P.S.--In your studies of poetry have you dipped into Stedman's new
"American Anthology"? It is the most notable collection of American
verse that has been made--on the whole, a book worth having. In saying
so I rather pride myself on my magnanimity; for of course I don't
think he has done as well by me as he might have done. That, I
suppose, is what every one thinks who happens to be alive to think it.
So I try to be in the fashion.