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sheets before to-day. The attempt has cost me many a heavy heart. . . . I have done a quaint action—I have sent three of my poems to the Atlantic Monthly, and a fourth, heaven of heavens! to Stephen!^[1] I am not mad; only a poet."

F. V. De G. S.

1. Leslie Stephen, at that time editing an English magazine.