Abstract
While his lawyers in England search for the erstwhile French lieutenant's woman, Charles Smithson, newly arrived in America, meets several of the young country's political and literary lights. One whom he just misses 'was himself on the early threshold of a decision precisely the opposite in its motives and predispositions, a ship, as it were, straining at its moorings in a contrary current and arming for its sinuous and loxodromic voyage to the richer though silted harbor of Rye (but I must not ape the master).' Thus Charles fails to connect with Henry James —and no great matter; Fowles himself, however, did connect, I think—a connection which matters significantly.
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