New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-03
NOT TOO SLEEPY TO PRAISE HIS FRIEND.


Albany, Aug. 6. ;SiS 10 o'clock p m
Nv Dear Fitch: am overwhelmed with business
and troubles tired. sleepy and rather unwelL and
have Just fniehci a long saeot Of bitter pohtleS
for Il young editorial friend Ken counties of, and
have n double days work for tomorrow: but |
can't help sna,chlng a few moments to say mat
the poem found in M ho" when came up yes
terday morning x unf ign edly magnificent. You Know
/ am not n fa',crer. and have never pronounced
YOUR earlier efforts more than pretty good, but
this has realty excited my enthusiasm. / read 1t
this evening to a good friend who dropped IN on
mo and he was in rapturrs with ii. Now don't
think | admire 1t just as he did because 1t has
good thoughts we'll expressed; know better how
poetry must be written A hundred fellows might
have acc!denty hit off something as good In gen.
eral effect without ever doing a memoraby clever
thing aftervard. 1t Is the compactness and finish
OF the poem that delight me. Every line mas a
meaning: and | know this cannot be attained lin
connection with harmony without labor and patient
thought II Is this that gives me high hopes Of
Your future efforts Depend upon 1t, that the best
euloly that could be passed on youns poet would
be This "tle composed but eight lines da!, ana
congresses the jewc's of that days rejection anu
observation into them" / hope you will continue
70 write whenever your pursuits VIII ALLOW ana nj
favor mo with the results; They can hardy DE
more kindly appreciated .and In this instance highly
apprecated elsewhere. ! have poems on hand ny
Mrs sigourney, Miss Lucy Hooper. Mrs. ). IL
Scott tall favOrites with mel, and not one that l
prize above this. Most heartily thank you for II;
need not add that the eIuslon OF your lfleni
Will be treated with all kindness II retouched by
you il viii hardly fail of bsnG successful have
half a mind To send you this weck copy OF each
Of the papers write for amore (sic) ,or rather
from love OF Whiggery and OF my young friends
who have Just engaged IN the editorial line DO
YOU see the Nergennes "NermCnter'? Ii IL edited
by headstrong young friend of mine. for whom
I am nOW writing series of articles bearing on
the election | think you would Ike the paper If
II comes In your way ] expect to see him here
tomorrow.
| am setting along by hook and b, crook in New
York. and have hopes of seeing better times BY and
by | mean to make Advancement with Park
BENJAMIN for assistance, Tor my load Is getting
heavy. for Eldridge has been laid up with a
sickness which kept him at deaths door for sew
cra days: and now. as soon rs he Is able he must
go into the country to recruit Page has also been
sick the last week though that makes little dit
ference / have the bulk OF the business TO do
anyhow. | mean to arrange with Ben for perma-
ncnt aid in the literary department.; though
don't expect be detained here only till the first
Of February. Next year | mean to make The
New-Yorker' the best weekly going. II that Is In
me.
Tomorrow I have The Journal" vice Mr. Weed,
who must be absent. my "Jehersonian TO write
for read proof. etc. and n good deal to do good
night and God bless you. Knd regards 10 your
lady your mother and all who may deem them
selves friends OF yours. most truly
HORACE GREELEY