I am engaged in compiling a hymn-book for use in the Labour Church movement (see circulars enclosed2) & I wish to include a few selections from your poems in the work. As I do not know what copyright you may have in England, & as, in any case, I would rather not pirate, I beg to ask your kind permission to publish in our hymn-book, two or three short selections from your verses. I loc.02263.002_large.jpg may add that we do not expect to make a profit on the book, but if we should do so it will go to the funds of the Labour Church
I enclose stamped envelope for reply
Yours Truly J. E. HoldsworthP.S. Do you know what copyright J. Russell Lowell3 has in England?—or can you give me the address of his representatives or executors?
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J. E. Holdsworth may be the
James Edward Holdsworth (ca. 1870–1936) who lived in Halifax, Yorkshire,
Enagland, and was employed as a "Designer." Holdsworth was also affiliated with
the Labour Church, an organization whose socialist politics and working-class
ideals were often informed by Whitman's work.