Dear Charles,—Keen is hypercritical. He wishes to
know if “sweet” is the author's favorite epithet, and if the
author thinks it renders his verses “luscious?” If the
sonnets please him, let him change the words for some synonym.
As he gets the things for nothing, let him tinker them
to his purpose.
You wish, however, articles more decidedly religious, as
your magazine is intended for the religious world. I have
no leisure just now to do any thing new in that way, so I
send you three that have already appeared in religious journals.
