“DEAR SIR AND FRIEND,
“After reading your splendid edition, _When it was Dark_, I
take this manner in addressing. The book impressed me very
greatly from start to finish, and it always will be henceforth
a great pleasure, and I am sure a great help, to read your
publications. We greatly need in this world to-day good strong
men who will set forth their thoughts in a fearless manner.
This is in a very large measure the way the book appealed to
me.
“It is with a great deal of sincere pleasure I note in the----
Magazine (which publication is in our home) for a coming issue
the beginning of one of Guy Thorne’s stories. The writer is a
young man of twenty years and a Methodist, and presume I am
taking up too much of a good man’s time. But I might say my
idea in writing was to convey from a Canadian my thanks for the
good which I have received, and many others in our city, from
the reading of this one work.
“Wishing you every success in your work,
“Yours sincerely.”