
I send you
the estimate of you I
had room to publish
last year in one of
our most important Reviews,
La Nouvelle Revue. Unfortunately
the essay is not complete;
I was obliged to shorten
it, as it is often the
case, when one writes
for periodicals, and I would
not myself encroach on
the space devoted to the
work of other contributors;
but my second series
of English and American
poets will soon appear
in book form, and there
will I print all I
wrote first about you, to
the full extent.
Did you
hear a lady friend of
mine, Madame Blanc-Bentzon
reviewed "Leaves of Grass"
in the Revue des Deux-Mondes?
She did it ten or fifteen
years ago, I don't remember
exactly the date, and the
same book was also reviewed
four years ago by Madame
Léo Quesnel, in the Revue
Politique et Litteraire. Lately, a
young writer, M. Francis Vielé–Griffin translated
Faces in a less known
periodical, La Revue indépendante;
and I have been told
another young poet, who
died five years ago, M.
Jules Laforgue, translated,
I know not where, A Woman
Waits for me. I cannot
procure easily the essays
or translations; but for
that, I should have
forwarded them to you.


