Letter from George Parsons Lathrop to Thomas Stephens Collier

Courier Office Boston Sept. 12/78 Dear Mr. Collier, I found your story, though graphic, was not quite strong enough in the dramatic element for my purpose. Your sonnets, however, are noble; especially "Sleeping," which I wish to head: "Yes, Cross the Snow-White Hands." I shall be very glad to

use it in The Mask of Poets. It is on a high plane of feeling, & touchingly & beautifully expressed: a thousand times better than the Coeur de Lion, being real & newborn poetry. I wish you would allow me to insert Annihilation in the Courier. I will give it a place on the 1st. page, at the head of the column. Go on writing like this & you will win a hearing worth having even tho' it include few listeners. Truly yours, G P Lathrop