... wrote to me before the age of the typewriter, more profusely than men now write, and the very fact that we lived far apart made him franker in utterance. The following letter came from Keep Rock, New Castle, New Hampshire , September 30, 1887:-- You are a noble kinsman after all, of the sort from whom one is very glad to get good words, and I have taken your perception of a bit of verse as infallible, ever since...