When, in the decade before he died, the elder Henry James was urged, by his children, to write his autobiography, he produced instead an autobiographical sketch of one Stephen Dewhurst, entitled Immortal Life. The Autobiography uses the literary device of another writer's manuscript that has come into the hands of the author which he edits and publishes.2 It begins with a preface in which James describes how the papers of his friend Dewhurst came into his possession. This is followed by three chapters in which Dewhurst speaks for himself describing his own early life. The text ends abruptly at this point. The manuscript was never completed and publication of the fragment was posthumous. Since then, scholars have followed the lead of William James, who edited his father's Literary Remains.