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illegible BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 4 PARK STREET BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT October 11,
1913 Dear Dr. Muir: Ever since we first published Stickeen, we have had the feeling that the children in our public schools
should have access to this wonderful story. We have reason to hope that it will prove to be a permanent educational classic
like Ouida's Dog of Flanders. We believe the time has now come when a school edition of this story could be issued without
materially affecting its trade sale. We are accordingly writing you to see whether it would be agreeable to you if we should
publish it in our Riverside Literature Series, in which, as you may know, we have already issued many of our choicest publications.
We are sending you under separate cover a catalogue of this Series. It has been our experience that the publication of a
school edition of a book of this kind does not at all interfere with the sale of the trade edition of the book, but on the
contrary, it often stimulates a larger sale of it through its usual channels. It is never safe to foretell exactly what effect
on the trade sale of a book the publication of a school edition will have; but, obviously, we should not suggest the school
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