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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
essed exceedingly to find that among E. D.'s countless letters there are poems as good as any we printed--one on the Blue Jay, one on the Humming Bird, etc. This shows we must have another volume by and by, and must include prose from her letters, often quite as marvellous as her poetry. Howells is doing missionary work in private, and that lovely child Mildred selected as her chief favorite today, in talking with me, your favorite about the two who died and talked between the tombs. February 9, 1891 Dear Mrs. Todd: . . . One thing strikes me very much in the book notices. No two critics quote the same poems. Each finds something different. That is a much surer guarantee of permanent interest than where all fasten on one or two poems. Lay this laurel on the one Too intrinsic for renown. Laurel Veil your deathless tree, Him you chasten, that is He! She wrote it after re-reading my Decoration. It is the condensed essence of that and so far finer. To Horace E. Scudd