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Rufus Wilmot Griswold Collection, Accession 7104-b, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Deposit [ 1963 December 17 ] 1967 June 27
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
[Requests publication of excerpts from the Emancipator and his correspondence with students of Bangor Theological Seminary which had appeared in the Evangelist . ]
[Accompanying the corrected copy of a report. Offers to write a preface to it. Sends respects to Mr. [Richard Henry] Dana and inquires about the cost of 10,000 copies of the report.]
[Comments on a melancholy letter received from Rufus Wilmot Griswold and negotiates the sale of two tales to Graham's Magazine . ]
[Acknowledges receipt of three copies of his short story and expresses concern over its having been published in an unauthorized form. Also asks about the payment he will receive for it.]
[Regrets he cannot comply with the request for an article on Romanism because of other commitments.]
[Accompanying a biographical sketch. Expresses appreciation for Griswold's contributions to American literature. Suggests that the first great original national writing will come from the south.]
[Requests that Griswold call briefly to see his sculpture.]
[Concerns his recent trip to Europe , the publication of the Life of Poe and the Life of Paul Jones . Requests letters of Washington Irving , George Payne Rainsford , or other "worthies."]
[Regrets his inability to participate in planning a memorial to James Fenimore Cooper and expresses his admiration of Cooper's work.]
[Announces gift of Cooper's History of the Navy to Rufus Wilmot Griswold and requests any letters regarding Mr. Cooper addressed to Mr. [Washington] Irving or Rufus Wilmot Griswold be sent to him.]
[Asks that he call to discuss with Mr. [Horatio] Greenough the intentions of the Bostonians regarding publication of " The Memorial . "]
[Concerns an accident in which Rufus Wilmot Griswold 's daughter was injured. Mentions his book which he hoped Rufus Wilmot Griswold would "give notice of."]
[Indicates his desire to visit Rufus Wilmot Griswold while in New York . ]
[Expresses appreciation of The Republican Court in which several ancestors ( James Logan , a Morris, a Neill, Thomas Lloyd , the Moore s) are mentioned. Indicates a volume on the Neill family is being sent to Rufus Wilmot Griswold ]
[Inquires about a story submitted for publication, and rates paid various authors such as [Nathaniel Parker] Willis and [Caroline Matilda] Kirkland . Also asks when Rev. Ballads and Anecdotes of the American Bar will be sent.]