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Description: In this typed letter signed, Norwood thanks Warwick James Price, the Managing Editor of The Press (Philadelphia) for “the full set . . . of [his] New Testament lectures.” Valuing Price’s opinion, he writes, “I am always interested, however, in any criticism of my work. Personally I think some of my best work is in ‘The Piper and the Reed’ and ‘The Modernists’. Have you read the latter? I should like to know what you think of ‘Paul’ and ‘Giordano Bruno’. . .” Norwood was presenting the latter to the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Typed on 8 ½” x 11” ivory stationery of “Memorial Church of St. Raul, Overbrook, Philadelphia.” and dated May 14, 1920. Item #A01923

Rev. Robert Norwood (1874-1932) was a prolific Canadian-American writer of poems, narrative poems, and dramatic monologues and a Rector of the Memorial Church of St. Paul, Philadelphia, and St. Bartholomew’s Episcopilian Church, NYC (1925-32), where he came to be “one of the most renowned preachers in North America.” He was considered a “scintillating conversationalist” and “profound student of mysticism.”

Condition: Mailing fold lines. Generally in very good condition.