Educator and poet (1859-1929) best known for the lyrics to the iconic patriotic song "America the Beautiful." Two TLSs, each one page, 5.5 x 8.5, Wellesley College letterhead, October 3 and November 26, 1923. Both to Helen Macmillan of the Wellesley Alumnae Quarterly, responding to a request for a poem. The first, in full: "I have only too many poems in mind, because they fret me buzzing about like bees in a hive; but I have almost none in manuscript just now, and so it is just now that editors are asking for them. But I do not understand that you have any immediate need, and if the right bud blossoms during the autumn, I will remember your very kind request." The second, in full: "Your request of October first has not been forgotten, but the days whiz by like arrows. Here is a sonnet that would, possibly, have some significance for alumnae who have studied Shakespeare with me." In fine condition.
