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2 in the Atlantic then bring them out in a book. All on my own terms as to compensation, style, illustrations etc. as you
had given no such encouragement. but on the contrary had held one of the ten articles of the proposed book three years I thought
I could not be wrong in accepting Houghton Mifflins offer. You say that I agreed last summer to write for us some articles
consisting of the most important memoranda of your life as an explorer etc mentioning Aurora, Eagle-or Crow-attack. Auroral
salmon etc. In this you are mistaken. You wrote me before you started for Europe proposing this patch work, but I made no
reply to it. Instead of writing to Gilder I thought I had better wait your return I reply now that I have no liking no skill
for such high colored crazy quilt odds- -ends articles must therefore decline attempting them.