You show a great deal of talent in your poems. I find them very interesting and sweet.
THOMAS NELSON PAGE.
Mr. James E. McGirt, Philadelphia,
My Dear Sir:—I have given some spare hours to the reading of your poems, which you were kind enough to furnish me in volume and manuscript. It is always gratifying to me to find one of your race aim to advance or excel in literary efforts. I was specially pleased with the merits of your poems, which should certainly command a large circle of readers, not only among your own people, but among all lovers of genuine poetic effort.
Yours truly,
(Col.) A. K. McCLURE.
