Description

Description: In this two-page autograph letter signed, Florence Coates thanks Mr. Price (Warwick James Price, newspaper editor and news commentator) for his “charming” article “Chimes of Cluster” and agrees that “the Belleveau indeed gives you an opportunity that is not too readily found with the modern magazines . . . .”

She adds, “You may remember that your admirable review of my verse in The Pathfinder was prefaced by some lines entitled ‘Dream the Great Dream,’ . . .  It may rather amuse you that the chance quotation of this poem seems to have stirred up the entire West, all the leading papers having taken it up.” Signed “beg you to believe me/Cordially yours,/Florence Earle Coates”

Handwritten on two sides of a folded 5”x 6 ½” ivory sheet and dated January 29, 1912.  Item #A01934

Florence Earle Coates (1850-1921) was a prolific American poet and a women’s rights advocate. She was mentored by the English poet and  literary critic Mathew Arnold. Over 300 of her poems were published in the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner’s Magazine, The Literary Digest, Lippincott’s, The Century Magazine, and Harper’s. She was the Poet Laureate of Pennsylvania in 1915.

Condition: Has a mailing fold line. Legible and in very good condition.