Title	Appreciation of James Whitcomb Riley by Alice French - aka Octave Thanet
Description	Typewritten comments by Alice French (Octave Thanet) on printed form soliciting personal comments about James W. Riley for inclusion in special issue of The Writer.
Creator	Alice French (1850-1934) aka Octave Thanet
Date.Original	1915-09
Subject	Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916 -- Appreciation.
Language	English
Item Type	text
Technical Metadata	EPSON Expression 10000 at 300 ppi
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Source	Indiana State Library
Collection Name	Indiana State Library Treasures
Item ID	ISL-JWRiley-325.tif
Relation	James Whitcomb Riley Collection
Transcript	Sep 13 1915 The October number of THE WRITER will be a Riley Appreciation Number, containing brief appreciations of Mr. Riley by the leading American authors. Will you kindly write a paragraph of this kind on this sheet, and mail it as soon as convenient in the envelope enclosed? No poet has ever come so close to the heart of the earth-tiller as Mr. Riley; and we Americans are still a nation of earth-tillers; therefore he is and he is like to remain the best loved of all our poets; a true poet and a true man. Bless him! Alice French (Octave Thanet)