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Papers of John Townsend Trowbridge, Accession #6346-p, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was purchased on 1990 December 13.
The collection contains manuscripts, 1913 and n.d., of the poems "At sea" and "The lover's problem."
With these are letters, 1886, 1898, and 1904, declining to attend a proofreaders' association meeting, noting that he has never found alcohol or tobacco of value as stimulants, promising to send some work to justify his inclusion in a prospectus and inquiring into payments.
Correspondents are Mary L. Allan, William J. [Dornuff?] and John Eliot [Bourn?]
[Promises to send him some work for his Thanksgiving project and something else for use in his Prospectus for the coming year and asks what his paper can afford to pay for prose articles by experienced writers like himself]
[Expresses his opinion as to the usefulness of alcohol and tobacco, "I have never found alcohol or tobacco of the slightest value as stimulants to intellectual activity."]
[Declines an invitation to attend a meeting of an association of proofreaders while remarking humorously on the close relationship between an author and the corrector of his proofs]