"Thy Rocks and Rills" Robert E. Gilbert - September 1953 If

JCW <jcw9.TakeThisOut@duke.edu> wrote in
news:Pine.GSO.4.53.0308022300570.16767@godzilla1.acpub.duke.edu:

 > I just read PKD's mention of this story in a 1958 letter to James
 > Blish. Anyone know if it's been reprinted anywhere / has anyone
 > read it? I figure since PKD called it an example of "genius" in
 > the field, it's probably either pretty good or really bad, but I'm
 > curious either way.
 >

No, I've never read it, nor even heard of it. (BTW, the title is from
stanza 2 of "My country 'tis of thee", which I found out by doing some
googling).

It's apparently not been anthologized very much -- it isn't mentioned
in google very often, except in TOC pages such as
<http://isfdb.tamu.edu/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?WOFIFSEP1953>.

PKD had a story ("The Trouble with Bubbles") appearing in that issue of
_If_, and James Blish had the soon-to-be well-known "A Case of
Conscience" as a novella in the same issue. Could the letter you
mention be Dick saying, "Now, the story that was best in the September
issue, where we both had pieces, was really..." or something like that?
Where is the letter to be found, anyway?

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Mike Rey<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->