Your "Old Poets"1 in the November Number of the North American Review,2 I read with much pleasure & interest, particularly the last expanded thought from the paragraph "grand as to–day's accumulation find of poetry is, &c" to the loc.02374.002_large.jpg end of the sketch.
It seems to me that the poetry of the future should include the ideas of the brotherhood of man—(your solidarity, is it not?)—& the fatherhood of God & charity is (unselfishness) (love) to all on Faith & happiness (perfect) in re-union with our fellow-man in loc.02374.003_large.jpg Heaven—our Father's house for all time, (Eternity). With the central idea running through it all of the redemption of men (humanity) by this Elder Brother, the Christ.
Pardon my sending you my thoughts, which, judging from the tone of your article loc.02374.004_large.jpg I feel sure you will understand
I beg leave to sign myself,
One of your admirers William F. Jackson Newark, N.J. November Ninth.Why should not the poem that is to last be written by an American? Do not all nations meet & blend in America?
W.F.J.
Correspondent:
Little is known of William
F. Jackson, except that he joined the South Park Presbyterian Church of Newark,
New Jersey, in September 1880 (where he served as maintenance supervisor); in
1890, he became a charter member of the Essex Troop of Light Cavalry (eventually
absorbed into the New Jersey National Guard).