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• W2017229021 abstract "James’s Hand and Gosse’s Tail: Henry James’s Letters and the Status of Evidence Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias While vacationing in Venice during the early summer of 1894, Henry James wrote to his friend Edmund Gosse on June 25th. Alluding to his own return to England and Gosse’s forthcoming trip to the continent James discussed his future plans as follows: 1 The blaze of summer is upon us and I shall presently edge away from the fire. I leave this place July 1st & return to England by the 25th. I hope this will be in time to put a little salt on your tail before you fly away. No offence meant—it is the way we talk to a singing-bird, as Torwald Ibsen would say. (SL 112) This, in any case, is how the passage is reproduced in Rayburn Moore’s clear-text edition of James’s letters to Gosse. 2 Yet an examination of the manuscript of the letter, which has long been part of Adeline Tintner’s collection now donated to the Berg Collection of English and American Literature at the New York Public Library, shows that in the third sentence of this passage James began to write: “I hope this will be in time to put my hand.” The manuscript also shows that he crossed out the word “hand,” but not “my,” wrote “a little” above the canceled “hand,” and then completed the sentence. In the manuscript, then, the sentence reads: “I hope this will be in time to put my hand ^a little^ salt on your tail.” The change here, from “my hand” to “a little salt,” is very interesting, as is the entire passage, for the glimpse it offers of the nature of James’s and Gosse’s friendship. The references to the proverb about catching birds by putting salt on their tails, to the “singing-bird,” and to Ibsen seem part of a complicated, private, literary joke between James and Gosse, both of whom knew and admired Ibsen’s [End Page 72] drama. 3 The change in the third sentence could be highly revealing about the non-literary nature of James’s and Gosse’s relationship, depending on how James initially meant to complete the sentence. James began to write, “I hope this will be in time to put my hand.” Where did he hope to put his hand? Did he at first mean to write: “I hope this will be in time to put my hand on your tail before you fly away,” think better of it after he wrote “my hand,” cross out “hand,” and replace it with “a little” followed by “salt” before writing the rest of the sentence? Or did he hope to put his hand somewhere else—in Gosse’s in a friendly handshake (near the end of the letter, James writes: “Therefore I press your hand in farewell” [SL 113]), on Gosse’s shoulder, on his doorbell?—and then after writing the word “hand” decided he preferred the phrase, “put a little salt on your tail”? No one will ever know how James initially meant to conclude the sentence. But since the “my” and the crossed-out “hand” are still legible in the letter (though “hand” is only barely so), it will never be possible not at least to suspect that James meant to write about putting his hand on Gosse’s tail or to suspect that, by leaving “hand” barely legible, James might have wanted Gosse to read his joke. The suspicion that James desired to put his hand on Gosse’s tail, of course, implies that James’s and Gosse’s relationship may have been more than just friendly. The argument that James was at least homoerotically attracted to other men is now familiar and largely accepted by scholars of James’s life and work, from Eve Sedgwick to Fred Kaplan and Sheldon Novick. And Gosse, despite being married and the father of three children, is also thought to have been sexually attracted to men; in addition to his friendship with James, Gosse had complex relationships with Hamo Thornycroft and John Addington Symonds (Kaplan, Henry James 301..." @default.
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