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Notes
Leon Edel, "Autobiography in Fiction: An Unpublished Review by Henry James," Harvard Library Bulletin, XI (1957), 245-257.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.
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.
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.'"
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
without . . . vanity added: period after fancies changed to comma, without squeezed onto end of line, causing . . . vanity inserted above line
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
when . . . soul. inserted, when she says of her heroine without further demonstration that she has a hungry heart. deleted
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