
I have just read through again more carefully "Good-Bye my F." I think "The Pallid Wreath," "Old Age's Ship & Crafty D." To the Sunset Breeze and the last "Good-B my F" (did you notice that you had two of the same title?) are alone enough to justify the book & are as great as anything you have done in many years. The pantheistic necromancy in the last lines of the last poem come with a freshness of surprise that is very pleasant to a mystical mind.
I hope the hot weather is not taking you down.
Rec'd Traubel's wedding card from London!
Give him my congratulations! Howells
writes me that Garland's book
of stories pleases him immensely
it is so fresh & aggressive. Garland & I had a
grand day with the "Listener" & Bradford Torrey the
bird lover at—Newton Lower Falls (Wellesley) on
Decoration Day. Stayed to Brown bread & Beans supper
(good!) got up by hearty Western wife of Chamberlin (Listener).
Saw humming bird's nest on apple bough (occupied, live &
exquisite).
One of our journalists just dead a fine fellow. (I rec'd your yellow letter of May 27th thanks)
W. S. Kennedy