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