Keywords
Pen Pals, Letters, History Department, Thetean
Abstract
When writing of her friendship with Henry James, Edith Wharton described their relationship as "an atmosphere of the rarest understanding, the richest and most varied mental comradeship." The friendship began in 1900, when Wharton sent James a brief note congratulating him on a recent publication. They struck up a correspondence, one chat lasted nearly fifteen years. Wharton would lacer reflect on the relationship in her autobiography, calling it "a real marriage of true minds," built upon a shared love of writing and reading. This relationship is documented in large part because of their vast correspondence, as the two authors shared details of their ideas, writing, and simple day-to-day lives.
Recommended Citation
Wood, Alison
(2021)
"Editor's Preface,"
The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing: Vol. 50:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thetean/vol50/iss1/1
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