A Bundle of Letters

Versions of A Bundle of Letters by Henry James

Versions of A Bundle of Letters include:

• "A Bundle of Letters" in The Parisian 38 (18 December 1879): 7–9.

  —First publication; the "magazine text"

• A Bundle of Letters (Boston: Loring, 1880)

  —A pirated edition issued into the American market; reprint of the "magazine text"; sometimes referred to by the full title A Bundle of Letters; Reprinted from The Parisian.

• "A Bundle of Letters" in The Diary of a Man of Fifty and A Bundle of Letters (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1880): 71–135

  —The first authorized American book edition; follows the "magazine text".

• "A Bundle of Letters" in Washington Square, The Pension Beaurepas, A Bundle of Letters (2 volumes, London: Macmillan & Co., 1881) 2: 201–271.

  —First English book edition, published on 26 January 1881; text revised before publication; the "first book text".

• "A Bundle of Letters" in Washington Square, The Pension Beaurepas, A Bundle of Letters (1 volume, London: Macmillan & Co., 1881): 349–401.

  —Reprint of the "first book text" in a single volume

• "A Bundle of Letters" in The Madonna of the Future, A Bundle of Letters, The Diary of a Man of Fifty, Eugene Pickering (London: Macmillan and Co., 1883)

  Volume 14 of the Macmillan "Collective Edition" of 1883. Follows the "first book text".

• "A Bundle of Letters" in The Novels and Tales of Henry James 14 (New York: Scribner; London:Macmillan, 1907–1909): 479–533.

  —Revised for publication by James; the "New York Edition text".

• An unsourced edition