Letters to Isabella Stewart GardnerBy: Henry James Series: Pushkin Press Classics One of the most satisfying of all letter writers. Spectator Henry Jamess beautiful letters to his friend and inspiration, the unconventional art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner Surrounded by the artists, writers and musicians who made up her court in Boston as they did in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner, a passionate art collector, was as revered and sought after as royalty. Henry James was inspired