I'm pained by your comments on my book. I always feel that way when
praised--"just plunged in a gulf of dark despair" to think that I took
no more trouble to make the commendation truer. I shall try harder
with the Howes book.
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I can't supply the missing link between pages 101 and 102 of the "Word
Book," having destroyed the copy and proofs. Supply it yourself.
You err: the book is getting me a little glory, but that will be
all--it will have no sale, for it has no slang, no "dialect" and no
grinning through a horse-collar. By the, way, please send me any
"notices" of it that you may chance to see out there.
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I've done a ghost story for the January "Cosmopolitan," which I think
pretty well of. That's all I've done for more than two months.