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J. M. 2. go beautifully into a volume of this kind let me urge you to sit down as soon as you can and write out two or three
more, and let us print them first in The Century and then make a book of them next summer for the fall trade. The public is
in a mood to buy books now, and is likely to be for some time, so that it would be advantageous to you to make such a volume
of short tales. It seems to me that the never failing stream would make another good story, a description of your night on
Shasta another, the river full of phosphorescent fish a third, and the shifting aurora a fourth. My idea would be to have
nature and life in about equal proportions. There is a good deal of Knack about making a book, and it is well to strike several
notes. I do not know Bliss Perry, the new editor of The Atlantic, but I have no doubt that he is a man of good literary taste.
Faithfully yours, R. U. Johnson in margin: Seton? illegible is back again. How do you like his Grizzly ? Doesn't it make
you illegible to write? Go to Write Thou will never have a better day. 02439