXVIII (May 1889), 987.

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Round Table, II (October 7, 1865), 70.

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Richard Henry Stoddard, Recollections: Personal and Literary (1903), p. 131. When Mrs. Stoddard's novels were reissued in three collected volumes (Revised Edition: Philadelphia, 1901), she gave a somewhat different version of this letter at the end of her introduction published with The Morgesons, p. vi: "Pray pardon my frankness, for what is the use of saying anything, unless we say what we think? . . . Otherwise it seemed to me as genuine and lifelike as anything that pen and ink can do. There are very few books of which I take the trouble to have an opinion at all, or of which I could retain any memory so long after reading them as I do of 'The Morgesons.'"

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Henry James, Notes of a Son and Brother (1914), p. 106.

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Reproduced by permission of C. Waller Barrett and the Henry James estate.

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above the title appears "Henry James Jr." written in the pencil hand of Charles Eliot Norton; in upper left hand corner is a small, unidentifiable mark, most likely a bookseller's code

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gen is written over three illegible letters

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almost brutally crossed out in pencil by Charles Eliot Norton and curiously written in by him; only change on manuscript in pencil and not by James

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