026-0217
026-0217
FROM George Sterling
TO Clark Ashton Smith
23-Mar-1920

Abstract

Sterling apologizes for the delay, as he has been hospitalized with an injury to a testicle and his mother died; on "The Ghoul and the Seraph," suggesting Smith try it on The Ladies Home Journal; interest in "The Hashish-Eater"; Sterling elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and withdrew (with mention of Robert Underwood Johnson, Robert W. Chambers, Will Payne, Edward W. Townsend, Edwin Lefevre, and Chester Bailey Fernald); H. L. Mencken to comes to San Francisco to cover the Democratic convention; Sterling written a poem, and writing another one ("Rosamund" inspired by The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with reference to Swinburne). Enclosed: unidentified poem.

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Preceded By 023-0042 Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith Followed by 023-0043
Preceded By 023-0042 Shadow of the Unattained Followed By 023-0043
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