I enclose formal invitation of the Signet Society,—a senior literary society. Prof. Wm James2 would like you to be his guest if you can see your way to accept the Signet invitation. The society of course pays your expenses to and from Cambridge.
You may be pleased to know that Mr. Ernest Rhys3 is to
lecture to Harvard students next loc.03769.009_large.jpg Tuesday evening on the "New
Poetry."
I wish to take this opportunity of expressing the personal satisfaction and pleasure
not to say inspiration which your poetry have been to me during the last three
years. I sent you some time ago a little article4 on your poetry which I published in
the Harvard Monthly. I trust you received it safely. I have to apologize for a
slight inaccuracy which crept into my article. It loc.03769.008_large.jpg may not be uninteresting to you to
know that I am making a special study of your poetry under the guidance of one of
the English instructors here.
With thanks for the brave strong words you have spoken and assurances of a deep personal interest in you and your work
I remain Most truly yours Charles T. Sempers.The Signet Society of Harvard College has authorized me to extend to you an invitation to make an address under its auspices in Sanders Theatre.
Awaiting your reply I remain,
Very truly yours, Charles T. Sempers Walt Whitman Camden N.J.Correspondent:
Charles T. Sempers was a Harvard
student and later became a Unitarian minister in Boston.