Richard Henry Stoddard

"[S]he was a poetical writer of no mean gifts, and her insight, her encouragement, and her felicitous comradeship in his work as a writer became constituent elements in his [R. H. Stoddard's] career."

"Mr Stoddard has been for years recognized as the most distinguished American man of letters; his gifts have been manifold, and his usefulness of a high a varied order."