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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 20060101
Author:White, Edmund

HENRY JAMES & STEPHEN CRANE

Henry James had come to visit. He'd sent a telegram first and Cora had torn it open and skimmed it as she rushed to do something else, and then she'd had to sit down and parse it.

Chers Enfants-Since I will be in the vicinity of Brede for reasons I will not deprive you the pleasure of divining, I will 'drop by' toward tea time in response to your extremely kind Open' invitation (the openness of which can constitute an ambiguous ouverture d'esprit one sometime cowers before). A bientôt-your Oncle d'Amérique in lavished affection if not in fact in wealth.

She ...

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