I think my
narrative, with some collateral matter I should introduce, would take up
a reasonable space in about a dozen numbers of the Oceanic Miscellany.
I cannot listen to your proposal about the engraving. If you accept my
offer to write out, in the form of a story, the incidents of real
life to which I have referred, we will arrange the terms at a private
interview. I consider the first day of a month as unobjectionable as any
other in the same month, as a time for receiving payment of any sum that
may be due me under the proposed contract.
Yours truly.
CONFIDENTIAL EDITOR OF THE OCEANIC MISCELLANY TO THE AUTHOR.
MY DEAR PROF.,--
We have had lots of bob-tail stories,--docked short in from one to three
months. Can't you give us a switch-tail one, that will hang on so as
to touch next December? Something imaginary, based on your
recollections,--the incidents of the War of 1812, for instance;--but, at
any rate, a regular "to be continued" "_piece de resistance_"
Yours ever.
THE AUTHOR TO THE CONFIDENTIAL EDITOR.
MY DEAR ED.,--
I really wouldn't undertake to tell an "imaginary" story, or to write
a romance, or anything of the kind.
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