
I have your letter of 4th & 5th and post card of 6th You will know before this that I got the papers (with
account of banquet) but if you send another set (not to
hand yet) it is no harm. Yes, of course I have the pocket book L. of G. and am never tired of handling it and admiring
it—it is the lovelist little book I ever saw and now that the last corrections
are made it is I suppose abt perfect as a piece of printing. I like the paper much,
it has a good dead surface and tho' the ink shows through a little it does not
obscure the reading any to hurt. Please do not forget to send me a copy (no doubt
you have some printed as usual, or better yet if it would not be too much trouble,
to write it out for me—I should value an M.S. copy to no end) of "Voice from
Death" What a fearful catastrophe! America has never
seen the like and I trust never will again—What a subject for an interlude in
a big, great
poem—or for a chapter in some great prose work! But it seems a sin to think of
it that way—it is too awful—the hundreds of little children and women
overwhelmed and suffocated in a moment. The great ship wrecks sink into
insignificance before the horror of it. I have written Harned to
put me down for $5. worth of the banquet book or pamphlet—guess it will be
quite an interesting contribution to the great heap of W.W. literature. Nothing new from W.J. Gurd and the
meter—I guess all is going well but it goes mighty slow. All well here. Rain,
rain, rain—has rained now for near a month and still keeps on—raining
quite hard the present moment (11.40 a.m.).

