Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Edmund Stedman, 1883 Dec. 24.

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Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Edmund Stedman, 1883 Dec. 24.

Regarding his poem "on the cast of Lincoln's hand," published in "The independent," that he finds to be very good, "free from these rhyming and rhetorical tricks which the versifying confectioners are working their spun sugar artifices in ..."

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