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The Burlington 10 W. 30th st., Janu'y 6, 1906.

Dear Miss Wyatt: I found Mr. Alden the other day brooding dubiously over your longer story, having already made up his mind against the shorter. I told you of our family joy? with the others and without having any great pleasure in the unclear I am sorrowfully transmitting them both to you. I can understand why Alden should not find them the Harpers kind of story, while I need not say that if I had been an editor I should have gladly and