To ED
From Thomas Niles

late April 1882

Miss Dickinson

The very latest London Athenaeum, Apl 1^st., says "it is rumored that M^r Cross has abandoned the idea of writing a biography of George Eliot"

We gather from Mr Lowell's publishers that they have not yet rec^d the M.S.S. of Lowell's Hawthorne and do not know when the work will be ready

Yrs tru[ly]

[T. Niles]