Adeline Tintner’s recent donation to the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at the New York Public Library makes generally available for the first time what had been one of the most significant private collections of James manuscript material. The collection consists of 130 pieces of correspondence by Henry James, two letters to Henry James, seven letters by William James, six letters by Henry James, Sr., sixteen letters by Alphonse Daudet (thirteen of which are to Theodore Child), twenty-four other letters, and eleven additional James-related items.

The addition of 130 letters by Henry James significantly expands both the number and the diversity of the James letters in the Berg Collection, which previously held seventy-three letters by James, thirty-one of which were to one correspondent, Edward Marsh (Jobe).