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Josiah Gilbert Holland Collection, Accession 7729, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Deposit, 1964 Nov 11
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
[Will give lecture if his schedule permits.]
[Declines invitation to lecture because of prior commitment.]
[Gives lecture schedule.]
[Proposes the title "The Woman Question" for an upcoming lecture.]
[Has no plans to lecture this season; may change his mind.]
[Congratulates him on election as governor of Rhode Island ; appreciates Howard's remarks on his novel, Arthur Bonnicastle . ]
[Regrets he has no photograph to send; promises to send one later.]
[Says lost gloves not his; may belong to Col. [Thomas Wentworth] Higginson or Mr. Ayer; does not believe [Bret] Harte 's book sold for $10,000.]
[Declines to send an old poem for publication; does not have the strength to write a new one.]
[Will send letter from [Richard Watson] Gilder regarding stories submitted by Boyesen.]
[Declines invitation to lecture.]
[Says Clemens Petersen wishes to write a paper on Bjornsen; asks if this will interfere with his plans.]
[Suggests an illustrated article on the educational life of European universities.]
[Declines an invitation to write for Pershing's magazine because of his own duties to his own magazine.]
[Says Scribner's Monthly is interested in [Boyesen's] "A Daughter of the Philistines."]
[Remarks that he and [Richard Watson] Gilder cannot understand the last lines of material submitted; asks him to look it over again.]
[Has seen Mrs. Conyer; praises her hard work and successful experiment.]
[Congratulates him on his article entitled "The Government of Large Cities"; praises its moral insight and moral earnestness.]
[Gives his opinion of Walt Whitman ; belittles him and his talent as a poet; comments that Mrs. Thaxter's fever is strong.]
[Likes Stedman's work on Walt Whitman because of its critical view of the subject; calls Whitman's art a "monster" and a "bastard"; does not believe he made a contribution to American literature; compares him unfavorably to other American literary figures such as Poe, Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, and Stedman.]
[Politely refuses to publish his book.]
[Will print his pamphlet; insists it be done in Springfield ; dislikes having a local print job done at a firm a hundred miles away.]
[Declines invitation to visit because his wife is sick.]
[Reports that his own story, "Mistress of the Manse," is now ready to be printed.]