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                                                                           President and Managing Director                                 Frederick C. Clift  image of building
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Dear Charles.

 I am writing you when I am very tired, having, like Jaeah, been

wrestling all morning with the angels. I have been in a fever of ?..ting.

I have been thinking of your project - the stai?. Beware only of this dear friend. I know so well the

dailies minds of iditars, men who handle exprdisate matter etc. One gets started on this arad. I don't want to be discouraging. I remember only my own early experiences. Rvis freng? for example. Out of the whole series of stories I got, for serial right say $85.. A year's work. As a book I also had much trouble finding a publisher. Years later I saw?, for example, a article