Four Meetings

by Henry James (1843-1916)

Versions of Four Meetings include:

• "Four Meetings" in Scribner's Monthly 15 (1) (November 1877): 44–56.

  — First publication in any form.

• "Four Meetings" in Daisy Miller: A Study, An International Episode, Four Meetings (2 volumes, London: Macmillan & Co., 1879) 2: 175–263.

  — First English book edition; two volumes; revised for publication by James.

• "Four Meetings" in Daisy Miller: A Study, An International Episode, Four Meetings (1 volume, London: Macmillan & Co., 1879): 317–380.

  — Reprint of the first English book edition in a single volume; title page gives year of publication as 1879, but it was actually published in January 1880.

• "Four Meetings" in Daisy Miller: A Study, An International Episode, Four Meetings (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1879): ?–?.

  — First Continental book edition; Volume 1819 of Tauchnitz's "Collection of British Authors" series.

• "Four Meetings" in Daisy Miller, Four Meetings, Longstaff's Marriage, Benvolio (London: Macmillan & Co., 1883): 75–107.

  — Volume 13 of the "Collective Edition of 1883"; uses the first English book edition text.

• "Four Meetings" in The Author of Beltraffio, Pandora, Georgina's Reasons, The Path of Duty, Four Meetings (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1885): 319–362.

  — First American book edition; revised for publication by James.

• "Four Meetings" in The Novels and Tales of Henry James (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907–1909) 16: 267–312.

  — The "New York Edition" text; this is the last edition to be revised for publication by James.

• "Four Meetings" in Daisy Miller, An International Episode, Four Meetings (London: Thomas Nelson, 1918): 213–253.

  — A posthumous publication; uses the first English book edition text.

• "Four Meetings" in The Author of Beltraffio, The Middle Years, Greville Fane, and Other Tales (London: Macmillan, 1922): 235–275.

  — Volume 21 of The Novels and Stories of Henry James, the first posthumous collection of James' works; uses the "New York Edition" text.