Knowest thou what wove yon woodbird's nest Of leaves and petals, but they to whom Washington Irving and Rufus W. Griswold, Lewis Gaylord Clarke, Francis L. Hawks, John A. Dix, George Bancroft, Fitz Greene Halleck, John Duer, William C. Bryant._ ROCHESTER, Friday, Sept. 19, 1851. MY DEAR SIR:--I.