...sometimes mistaken for affectation— or, more quaintly, for an artless form of Anglomania! — was really the partial victory over a stammer which in his boyhood...him so difficult to casual acquaintances probably spraiii1 from the same defect. To have too much time in which to weigh each word before uttering it...

...THE QUESTION OF SPEECH His slaw way of speerh, sometimes mistahin for affertation . . . was really the partial victory over a stammer which in his boyhood had been thought incurable. The rlaborate politeness and the involved phrasrology that made off-hand interrouese with him so difficult...

...life gives her words special authority. According to her, Henry's slow way of speech ... was really the partial victory over a stammer which in his boyhood had been thought incurable.21 This is a rare piece of evidence, but it is not impossible to find half-conscious reminiscences...

...stutterers write and the way they speak. James's "slow way of speaking," wrote Edith Wharton, "was really the partial victory over a stammer which in his boyhood had been thought incurable." On the one hand, James apparently wrote as if his writing was always supposed to be read aloud. The...