Deck, R. H. "Notes on the Theology of Henry James Sr.". Psychohistory Rev. 1979 Summer-Fall;8(1-2):60-2.
Feinstein, Howard M. Becoming William James. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984. A psychological interpretation of Henry James Sr. as son and father.
Grattan, C. Hartley. The Three Jameses: A Family of Minds: Henry James Sr., William James, Henry James. 1932. Introduction by Oscar Gargill. New York University Press, 1962. Book II is devoted to Henry James Sr.
Habegger, Alfred. The Father: A Life of Henry James Sr.. University of Massachusetts Press reprint 2001. ISBN1-55849-331-X
Lewis, R.W.B. The Jameses: A Family Narrative. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. ISBN0-374-17861-5
Matthiessen, F.O. The James Family, Including Selections from the Writings of Henry James, Senior, William, Henry, & Alice James. New York: Alfred Knopf 1947. Vintage Books 1980 edition: ISBN0-394-74243-5. Contains selections from Henry James Sr.'s Autobiography, a fragment from The Literary Remains of Henry James; some of his letters to Emerson; an extract from Moralism and Christianity; and extracts from The Social Significance of Our Institutions.
Perry, Ralph Barton. The Thought and Character of William James, As Revealed in Unpublished Correspondence and Notes, Together with His Published Writings. Vol. I: Inheritance and Vocation. Boston: Little, Brown, 1936. Greenwood reprint: ISBN0-8371-7520-8. Vanderbilt University Press 1996 reprint: ISBN0-8265-1279-8. Part I ("His Father's Son") delves into the life of Henry James Sr.
Taylor, Andrew. Henry James and the Father Question. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.