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Letter of Henry Mills Alden, New York, to Rossiter Johnson
Alden states the rates and standards of acceptance for articles in Harper's magazine.
Letter, 1875 April 29, New York [N.Y.], to [Henry Mills] Alden, [New York, N.Y.].
Richardson proposes to write an article concerning Williamsburg [for Harper's Magazine].
ALS
Exclaims his astonishment that an extremely humorous piece had been rejected by Alden's magazine, Harper's Weekly, because Clemens had not authored it. "Gold is gold, & varying the mint-mark can't alter its value."
Constance Fenimore Woolson
"Biography at its best aims at resurrection. Anne Boyd Rioux has brought the novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson back to life for us. Hurrah!" —Robert D. Richardson, author of the Bancroft Prize–winning William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894), who contributed to Henry James’s conception of his heroine Isabelle Archer in The Portrait of a Lady, was one of the most accomplished American writers of the nineteenth century. Yet today the best-known (and most-misunderstood) facts of her life are her relationship with James and her probable suicide in Venice. This first full-length biography of Woolson provides a fuller picture that reaff...
Constance Fenimore Woolson
As these pieces demonstrate, Woolson offered keen observations on the issues she cared most deeply about, namely the cultural and political transformation of the United States in the wake of the Civil War, the status of women writers and artists in the nineteenth century, and the growing implications of nationalism and imperialism." "This collection features selections from each of the three distinct periods of Woolson's career and includes a chronology of her life and travels. Focusing primarily on Woolson's short stories, editors Victoria Brehm and Sharon L. Dean also include a representative letter, poem, and travel sketch for each section."--BOOK JACKET.
Letter
ALS. Thanks Alden for sending him a copy of Alden's book, God in his world. Pyle addresses philosophical issues raised by his reading of the book. Also discusses the ideas of Swedenborg: "I have no desire to prosoletize [sic] but I know that a deeply rational mind like your own would find there a Divine spirit of Truth."
Mirror in the Shrine
Based on the travels of Griffis, Morse, and Hearn in the late 1800s, these stories evoke the immediacy of daily experience in Meiji, Japan, a nation still feudal in many of its habits yet captivating to Westerners for its gentleness, beauty, and pure charm. Illustrated.
