James on War and Empire

		Henry James (1843 – 1916) On this day in 1915 Henry James wrote to the British Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, to inform him of a “desire to offer myself for naturalisation in this country.” James was 72 years old, and 40 years a resident in England; this grand gesture in the early days of WWI was his way of “throwing into the scale of [England’s] fortune my all but imponderable moral weight — ‘a poor thing but mine own.””

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