Columbia University,
New York, May 25th.
Miss Fiona Macleod,
My dear Madam,
Your work has so grown into my life that I venture to ask you to permit my placing your name on some music of mine. Your poems have been an inspiration to me and I trust you will accept a dedication of music that is yours already by right of suggestion. By this I do not mean that my music in any way echoes your words but that your words have been a most powerful incentive to me in my music and I crave your sympathy for it.
Sincerely yours,
Edward MacDowell.
At the end of 1904 F. M. wrote to Mr. Lawrence Gilman, the American Musical Critic:
22 Ormidale Terrace,
Murrayfield, 31st Dec.
Dear Mr. Gilman,