Rejoices that one of his great favorites, "Berris Yare" is going to make its first public appearance in The Independent, edited by Miss Susan Hays Ward, "the same kind hand that gave [his poem] 'Marjorie Darrow' her entre with good society" [published September 1, 1892] and that he has a new poem "just born this afternoon" called "Arnold, Master of the Scud" weighing ninety-two lines and very sturdy. He hopes "to send him to The Youth's Companion to begin his education." He also mentions that Richard [Hovey?] is still in New York working as the Secretary to the Jury of the Theatre of Arts and Letters.

Mentions the possible summer plans of his friend, Mrs. [Mary Perry] King, also of New Canaan, so that Gale can make her own plans to come East, attempts to explain Unitrinianism, saying "I have been a student of philosophy all my life; not a scholar, of course, but an eager learner. I had to have some faith to live by, some scheme of things which would keep the universe from looking absurd. Unitrinianism has served me well for twenty years." Carman goes on to describe some of the basic tenets and beliefs of Unitrinianism, especially the ideas of Mrs. King's system. He also credits the difficulty of most educators to see the value of harmonizing the whole being to the fact that most of them are men, "And men are much less in need of harmonizing than women. In the first place they are not so delicately constructed, and not so easily distraught and injured by life. Women are often unhinged by sorrow, or unhappiness, or misfortune, that would have no such radical and lasting effect on men at all."

Shares the feeling of delight expressed by "the Star of Unitrinianism" [Mrs. Mary Perry King] when she receives one of Gale's letters, gives her permission to reprint his poem "Marigolds" and remarks that he has now written eight pages to her without a word of philosophy,

Discusses the fallacies of the Christian Science movement, particularly in the case of the student Miss Flood who wished to study Unitrinianism under [Mrs. Mary Perry King?] but became discouraged,

Wonders at the enthusiasm and energy of women, especially Mrs. King and Mrs. [Mesher?], his landlady while he lived in Cambridge and attended Harvard, who had come to visit them in New Canaan, now nearly eighty years old but still "a walking wonder of alert interest and unflagging spirit."

Discusses his difficulties in writing his poem, "Phi Beta Kappa Poem" blaming them on "a cantankerous Muse," mentions "the Star’s [Mary Perry King?]" involvement in a Ballet Dance Festival, remarks upon their wonderful spring, "passing through all the stages from Bluebirds to Bobolinks, from Bloodroot to White Iris," and his upcoming work in the city from the middle of June until August "while the real Editor’s sporting in Europe."

Wishes her a happy and healthy Christmas, informs her that he must go directly to New York to discuss his four articles with his magazine people instead of coming by Chicago as he had planned, and asks her to have her brother keep him posted as he still hopes to arrange for the dances in [Chicago?] in January.

Sends her one of the first copies of April Airs, "You must take it as something new and fresh as the spring. It's a pretty volume. There is nothing great in it. But the lines, if they are not as exuberant as of old, are at least not mournful." He continues "The lines 'In Early May' were written on Richard's [Hovey] birthday three years ago, out in the orchard, and I remember I was thinking at the time how much you would love the blossomy time."

Apologizes for not promptly signing and returning her copies of The Vagabondia, explains that he has "been up to my ears in a sea of literary remains! Going over mss. and letters and pamphlets and a few [books?], a thousand years old, and trying to put order in the mess," plans to sell letters from departed celebrities to autograph hunters, unless they are too personal, has had a visit from Odell Shepard, a poet and assistant professor of Harvard, who was commissioned to do a biographical study of Carman's literary work, reports that Gladys Baldwin is still renown for her good works at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, and shares his misgivings about the Pedagogue in Washington [Woodrow Wilson?], "But he is a calamity! The most fickle figure in American history, and the greatest one-man power for evil ever [?] in the nation. No one has yet imagined the disintegrating influence on this generation of his moral cowardice and callous egotism."

Has a reading coming up at her own university on March 7, thanks her for her offer of hospitality during his stay, has also had an offer to speak to the Elizabeth Kirkland Foundation from Mrs. V.K. Spicer [Anne Higginson Spicer of Kenilworth], and mentions a student who wants to write about Richard [Hovey] whose papers may be at Dartmouth.

Writes concerning his return from the Catskills in mid-September, the health of Mary Perry King and her success in finding a music publisher for her rhythms, who will publish a small preliminary prose brochure any day, her happiness with her young companion and nurse, his plans to go to Northern Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan after the first of the year doing extension work and reading his own work for the universities of various cities, which was a fine success last winter at places like McGill, Toronto, Queens, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Vancouver, etc., his plans to continue on to the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Arizona at Tucson, and suggests she read Vachel Lindsay in The Saturday Evening Post for this week.

including three printed copies of his poems, "Bloodroot," "For a Memorial to John Keats," and "Quaker Ladies"; a typed list of book titles by or concerning Carman; Electrostatic copy of a poem sent to Bliss Carman by Agnes S. Cook, April 15, 1894, "Success is in the Silences, Tho’ fame be in the song"; and an electrostatic copy of an incomplete undated letter from Bliss Carman describing the Muse as a suffragette