Item - The Editor's Sanctum

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Online Full Text:	Stanford Digital Repository
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 22 no. 33 — page 4
Subject / Tag:	Poem
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXII, no. 33, July 4, 1867 (Issue)
Author:	Hughes, R. Franklin
Date:	July 4, 1867
Edition Description:	[In preparing for the press the productions of contributors, so many emendations are found necessary that the editor, in a sudden fit of impatience, often throws into the waste-basket a sketch or poem which is deemed by the author to be the very acme of perfection. Of course, on learning of the rejection, the writer is displeased, and wonders why all mankind-of whom the editor is the representative in such matters-cannot perceive the concealed beauties of his composition. The author of the appended unique verses imparts some strong hints to those who have had their literary diamonds thrown into the oblivion of the waste-basket, and it is apparent that he has been at least a visitor in the editor's sanctum.-Ed.]
First Sentence:	This is the basket, broad and deep,