Wm to H'ry, Jan. 24, 1909. Age: 67

Perhaps an example of why the James family wanted many of the brothers' letters burned:

"I also read your article on C(harles). E(liot). N(orton)., in the Burlington, with great gusto. He has been so magnified by everyone here...that I began to wonder if I had been stone-blind to his greatness, and the way in which you subtly killed him was inimitable. But only the few will understand the neatness."

Charles Eliot Norton in 1903