Collection of 6 autograph letters signed, to various recipients, as follows:
1. To [Mary Mapes] Dodge. 1 page, partially discolored, small tears. He has nothing he can send for her publication. "The work I have in hand -- a long poem for the Xmas number of Harper's Magazine -- will occupy all the time I can give to matters outside of The Atlantic. The Atlantic has only one editor, and it ought to have three!".
2. To T.W. Higginson. Feb. 18, 1890. 2-1/2 pages, edges chipped. Fine letter about H.H. Brownell "really the only poet produced by the War. His mother was Rebellion and his father Loyalty....The flame in his verse was lighted at the mouth of the "Hartford's" cannons. He has two or three poems, to have written which seems to me nearly as fine a thing as to have captured two or three towns. I don't agree with you on the value of contemporary criticism -- excepting if it is mine! Not a man in England saw how fine a poet Keats was, save Hunt and Shelley (after Keats was dead) and one or two other persons who were laughed at....When the American [word missing] of to-day comes to be sifted in 1990, there will be found in the sieve a great many grains of gold from Brownell's mine...."
3. To the House Committee of the Aldine Club. March 19. 1892. Regrets, unable to attend a meeting.
4. To. [H.W.] Mabie. March 12, 1893. Suggests guests for his speech to the Aldine Club: Howard Pyle, Mr. Smedley, Mr Reinhart, Mr. Appleton Brown, Mr Brander Matthews. "The four artists named have illustrated things of mine....It should not be known that I have suggested any guests - otherwise there's trouble in store for me with William Winter and his two or three score of friends"
5. To Laurens Maynard. Nov. 30, 1901. 2 pp. Thanks for the portrait on Japanese paper...."I must beg you to limit the separate reproductions of the photograph to the six copies mentioned."
6. To a Mr Ganch [?]. "I didn't observe until this moment that one of the two sonnets I selected closes with a couplet. I long ago registered a vow in heaven never to print a sonnet that commits suicide by turning itself into an epigram! So I can use but one of the group...." Item #28819
Price: $1,500.00