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Telephone, 2377 Main Cable Address, Gerard-Chicago INTERNATIONAL PRESS BUREAU W. G. CHAPMAN, Manager 84-86 LA SALLE STREET
CHICAGO NEWSPAPER FEATURES PUBLISHERS' AND AUTHORS' AGENTS 2. If this idea appeals favorably to you I should be
very happy to discuss it with you in greater detail. The best form such a series should take, I believe, would be twelve papers
of about 2,000 words each, devoted to the human interest of the woods, fields, waters and their denizens--not a scientific
dissertation, but a record of your observations presented in a manner that would appeal to and be understood by the average
city dweller who has but little opportunity to study Nature at first hand. I am prompted to write you in this connection
after perusing a review of your book, STICKEEN , which I am anxious to read at the first opportunity. Trusting that the foregoing
will appeal to you in some measure, and that I may be favored with an expression at your convenience, believe me to be,
Yours very sincerely, illegible Manager illegible Daily Service of Humor by Great American Humorists Daily Short Story
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