Will you kindly sign your name well up on the enclosed document, close under the print?
We already have about 120 authors in this League,1 many of the best standing & authority. It is meant to take in the whole mass of writers, of every worthy kind, & when we have got these we shall enroll the outside sympathizers, numbering, I hope, thousands. Ultimately, I believe we shall accomplish something.
Faithfully yours G P Lathrop loc.03231.002_large.jpgCorrespondent:
George Parsons Lathrop
(1851–1898) was an American poet and novelist. He was also the biographer
of his father-in-law, Nathaniel Hawthorne. For more on him, see The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable
Americans, ed. Rossiter Johnson and John Howard Brown (Boston:
Biographical Society, 1904), 360.