SVB -- Wm Sycamore

"As for others [poems], I think "King David"
and the "Ballad of William Sycamore" are the best
things I have done for some time .... "

SVB to B.Stevenson, [Sept '24]

N.B.: Stevenson included both of them [in The Home
Book of Modern Verse]

SVB -- Ballad of Wm Sycamore

... My friendship for Stephen Benet goes back to my college days -- 1926-1929 when I read his early poems. The first one, Ballad of William Sycamore. I was fond of this poem. Then, John Brown's Body. Then, his short stories and among thse, The Devil and Daniel Webster. I knew this writer friend and he was my friend before I ever met him.

Jesse Staurt to CAF, 4/4/57

Ballad of William Sycamore

check locally on who Edmond Byrne Hackett was, and his
The Brick Row Book Shop, Incorporated, of New York, New Haven, Princeton.

query : Mrs. Head

Whitlock ; Nangle ; Sam Hemingway