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George Cary Eggleston Collection, Accession 6331-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Deposit [1963 Dec 17] 1964 Aug 25
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[Thanks for liberal dealings and promises to repay their courtesy with article on Thomas DeQuincey . ]
[Asks her to contribute article to American Homes magazine.]
[Discusses type of stories she should write for American Homes . Detailed description of his plans for American Homes . Mentions his previous association with Hearth and Home . ]
[Accepts invitation to meet [Anna Elizabeth] Dickinson . Comments on Virginia 's social rules. Passing mention of Edmund Clarence Stedman . ]
[Regrets that he cannot attend party for Axel Carl Johan Gustafson and Mrs. Zadel (Barnes) Buddington Gustafson . Passing mention of Edward Eggleston . ]
[States that the Commercial Advertiser will reprint their interview the following day.]
[Acknowledges receipt of check from D. Appleton and Company as payment for article on Robert E. Lee in Volume III of the Cyclopedia of American Biography . ]
[Thinks he may have made an error in dates in the Cold Harbor sketch. Asks to see a proof of the article. Note: This article was published in Leaders of the Civil War , Volume 4, p. 230-32, edited by Robert Underwood Johnson . ]
[Thinks he verified text of Rossiter Raymond 's "Cavalry Song" by comparing it to version in Francis Fisher Browne 's Bugle Echoes . Note: a check of Browne's Bugle Echoes reveals that Rossiter Raymond 's "Calvary Song" is not contained in it.]
[Discusses list of great sayings of noted men sent to George Cary Eggleston and William Henry Merrill for review and additions. Notes that the saying attributed to Thomas Gold Appleton was made by George Dennison Prentice . ]
[States that Techumseh was written by Edward Eggleston and his daughter, Elizabeth Lillie Eggleston Seelye and published by Dodd, Mead & Company , New York . ]
[Thanks Edmund Clarence Stedman to the personally inscribed copy of "Mater Coronata" which he has presented to his son, Cary Eggleston . Comments on his son's literary abilities. Passing mention of the poem, "The Lord's Day Gale." ]
[Discusses problems with the novel, A Captain in the Ranks . Finds Carolyn Melissa Winward 's assistance valuable and will send manuscript to her to copy. Mentions interruptions to his work: headaches, visitors, and his son's marriage on Sept 8. Note: Date of this letter based on dedication of above novel to "Mabel on her wedding day, Sept 8, 1904."]
[Explains that his son has not answered the letter in William Wallace Young 's behalf because his son has been in upstate New York . Answer due tomorrow will be put in the "y" box at the Author's Club.]