1. Edmund Gosse, ‘Henry James’, The London Mercury, No. 7 (1920), p. 33.
2. Hugh Walpole, ‘Henry James: a Reminiscence’, Horizon, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1940), p. 76.
3. Henry James, The Middle Years (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1917), pp. 1–2.
4. See Leon Edel and Lyall H. Powers (eds), The Complete Notebooks of Henry James (Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 238.
5. Rayburn S. Moore (ed.) Selected Letters of Henry James to Edmund Gosse 1882–1915: a Literary Friendship (Louisiana University Press, 1988), p. 32.