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us whether you have in mind any other papers suitable for Scribner. In fact we should be glad to learn what are your enthusiasms
and whether you have time to put them on paper. We have thought of a paper on Farm Life in California the picturesque side
of it but do not know whether you would write spontaneously of the subject. As our best work is unsolicited, we hesitate about
naming subjects, but trust that, if our overtures? are welcome to you, you will frankly write us, suggesting the topics that
are nearest your heart. We are indeed in margin: Most sincerely yours, Eds. Scribner s Monthly