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Rufus Wilmot Griswold Collection, Accession 7104-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Deposit [ 1963 December 17 ] 1964 July 23
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[Requests additional poems and biographical information to be included in a proposed new collection to be titled The Poets and Poetry of America . ]
[Recommends that George B. Leiber become the new agent in Philadelphia for the [Boston] Notion . ]
[Discusses current literary projects and requests assistance in obtaining pamphlet by [Orestes] Brownson and in writing a brief sketch on [Francis] Bowen including Coleridgism, Emersonism, transcendentalism--"a retrospect of philosophy in the United States . " Also mentions [William Gilmore] Simms , Edgar Allan Poe and [Joel Tyler] Headley . ]
[Concerns summer travels of friends and himself. Writes scathingly of "the learned Blacksmith" ( Elilu Burritt ), William Hewitts and Mary Hewitt . ]