Part 4 (1/2)
NEW YORK--1890
DEAR CHAS:
Brisbane has suggested to me that the Bradley story would lead anyone to suppose that s were spent in the boudoirs of the horizontales of 34th Street and has scared me somewhat in consequence
If it strikes you and Dad the same way don't show it to Mother Dadstory which hasto suppose that a man must have an intimate acquaintance hatever he writes of inti people, for instance, would not believe that I had written the ”Traver's Only Ride” story because they knew I did not hunt Don't either you or Dad make any mistake about this
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NEW YORK--1890
DEAR FAMILY:
Today has been 'sperher” into Gerraph fro, which was en” story caes of the Scribner's, which at ten dollars a page ought to be 90 Pretty good pay for three weeks' work, and it is a good story Then at twelve a younginto the office, stuck his card down on the desk and said, ”I am S S McClure I have sent my London representative to Berlin and e of ht to rattle me he was veryyour New York representative back and sendas I a Sun”
”Edmund Gosse is my London representative,” he said; ”you can have the same work here Come out and take lunch” I said, ”Thank you, I can't; I'll see you on Tuesday”
”All right,” he said ”I'll come for you Think of what I say I'll et you You won't have anything to do but ask people to write novels and edit them I'll send you abroad later if you don't like New York Can you write any children's stories for me?”
”No,” I said, ”see you Tuesday”
This is a verbal report of all and everything that was said I consider it a curious interview It will raise o
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NEW YORK--1890
DEAR FAMILY:
The ht of it So I told hiht I was satisfied where I was, and that the 75 he offered et 50 about the first of October, which is plenty and enough for a young ood to his folks I cannot do better than stay where I am, for it is understood between Brisbane and Laffan that in the event of the for into politics I shall take his place, which will suit very well until so better turns up Then there is the chance of White's co to Lunnon, which would please me now more for what I think I could make of it than what I think others have one to McClure I would have been shelved and side-tracked, and I a every day Brisbane and I have had our first serious difficulty over Mrs R----, who is staying with Mrs ”Bill” There is at present the most desperate rivalry, and we discuss each other's chances with great anger He counts on his transcontinental knowledge, but my short stories hit very hard, and he is not in it when I sing ”Thy Face Will Lead Me On” and ”When Kerrigan Struck High C” She has a fatal fondness for Sullivan, which is most unfortunate, as Brisbane can and does tell her about him by the half hour Yesterday we both tried to i off the horses and ourselves Brisbane cah I came off quickest, for my horse put his foot in a hole and went down on his knees, while I went over his head like the White Knight in ”Alice” I would think nothing of sliding off a roof now But I rey suit and having it coht, and, while Brisbane is chasing over town for photographs of Sullivan, I a books of verses of which she seeoing to marry her We don't knohich She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-inforood deal to keep her in diaave her, but she wants more
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NEW YORK--1890
DEAR MOTHER (LATE MA):
I am well and with lots to do I went up to see Hopper the other night, which was the first time in three oing hoassy and dusty place that I love as irls look so pretty and bold lying around on the sets, and thecheeks and lips They were very glad to see reat fuss Then I've been to see Carmencita dance, which I enjoyed re's short stories, and I think it is disgusting that a boy like that should write such stories He hasn't left hiets old He reminds me of Bret Harte and not a bit of Stevenson, to wholad you liked the lady in mid-air story so much, but it wasn't a bit necessary to add the MORAL fro up before I had read two lines; and a very good ree heartily But, of course, you know it is not a new idea to ood and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date I went to the Brooklyn Handicap race yesterday It is one of the three biggest races of the year, and a man stood in front of me in the paddock in a white hat Another ”