Mr Henry James visiting America: Extract from his unspoken thoughts: "...so that in fine, let, without further beating about the bush, me make to myself amazed acknowledgement that, but for the certificate of birth, which I have - quite indubitably - on me, I might, in regarding (and, as it somewhat were, overseeing) a l'oeil de voyageur these dear good people, find hard to swallow or even to take by subconscious injection the great idea that I am - oh ever so indigenously - one of them".
Datum
1890 - 1910
Borrowed by Lucy Woolhouse trainee librarian for America Exhibition 2014.
