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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