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Henry James to William Dean Howells, 13 January 1875: "I have been staying at Mrs. Owen Wister's and having Fanny Kemble read Calderon for me tete a tete of a morning."
'Sunday Jan. 2nd. 1820 Florence Read a little Spanish -- Los Cabellos de [...] Absalon de Calderon de la Barca.'
'Thursday Jany 6. [...] Finish reading los Cabellos de Absalon of Calderon. Read the Life of Theseus.'
'Friday Jany. 7th. [...] Read -- the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon. Finish the Life of Theseus.'
'Saturday Jany. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno de Calderon -- Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while Shelley reads the Gospel of Mathew [sic] aloud.'
'Friday Feb. 11th. [...] Begin La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon della Barca [...] In the Evening read [...] the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'
'Saturday Feb. 12th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderon de la Barca. Finish the second part of Paine's Rights of Man [goes on to comment on this].'
'Wednesday Feb. 16th. [...] Read a little of La Cisma de Ingalaterra.'
'Saturday Feb. 19th. Read 1 Scene in the Cisma de Ingalaterra. Begin Davanzati's Tacitus.'
'Wednesday Feb. 23rd. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra -- in which the Queen Catterine tells Henry that [...] Jane Seymour can sing, Ana Bolena dance and the Infanta Maria knows the elements of Moral Philosophy'.
'Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.'
'Saturday May 6th. [...] Read a little of De la Virgen del Sagrario de Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca [quotes three lines from Act I]' [readings from this text also recorded on 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 May 1820].