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Lewis Gaylord Clark Collection, Accession 7503, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Deposit, 11 May 1964
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
[Concerns recent purchase of Knickerbocker Magazine and planned improvements. Additional contributors announced. Requests publication at Hart's establishment, and welcomes literary contributions from Miss Leslie, a relative of Hart.]
[Requests for publication two lectures given by Babcock to the Mercantile Library Association at Clinton Hall.]
[Mentions reading and enjoying a work of Briggs', "Scene at a Police-Court" in the Mirror . Mentions sending a note to [Charles ?] Dickens . ]
[Appreciation of Fish's and Millard Fillmore 's efforts and mentions St. Nicholas Festival. Mentions an amusing speech by Washington Irving . ]
[Will return poetry to Guild as there is enough in magazine.]
[Mentions trip with family to Lake Erie . Refers to extract of letter to Butler in Nov. issue of Harpers . ]
[Praise for Charles Dickens . ]
[Mentions clippings and article from London [?] Times . ]
[Requests Harpers to send any books for notice in the July issue of the Knickerbocker Magazine . ]
[Mentions enclosing a letter from "poor old Brown" and a new play by George Y. Holecest for Miss Rose Stake . ]
[Social letter with questions about Griswold family . Mentions that his eldest daughter is very ill.]