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Facsimile and reproduction, both noted as being from original manuscripts, both different. 2 pages. 2 items

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Manuscript, signed with revisions, 2 pages. 1 item

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Chicago. Bixby is right in letting Harper have the Shelley books since the bibliophiles can spend more money on reproductions and will thus produce a handsomer, though larger, book. Perhaps Bixby would like to consider publishing his Byron letters and manuscripts [society of] with Dofobs. Typed letter, signed. 1 item

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The University of Chicago. Glad that Bixby received the manuscript safely and that Bixby permitted him to call the manuscript what he had suggested. He will send copies of the monograph. He encloses a translation, probably from Hippolytus of Thebes, of chronological text. Some parts of it are corrupt, but Hippolytus means to refer to the Seven great councils. Typed letter, signed. 1 item

Description New York. Thanks him for returning agreements between International and Great Northern and American Car and Foundry Company. The car matter is giving him great trouble; the Texas officials have taken "a perfectly idiotic position." Their ideas would make it very difficult for railroads to get cars, and the public would demand a reversal of any decision in their favor. He would not want to be in a suit over the forfeiture of the I and G.N. charter. Hopes to see Bixby in New York. Typed...

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City Point. Inform Sheridan that two divisions of infantry with cavalry and twenty pieces of artillery have gone to Early. Sheridan must now act defensively until movement forces them to detach to send this way. Early's force of only 40,000 men is still too large for Sheridan to attack. Send Sheridan remaining Brigade 18th Corps. Grant has ordered to Washington all the One hundred days men. Marginal notes, "Cipher" and "copied." Autograph letter, signed. 1 item

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City Point. Petersburg paper of the 9th says that Generals Forrest and Tayler have arrived in Mobile. It is to be hoped that the enemy have had to call in Forrest's men. Autograph letter, signed, copied. 1 item

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The White House, Washington. Thanks Bixby for the President for sending booklet. Typed letter, signed. 1 item

Description 21 Charles Street, Boston. Thanks addressee for his poem which has a lyric swing and feeling missing in other of his work. Not even a disembodied spirit who knew about earth could take the interest in it that one who lives in it and eats pie and cheese and breathes oxygen-mixture might take. The embodied know too much, seeing ends in their causes and writing their histories backwards from the finis. We must have poetry for daily consumption. We wait for you. Autograph letter, signed. 1...

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East Aurora, New York. Thanks Bixby for his check and letter. Brother Prynne is a life member, paid for 99 years. Roycrofters (printers) is sending Bixby a catalog. Autograph letter, signed. 1 item