p.

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