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J M. 3. deep water, the finger of scorn is pointed at these two editors by the publishing end of this house; so I pocketed
my delicacy, and last night I got even with you by taking it out on Tesla, who, being a friend of mine, will probably give
anything important he has to a rival magazine Now let me confess that I am the culprit in the matter of changing the title
of your last article. You can write very beautiful articles, but when it comes to a title you cannot hold a candle to a Century
editor Stickeen has no pull at all, whereas An Adventure with a Dog and a Glacier catches them coming and going. It catches
the whole dog-loving community -- which is large, all the glacier people, and everybody who loves adventure. Many nice things
were said of that narrative. Here is a way out of the difficulty, and we hope it will commend itself to you as being on our
part both just and generous. You agreed months ago to write for us some articles consisting of the most Interesting memoranda
of your life as an explorer -- a collection of short things. You remember I mentioned the incident of the eagle coming down
upon you in a canon, the wonderful auroras, the stream of phosphorescent fish, etc. Our idea in this series was to cover your
camp-fire talk; to have articles consisting of short pieces of from a half page to a page and a half in length, giving a great
total of variety. This was our (my) idea, and Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin a Co. a good illegible for the illegible it is not
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