Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — Bryant’s Early Pecuniary Rewards. [ARTICLE]

Bryant’s Early Pecuniary Rewards.

It is amusing to know how small were the pecuniary rewards of Bryant’s literary labors, whatever may have been the fame they brought him. Two dollars a poem was the price that he named, and he seemed to be abundantly satisfied, with the terms. A gentleman met him in New York many years after, and said to him, “I have Just bought the earliest edition of your poems, and gave ?20 for It" “More, by a long shot," replied the poet, “than I received for writing the whole work." —Century. Conscience Is one of those burglars that work* best In solitude and dark* QMS.