A Guide to the William Cullen Bryant Collection, 1876
A Collection in
the Clifton Waller Barrett Library
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 6244-ab
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Preferred Citation
William Cullen Bryant Collection, Accession # 6244-ab, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This holding was purchased from Jerry Showalter of Ivy, Virginia on December 20, 1994.
Scope and Content Information
This holding contains two letters from William Cullen Bryant to Emily Hardy of Oshkosh, Wisconsin; the first dates from December 5, 1876 and the second dates from December 18, 1876.
Contents List
Bryant offers to look at Hardy's compositions if they are brief manuscripts such as poetry, declining to assist her in getting her work published as the "editors of the literary periodicals prefer to be guided by their own judgement..." and giving advice on how to proceed with getting her work published.
Bryant writes that Hardy's "rhymed poems have a good deal of promise, and show that you have the power of expressing emotion in verse," gives advice on how to correct and perfect her writing, and discusses the methods of literary periodicals in dealing with publishing manuscripts.