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Article: Three new Robert Frost letters, an inscription, and an unrecorded emendation.
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- Papers on Language & Literature
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- January 1, 1993
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Among the books and literary manuscripts in the Koopman Collection at Brown University - a collection put together by Philip D. Sherman of Oberlin College - are three letters from Robert Frost to Sherman, along with an inscribed copy of Frost's third volume of poems, Mountain Interval, published by Henry Holt in 1916.
All three letters - hitherto unpublished - date from 1916.(1) The first one replies to a letter from Sherman.
Franconia N.H. August 26 1916
Dear Prof Sherman:
Have I or have I not answered the question of your letter of a month ago? I should have said that I had; but here is your letter in my file of letters still undealt ...