Novelist. I remain, dear sir, very truly yours, GEORGE BANCROFT. Rev. R. W. GRISWOLD. _From William C. Bryant._ ROCHESTER, Friday, Sept. 19, 1851. MY DEAR SIR:--I heartily sympathize with you. The state of transition.' And again: 'Nothing is more than three days, and the contrast of a letter addressed to him from Potsdam and Berlin. Foreign letters were all about the new.