Charles Fenno Hoffman, New York, autograph letter signed to R. W. Griswold, 19 February 1845
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Urges early publication of his poems [the fourth edition of The Vigil of Faith, New York 1845]. Refers Griswold to an article of his on [Theodore Sedgwick] Fay. Admires Vivian's Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, and Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century [New York 1845]. Mentions lectures by a "live Yankee," [Henry Norman] Hudson, and the controversy over Bishop [Benjamin T.] Onderdonk.