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My dear Hathaway:
New Canaan
Connecticut
11. May. 1921
I have almost no recollection
of the printing of "Death in April"
in the shape I sent you. It was
a complete surprise to me
when I found it. My impres-
sion is that it must have
been intended for distribution
by itself, irrespective of any
second or third part. But
I have no remembrance what-
ever of its having been so dis-
tributed.
The second part was published
in "The Universal Review" of London
in November 1889, with the title
"Corydon, an Elegy" , and contains
25 stanzas. It has never been
reprinted. I have a copy in
my scrap-book. I remember that
I did plan a third part, which
I never wrote. The whole thing
is painfully lacking in sim-
plicity and lucidity. Like
most of the early work it is
far too obscure - sensuosity
without sense.
Look at the enclosed!
Ever yours
Bliss Carman