Letter from Bliss Carman to R. H. Hathaway, April 1, 1921 : a machine-readable transcription.


Author: Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929

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Letter from Bliss Carman to R. H. Hathaway, April 1, 1921.



Author: Bliss Carman

4 p.



The Rufus Hathaway collection of Canadian literature. Vertical file. Folder 463.


Document imprinted with property stamp to left of author's signature: LIBRARY, University of New Bru[n]swick.
Recipient: Rufus Hawtin Hathaway, 1869-1933.

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1921-04-01
English non-fiction; prose LCSH 24-bit colour; 300-400 dpi.
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Letter from Bliss Carman to R. H. Hathaway, April 1, 1921

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New Canaan, Connecticut

1.April.1921

My dear
Hathaway:

The "Tomahawk" has just
arrived and given me a
pleasant jolt. But indeed
I hardly needed it to put
me in mind of your good
self.

When I had to take
my sad departure from

Toronto , it was much mitigatedby having you at
the Station.
Ottawa and

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Montreal were delightful,
and
New Brunswick was not
as bad as I feared. I only
dreaded it after so many
years absence, but people
were heavenly. I got back here
a week before Easter and have
been dipping into
New
York again, seeing
Kennerley ,
etc., and am attempting now
to write a few letters for
decency sake to the many
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new friends in
Ontario. It is
a joyous task, but I am a
vile letter -writer, or rather
letter - neglecter, as you know.
I shall not forget the "items"
you need when I get to them.

The pewter ink-pot such
as you use in the
A. & L. Club,
and which I ran down in
Toronto
finally, [ made a brave show ]
and is big enough to lend confidence to the greediest pen.
I feel I shall never exhaust

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it.

The first item in
Sherman's
check list (a Broadsheet) was
recently bought by a dealer in

New York for five dollars and
sold again at private sale for
fifty! Good Lord! It's monstrous
folly!

A thousand thanks again
for all your kindness recent
and of old.


Yours as ever
Bliss Carman