Beverly Farms, Mass Sept. 81th 1894  My dear Sir  I do not read all the    poems    sent me, - if I had done so, I should never have reached three score and twenty with five added.  But I have read your    A Sabbath day in June    and read it with much pleasure. It is without affectation, simple, genuine and pleasing. It brings back the old    Sabbath    stillness. There is a poem by Alexander Hume a Scotch poet which you very probably never saw, but of which yours reminds me, not by any servile imitation or any appearance 
        of borrowing, but which would delight you. You may find it in Palgrave   s    Golden Treasury    or some such collection. It is worth looking for, and has the same realistic simplicity which I like in your June Sabbath.    Believe me  Very Truly Yours  Oliver Wendall Holmes