London

"Perhaps the most intimate and personal of all the questing for pictures was the search for and capture of the London scenes, for with most of these I had the personal guidance and collaboration of the author. Henry James knew his London as few men have known it, in all its quaintness, its mystery, and its charm. He obviously enjoyed our search, for he wrote of the street scenery of London “yielding a rich harvest of treasures from the moment I held up to it, in my fellow artist’s company, the light of our fond idea—the idea, that is, of the aspect of things or combinations of objects that might, by a latent virtue in it, speak of its connection with something in the book, and yet at the same time speak enough for its odd or interesting self.” H.J. knew so perfectly what we should achieve, for after all it was his books we were illustrating, but in spite of this, the photographs were essentially mine!"