Letter from Richard Henry Stoddard to Rossiter Johnson

329 East Fifteenth Street Nov 27 1900 My dear Mr Johnson: It will give me a great pleasure to meet my fellows of this author's {blue ?] ? of December 5th [over ?] the completion of Mr Stedman's American Anthology, and only ill health or some other [ ? ] calamity will prevent my attendance which I regard as a duty, [in ?] of my long acquaintance with, and regard for Mr. Stedman, as well as the pleasure I am sure it will, I have known him nearly fifty years. Yours truly R.H. Stoddard