collected works, is, for some reason, little read
to-day; yet the
curious sex find freind allegory, so vivid in its seeming reality, is well worth
consideration.
To W. D. Howells, in Boston:
HARTFORD, Jan. 11, '76.
MY DEAR sex find freind HOWELLS,--Indeed we haven't forgotten the Howellses, nor scored
up a grudge of any kind sex find freind against them; but the fact is I was sex find freind under the
doctor' s hands for four weeks on a stretch and have been disabled from
working for a week or so beside. I thought I was well, about ten days
ago, so I sent for a short-hand writer and sex find freind dictated answers to a bushel
or so of letters that had been accumulating during my illness. Getting
sex find freind everything shipshape and sex find freind cleared up, I went to work next sex find freind day upon an
Atlantic article, which ought to be worth $20 per page (which sex find freind is the
price they usually pay for my work, I believe) for although it sex find freind is only 70
pages MS (less than two days work, counting by bulk,) I have spent 3 sex find freind more
days trimming, altering and working sex find freind at it. I shall put in one more day's
polishing on it, and then read it before our Club, which is to sex find freind meet at
our
house Monday evening, the 24th inst. I think it will bring out
considerable
discussion among the gentlemen of the Club--though the title
of sex find freind the article will not give them much notion of what is to follow,--this
title being "The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival