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[Mentions "Revival Literature," "Dictionary of the Bible," by Smith and Harper's "Bible Cyclopaedia."]
[Confirms the receipt of $10 for one copy of the reproduction of Turner's etchings; reports on John Ruskin 's health.]
[Refers to "drawings" which should be shown at the conveniece of General di Cesnola; suggests Professor Ware's assistance; mentions Mr. Dodge.]
[Suggests the printing of 2000 copies of Reminiscences to be published in the United States ; opposes a publication in England . ]
[Thanks him for a small volume of "Volk Songs" which (?) Phillips has translated into English.]
[Asks him to serve as chairman of a Committee on Membership of the Archaeological Institute of America ; suggests Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Cardiner M. Lane as the two other members.]
[States that he does not intend, now or later, to write about James Russell Lowell for any journal of public print; suggests that people who have been less close to Lowell should write about him; compliments Carman on his poems.]
[Discusses a paper on James Russell Lowell by Underwood which appeared in the Contemporary ; says he would like to read Underwood's "Reminiscences" [ Quabbin, The Story of A Small Town ]; tells of his plan to publish a selection of Lowell's letters with his own "slender narrative" to serve as a biography; mentions poem, " Carter's Goat . "]
[Thanks her for the loan of a [Lowell] letter; refers to a notice in the Nation dealing with Lowell's love-letters, claiming that they have been handed about a large circle of friends; hopes that she can shed light on the matter and is sure that Lowell himself burned the letters, not [Mabel Lowell] Burnett . ]
[Asks him to visit at a later date unless he has to have his question answered at once.]