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gratefully printed them. Nothing out of Russian fiction could give one more absolutely the sense of truth in the nature of and conditioning of your people in The Pursuit of Happiness, especially that selfish brute beast of a Mrs. Ricker. "But, what the deuce?" as one of your people says in True Love. We must take editors as we find them, and Alden is a most faithful and able one. I doubt if you would have your effect on Harper's. I had thought of trying your stories with the Atlantic unknown to you, but I have scarcely the right, and I could not bear another heartbreak. Why do you break with McClure? I