I send enclosed Messrs Harper & Brothers'1 check for One Hundred Dollars ($100–), in payment for your poem, "Song of the Redwood Tree."2
The Messrs Harpers do not object to the subsequent publication of the poem in book–form, uva.00359.002_large.jpg uva.00359.003_large.jpg provided such publication is not made until six months after the appearance of the poem in their Magazine.
With thanks for your poem (of which I will send you proof in a few days), & the best wishes for your welfare, I am
Sincerely yours H.M. Alden, Ed. Harper's Mag.PS. The poem will appear in an early number.
HMA uva.00359.004_large.jpgCorrespondent:
Henry Mills Alden (1836–1919)
was managing editor of Harper's Weekly from 1863 to 1869
and editor of Harper's New Monthly Magazine from 1869
until his death.