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<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>AMBROSE BIERCE </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Bierce Defends Protégé<BR><BR></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>(1842-1914). American satirist, caustic short story writer and journalist. His 12-volume <i>Collected Works</i> was published in 1909-12. Under the pen name of “Dod Grile,” he wrote for the London magazines <i>Fun</i> and <i>Figaro</i>. Returning to America in 1877, Bierce wrote for Hearst publications until his disappearance in Mexico in 1913 where he is presumed to have died. ALS, 1½pp, 8vo, Washington, DC, Dec 11, 1907. On Army and Navy Club letterhead to Mr. Dole, probably the editor and author Nathan Haskell Dole, expressing appreciation for his taking “<i>the trouble to let me know your good opinion of Sterling’s poem & I should like him to know it too; so if you do not forbid I shall send him your letter & I know of no one whose approval is better worth having than yours, and as Sterling’s head is ‘bloody but unbowed’; it will serve to soothe the ache of it to know that you don’t think much of the bludgeoners</i>...” Some toning, especially at edges, else VG. Bierce refers in this letter to his protégé poet <b>George Sterling</b> whose poem “The Wine of Wizardry” had been published in <i>Cosmopolitan</i> three months before. Having written such an extravagant introduction for his friend, Bierce garnered such a backlash of criticism that he felt compelled to publish a defense of his protégé in <i>Cosmopolitan</i> the month this letter was penned.</span></p>
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