New York. Sends some notes on Emerson and suggests that Griswold consult [Henry David] Thoreau for further information.

New York. Asks why [George Rex] Graham has failed to publish Thoreau's article on Carlyle and a notice of [Dionysius?] Lardner by Griswold. Inquires about a lost manuscript lecture of his.

New York. Asks for the manuscript of his lecture, in Griswold's possession. Recommends Emerson's Poems [Boston 1847].

New York. Suggests that Griswold write a literary column for the New York Advertiser. Asks for a brief collection of epigrams.

New York. Has already written his notice of Griswold's book [The Prose Writers of America].

Washington, D.C. Recommends the work of H. E. G. Avery, known to Greeley as Harriet E. Groussis, for The Female Poets of America.

Washington, D.C. Sends a paragraph about "Bayard's book" [Bayard Taylor's Rhymes of Travel, New York 1848?].

Washington, D.C. Criticizes The Female Poets of America - "a good collection, although your style is stiff"; especially admires the format. Disapproves of [Sarah Helen] Whitman's marriage to [Edgar Allan] Poe. Describes his struggle over the mileage question [in the House of Representatives].

Tribune Office. Cancels an engagement.

Tribune Office. Ask for complete copy for Curiosities of American Literature [in Isaac D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature, New York 1843].

Office of the Tribune. Suggestions for the title and format of Curiosities of American Literature.

N.p. [Boston?] Disapproves of the size of a colossal statue to be made by Greenough [the James Fenimore Cooper memorial?].

"While strains, to every heart that speak."

Washington, D.C. Offers $50 to help pay any debts left by [James Fenimore] Cooper. Approves of bronze for Cooper's statue, but objects to placing it in Washington, where "there is neither respect for such objects as public property nor interest in them as works of art."

New York. Entitled "An Incident of Mortality." Describes the funeral of the Duke of Orleans, 1842.

New York. Biographical sketch of Arthur Cleveland Coxe [for The Poets of America?].

New York. Wishes to include Poe in The Prose Writers of America in spite of their personal quarrel.

N.p. Saturday. Encloses a note from [Elizabeth (Lummis)] Ellet. Protests against [Francis] Bowen's permitting her to review The Female Poets of America, because of her ignorance and contentious disposition. Asks Whipple to dissuade him.

No. 7, N.Y. University. Declines to furnish Mrs. Ellet with proofs of The Female Poets of America, and questions the propriety of her reviewing the book on several grounds.

University. Demands immediate disavowel of an enclosed article from Neal's Gazett, allegedly written by Mrs. Ellet [attacking The Female Poets of America].