Signed Letter From Henry James To Miss Ainslee July 6, 1902

London, 1902. Original Letter . No Binding. Fine. Als On Note Paper, Letterhead Of Lamb House, Rye, Sussex, To "Miss Ainslee, "I Am Very Glad To Hear From You That Your Brother Is Able To Come Down...", But Explaining That His Cousins Are Currently Staying With Him In His Only Guest Room And He Is Unable To Schedule A Date For A Visit As He Is Thereafter Also Going To The Country For Ten Days, And Is Unable To Furnish "To Douglas As Date, But I Shall Make Haste To Do So Later... That You Are To Be Here Through The Month..." Miss Ainslee Was A Sister Of His Friend Grant Duff Douglas Ainslie (1865-1948), Born Ainslie Grant Duff, An English Poet, Critic, And Diplomat; He Translated Works Of Benedetto Croce Into English; His Publications Include Chosen Poems (1928) And The Conquest Of Pleasure (1942). A Contributor To The Yellow Book, He Met And Befriended Oscar Wilde At Age Twenty-One While An Undergraduate At Oxford. He Was Also Associated With Other Such Notable Figures As Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Pater And Marcel Proust. The First Translator Of The Italian Philosopher Benedetto Croce Into English ( Translation Universally Condemned), He Also Lectured On Hegel. He Was Identified As The "Dear Ainslie" Recipient Of Twelve Letters Written By Arthur Conan Doyle In 1895 - 1896, Which Were Auctioned By Christie's In 2004. In 1913 The Oxford Philosopher And Historian, R.G. Collingwood, Translated Croce's La Filosofia Di Giambattista Vico (The Philosophy Of Giambattista Vico, London : Macmillan). He Thus Breached Ainslie's Exclusive Right Of Translation. To Avoid Legal Action, Collingwood Translated The Second Edition Of Croce's Estetica Come Scienza Dell'espressione E Linguistica Generale (Aesthetic As Science Of Expression And General Linguistic), Which Was Published Under Ainslie's Name In 1922. Ainslie Had Produced An Incomplete Translation Of The First Edition In 1909. Ainslie Was A Member Of The Royal Asiatic Society Of Great Britain And Ireland. He Also Revered The Indian Sage Sri Ramana Maharshi Who Taught The Truth Of Non-Dualism ('Advaita") And Visited Him In 1935 At His Ashram In Thiruvannamalai In Southern India.