From: LouisFors@aol.com
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:33:19 EST
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Subject: Helen Hunt Jackson tells ED to publish
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Some weeks ago I asked Marcy if the complete letters were posted on the Web.
Not that she knew of was the reply.  Then she suggested that when I got the
complete set of letters, I would have great fun with those between Helen Hunt
Jackson and ED.  My letters are theoretically on the way, but, meanwhile, I've
come across a letter from Jackson to ED in another book.  In 1876 Jackson, the
author of Ramona, and an activist for American Indian rights, wrote ED from
Jackson's home in Colorado Springs.  The message, either an excerpt or in full
(no information is given about that):

     I have a little manuscript volume with a few of your
     verses in it--and I read them very often--You are a great
     poet--and it is wrong to the day you live in, that you
     will not sing aloud.  When you are what men call dead,
     you will be sorry you were so stingy.

I like it, complete with dashes and phrases that echo ED's style.
I wonder if other people said PUBLISH as flat out as Jackson did?
I await my complete letters to find out.  

Louis Forsdale