To Charles Warren Stoddard [original typescript of poem], with accompanying typescripts

Private, 1924. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Original typed manuscript of a poem by George Sterling, signed by him at the bottom, entitled "To Charles Warren Stoddard". Date: 1909 or later, since the poem laments Stoddard's death, and Stoddard died on April 23rd, 1909, at Monterey, California. Stoddard, born in Rochester, NY, became a San Franciscan in his teens. He became a widely admired writer and poet, himself, in the late nineteenth century. George Sterling was a protege of both Jack London and Ambrose Bierce; Bierce became so enamored of Sterling's poem [this one] that he included it in his own collected works. 5 four-line stanzas. Laid in is a typed "Note to 'The Lake of Innisfree' "; that note, also by Sterling, is essentially an essay in which Sterling tells of a private publication by John Henry Nash of that William Butler Yeats' poem, and manifests Sterling's admiration of both Yeats and Nash. Also included is the typed verse 'The Lake of Innisfree' itself, presumably also typed by Sterling. See scans. Sterling's poem on Stoddard is an original, and is an extremely beautiful and moving lament on Stoddard's death. Fair enough, since Stoddard himself had earlier written a poem, "To George Sterling", which moved Clark Ashton Smith sufficiently that he included it in his remembrance, "An Appreciation of George Sterling". Serious mutual admiration all around - and I'm going to need a roster card. Condition: a few spots on the original poem, age toning and light wear-wrinkles on all three documents. Overall, Very Good. Provenance provided to purchaser. See scanned images. LG11