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This paper is a byproduct of research made possible by a grant from the Penrose Fund of the American Philosophical Society. I am indebted to Mr. James Kraft for scrutiny of this paper and for several suggestions which I have incorporated.

"How Henry James Revised Roderick Hudson: A Study in Style," PMLA, XXXIX (March, 1924), 227.

"Early and Late Revisions in Henry James's 'A Passionate Pilgrim,'" American Literature, XXIII (May, 1951), 234.

"The Spoils of Poynton: Revisions and Editions," Studies in Bibliography, XIX (1966), 161-162.

Henry James: The Major Phase (1944), p. 153n.

Ibid.

Page references in this and the next paragraph are to Leon Edel's reprinting of the London text in The Complete Tales of Henry James (1963), V, 357-412.

Ibid., p. 414.

See Ernest Samuels, Henry Adams: The Middle Years (1957), pp. 168-169, for the connection with "Pandora," and pp. 274-275 for the insults of two Washington and New York papers.

"Introduction," The American Novels and Stories of Henry James (1947), p. xiv.

The Letters of Henry James, ed. Percy Lubbock (1920), II, 20, 23.

American Novels, p. xiv.

To avoid cluttering the text I hereafter cite page references only to the New York Edition (XVIII). Parallel passages in the London 1885 text (which varies only slightly from the Boston 1885 text, as described) can easily be compared in Leon Edel, ed., Complete Tales.

Henry James: The Middle Years (1962), p. 121.

There is evidently a misprint in the original New York Sun version of 1884. Instead of "comical," the adjective is "critical," which ruins the rhetorical contrast between comic and serious that James has set up.

Letters, II, 23.

Gegenheimer, "Early and Late Revisions," p. 240.

Sister Mary Brian Durkin, "Henry James's Revisions of the Style of The Reverberator," American Literature, XXXIII (November, 1961), 339.

Harvitt, p. 225.

Henry James: The Major Phase, p. 157.

Ibid.