Writings by Susan Dickinson: Correspondence with Bishop Huntington

	Syracuse- May 22. '99 My dear Susan - Some time before y'r thoughtful rememberance put me up among y'r own + Martha's near + tried friends who were privileged to share early the rare gift of her genius, I had sent to New York for one copy of the book, + had seen some of the contents. Rec'g another from y'r mother-heart + mother-pride, I
	have read all the pages, + so have we all. Not many women c'd have written them, of any repute. By their fertility of thought, by the form + skill of what we call imagina- tion, by inventiveness + power + ingenuity + surprises + pictorial vividness of our English tongue, they must[?] take a striking place, it seems to me, in the creative literary products of the modern mind. I wish I could, in some way, at whatever pains, promote the knowledge + expand the circulation of the work. Its success, however, will take care of itself. That the method + the style,
	the form + dress, the poetic "school" + [?], sh'd be thus essentially + distinctly modern, sh'd be ^so for me, in my eightieth year + last month, must, I am sure, be pardonable. There are those who w'd call it pitiable. If I cannot, by any effort, understand very much of what is given by the language to the world, it is doubtless my defect of capacity. I belong, + must continue, in another intellectual generation, + must there do the best I can. A disturbing tiff with the conductor
Papers of Susan Dickinson, Box II, Series A, Brown University Libraries	of the Churchman[?] lately will, I fear, prevent my gift[?] ^{a place} in his columns. We are daily looking forward to the valley + hills, Amherst - + Hadley, Holyoke + Tobey + Sugar Loaf, for the benediction they are sure to give, little as we do for them. Faithfully + affectionately, F.D. Huntington-


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