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October 25 1723

Miss Mildred Howells 57 Mount Vernon Street Boston, Mass.

Dear Miss Wyatt: I haven't seen James O'Donnell Bennetts essay on The Rise of Silas Lapham. but I should like to - Is there any way in which I can get a copy? I am ashamed to say I don't know what Taine said about the book - but if you remember my father's quoting from him, it is probably so. An old friend of my fathers, John Durand, lived in Paris and was a great friend of the Taines - Do you