Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
Author(s)
James, Henry
Transcript
The place looks dull, empty & colourless, & this aspect accords with my own view of it-- London is the same old London-- whose worst fault is that it has a little too much of all things. It is too humorous, too promiscuous, too stupid (sometimes) & too a great many other things. But I love it well, for all that, & the proof of my affection is that I am homesick at the moment I leave it. I hope you have a fruitful winter. New York looks to me in retrospect like a bright high-pitched heterogeneous Tiffany city- as if some big Tiffany had made it.
Jewish Women's Archive. "Letter from Henry James to Emma Lazarus, February 5, 1884, page 3." (Viewed on November 21, 2024) <https://jwa.org/media/letter-from-henry-james-to-emma-lazarus-page-3>.