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Mrs. William Penhallow Henderson Santa Fe. New Mexico January 28, 1915,

Dear Edith:

I was delighted to get your book, and I have enjoyed it. A poet always gains by being alone between book covers, and I now feel this I unclear and appreciate your work more than from reading the poems singly or even in groups. I am always interested to [?wonder?]] which poems of mine are liked by the reader--and it may interest you to know the poems that I have marked? in the index of my book--though one feels, too, a little dubious about making or stating selections - as if one were to select from a grandparent's offspring. and perhaps omit the [?] favorite: -