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William Allen Butler Collection, Accession 7160-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Deposit 1964 May 22
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
[Includes advertising circular; considers credit risks of [Lee and Carl ?] who have "paid promptly" and [ W. B. Kern ?] whom "it is not prudent to trust."]
[Intends to lend an article on Palermo, written for the Independent , to Richards for his weekly paper.]
[Says he sent pieces appropriate for [Our] Young Folks to Ticknor at Mr. Fields' suggestion; requests their return, as he has received no response after a month.]
[Writes that poem in question was written between 1868 and 1871 and published in Harper's Monthly Magazine as well as in Butler's volume of poems.]
[Responds to request for address of John Lyons by suggesting the inquiry should go to another William Allen Butler who perhaps handled the land transaction.]
[Responds to request for his autograph and autograph of Evert A. Duyckinck by sending his own and referring the correspondent to others for Duyckinck's.]
[Thanks him for volume of New World containing account of the "MacKenzie case," suggests it was written by Daniel E. Sickels ; sends brief, prepared by his father and [Charles] O'Connor , and a copy of the log of the ["Somers"] which records proceedings resulting in the mutineers execution.]
[Sends requested photograph, refers to engraved "likeness" of himself in the American Portrait Gallery . ]
[Thanks him for volume of the New World containing and article on the "Somers" case; mentions another magazine piece on the topic.]