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Concord, Mass., August 12, 1901.
Dear Wilder;
Since I wrote you my little Emerson volume has come out; and I have indited a still smaller one for C. A. Goodspeed, who published Whittier's letters to Elizur Wright, to issue in a small, costly edition, with fac-similes and a picture or two, - 'The Personality of Thoreau'. John Albee, whom I think you used to know, and who is now slowly dying of angina pectoris at his mountain home on Chocorua, N.H. has sent me a letter about it, which I copied for Dr. Harris, and will send you also a copy. It states the fact about Thoreau and Emerson very well; though I do not put Sir. T. B. so high as Albee would. In his last illness, Thoreau rather surprised me by saying that he thought Emerson would stand, a century or two hence, much as Brown now does; and this I have cited in the booklet.
I hear nothing of late from Connelley, - partly because I have not written to him, I suppose. I found that his John Brown has slightly stimulated the sale of mine, - the July account showed that. I hope his sells also, as it ought.
I have sent the Harvard Graduates Mag. a screed about E. A. Sophocles, to accompany Flint's (1856) caricature of him, which will be re-engraved there. I trust you are well, as we are, - and all yours.
Faithfully,
F. B. Sanborn
D. W. Wilder Hiawatha
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I hope your part of Kansas escaped the scorching which has so damaged the "wall of corn". Here we have fair crops of our diminutive farming.
I would not go to Commencement to hear Senator Hoar puff McKinley - but our class had a good dinner with Mitchell presiding.
F. B. S.