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Richard Henry Stoddard Collection, Accession 8456-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Deposit [ 17 Dec 1963 ] 20 Feb 1967
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[Quotation of first verse of a poem.]
[Yearns to meet him and read his book; says he had many laughs while reading Saxe's book; compliments him on a book which has gone into third edition and which Stoddard has given to a friend traveling in Europe . ]
[Compliments him on his choice of English poems to be published in Folk Songs ; predicts that Palmer will easily find a publisher.]
[Says he is making himself a small collection of choice autograph poems of American poets; asks him to copy his poem "Ben Bolt."]
[Urges him to do something in a literary and financial way for Henry Timrod . ] (tipped in The Bryant Festival at the Century , 1865)
[Lauds Folk Songs ; says his collection of autographs includes one of the best later poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning from a volume on the Italian war, he has nothing complete of [ William Makepiece] Thackeray or Jean Jungelton and he could find manuscripts of short poems of Robert Buchanan or [ Algernon Charles] Swinburne ; encloses copy of " Birds . "]
[Informs her that anything of his appearing in The Critic is at her and "the Critics" service.]
[Recommends F. B. Stan[d]ford , a practiced writer who wrote reviews for The Independent . ]
[Wonders if Alden could use, and pay for, a poem by J. Hamstead , an elderly clergyman whose verse has been published gratis in the Evangelist ; thinks even more highly of his work that of [William Cullen] Bryant . ]
[Remarks about his poor eyesight, evident in his writing, which is difficult to decipher; discusses a paper of 1500-1800 words, which he sends to Bacheller.]
[Discusses his Japanese verse which appeared in Scribner; says he and his wife are pleased that Hopkins liked it.]
[Includes date 1881 May 2 on verso.]
[Says he has not acknowledged a call from Terris' daughter due to rheumatism in the right hand; tells her to get in touch with his publisher for a photo of him.]
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