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Editorial Rooms Scribner's Monthly 743 & 745 Broadway, New York, April 26 1876
My dear Poet,
Many thanks for your kind letter. I hope the dross will yield itself to your pursuit.
If dross were a muse she would not refuse.
When I tell Charles De Kay what you have said about his [illegible] [if?] [illegible] [illegible] he will be delighted as I and his sister over
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Glad you like the sonnet. I like the last three lines, at least.
I send you another May number. Was whimsical changed to musical in the one you sent to Swinburne?
The notice of "Joseph" is also by C. A. deK. It will appear in the next number. C. is a modest chap & don't half appreciate his own force. If you should see his poetry - you would forget mine.
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Helena has not forgotten her promise, She wd long to decorate your cover - but her experiments were not successful & she thought the feather would look better.
We'll run in on Mrs. S. & yourself sometime when the baby will let Mrs. G.
Have you Marston's poems? I am anxious to see them. He is the only fellow in England (except Mach.) to whom I sent my book. I've only read a few of things in the paper - Wh have had two letters from him and he has written a brief article for us about Oliver Madox Brown.
Faithfully
R.W. Gilder
