BIB_ID
157448
Accession number
MA 3623
Creator
Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895.
Display Date
[year of writing unknown] November 10.
Credit line
Purchased, 1980.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 20.1 x 12.7 cm
Notes
The letter is written on stationery with the letterhead "24 Hill Street, Edinburgh", an address at which Blackie is known to have lived between 1860 and 1881.
Provenance
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund from the dealer Howard S. Mott, Catalog 202, Lot 27.
Summary
Apologizing for not responding earlier; telling his correspondent that his first book is "full of beautiful things: and what is better than beautiful things, wisdom and piety: a central element, I have long felt, of all true poetry"; giving him suggestions about where to publish; advising him to talk less about himself in his work; passing on other thoughts about what enables a "true poet to make an impression on the public ear & heart."
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