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Autographed Letter Signed.

Autographed Letter Signed.

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Autographed Letter Signed.

by Van Dyke, Henry

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n.p. (NY), Henry Van Dyke, November 9, 1899, first edition.. One sheet folded to make four pages, written to the Corresponding Editor of The Youth's Companion, Van Dyke, an American author and clergyman, offers his writing services to the periodical, "I should like/to send a story to the/Youth's Companion, because/I think it's a first-rate/paper, and because its/audience is (?) that a/man ought to be glad/to speak to./There are certain dif-/ficulties in the way./1. I am not a regular/writer of stories. They come/to me very slowly, and/capriciously. They take/their own time and their/own way. Until I know/them, I can't tell them./And when I know them/I don't dare to change/them. This makes my/work immensely (?) un-/certain./2. The next four stories/that come along are/already promised, if/they are (?). It is/not likely that more/than four will drop/in this winter./3. The price that is/paid for one of these/stories is $500, -- long/or short," he adds that if the difficulties can be overcome he would furnish a story the next spring or summer, signed and dated in full. One small scrape to first page, not affecting the text, else very good indeed.

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Bookseller
James M. Dourgarian, Bookman US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
JD31421
Title
Autographed Letter Signed.
Author
Van Dyke, Henry
Book Condition
Used
Publisher
n.p. (NY), Henry Van Dyke, November 9, 1899, first edition.

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James M. Dourgarian, Bookman

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