
I am engaged in compiling a hymn-book for use in the Labour Church movement (see circulars enclosed) & I wish to include a few selections
from your poems in the work. As I do not know what copyright you may have in England, & as, in any case, I would rather not pirate, I
beg to ask your kind permission to publish in our hymn-book, two or three short selections from your verses. I
may add that we do not expect to make a profit on the book, but if we should do so it will go to the funds of the Labour Church
I enclose stamped envelope for reply
Yours Truly J. E. HoldsworthP.S. Do you know what copyright J. Russell Lowell has in England?—or can you give me the address of his representatives or executors?







