ENPages That Need Review
Letter from Mary Moody Emerson to Ralph Waldo Emerson or Charles Chauncey Emerson
p.
prepared for every extravagance in the present a [list] of reformation, said she should no more think of a promise [made] in a heat than if she had said she would kill one. I do not report the promise only [out] being sooner - and like the intercourse of friendship if you choose on the present footing. At this view she was satisfied and I with the condition that you will never trifle with any [premise-promise]. But as to doing with out you, my dear W, myself re mains as poor Media said, And when the dreams of ambi tion of a moral or mental nature are dissolved before forming present connections - these may be tempered to the shadows which pass over a ruin when the owners stands alone and says he is still rich tho the
p.
[whereabouts] is game. I have striven to get some fuel from this vague transcendentalism to add to any other [decaying fire] wished that was the hallucinattions of an A Scott could [unsuffuse] [thine] spirit that dwells on the confines of matter & spirit to be a glow worm in my twilight -
But better to keep on perhaps in the cold paths of [overuse] & have those [worst] things w/h belong to their Author. To submit to these contradictions in our nature w/h failed us to rest in an Absolute Aent or in the finite - w/h present so muc discipline - united is the fort and the mystic question as will as will as practical.[?reworks]. Love to you wife & sister. Let me know what Sr [Peham] said and how CC does & you will add another four to your afft Aunt. MME
Letter from Rachel Watson Gilder to Edmund Clarence Stedman
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
p.
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
p.
and - the last part I am delighted with, not only in itself, but for its purpose of 'calling [maden] to a [?trials trust (onlooked almost) and a great essayist. It takes a [pret] to [tinek] a [pret!] and you will lead the way of thousands to our greatest American, Swinburne, even, might w/h surmised by your unanswerable
p.
presentation of the subject. But that makes no difference. Now I want that poem for the [Midwinter newsl? - do you see what is doing with the Century. How long since the Attarbie has published such a number as the [nonwith] Century? I had your name & your printed work at the Midwinter No. Won't you [lack] on a a fellow! By the way - I handed that part of your note about the Church to St. Eggleton - [the must [.cork] not for [Osen] in the bylaws. [Byeston] bought him to the Benting club & might to the Authors: so might Miller or Fawcett. Must [ask] some are grant persmission - & might not [suppose] [characters] like Waldo be guarded against. If I am wh forced to meet such a swindler - no church forgive. Faithfully R.W.G.
p.
I can't help thinking that if I had had more of it & more feeling that the world cared for what I printed, I would have -- before I was sixty -- come into a freer & more assured [wholesome?] - This past year I have written more than in any year since the New Day In other words I [?] havw been & was fine more of an artist.
