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Paul Hamilton Hayne Collection, Accession 6495-b, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Purchase -Barrett Fund [ 1964 Mar 23 ] 1964 May 5
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[Asks him to publish [" The Bazar "]; feels that this poem will be his last contribution because of his failing health; asks him to advise [Henry Mills] Alden to publish two other poems in Harper's Weekly rather than " East Wind "; consoles the him on the death of his father; discusses death; criticizes a number of contemporary writers for their detached view on "the possible annihilation of their species"; feels these writers reduce saints and martyrs to "superstitious ideals"; quotes Swinburne.]