4 hand-written pages, plus envelope
Media: black ink
This is not a letter, and you must not hold it against me that I seem to be writing out of turn! This is only a note. I want to tell you something before I forget. (You and I must be awfully careful about such things).
Well — about stories & poems from 1901 to 1914 not collected in books:
Around 1906-07 the Outing Magazine published stories of mine with illustrations by Schoonover, The Epic Minded Scot, The Dead Man's Dog, The Brutal Fact, the latter being a first telling of the a great editor of his day. He sent me down the Missouri River to write eight articles on the trip. (This is
The River and I.)
Then do you know To a Hat Pin, published in Truth
(a high-class magazine) along about 1902? (Lucile, this one is a lark!! It was all about the girl with the long golden hair who lived across the street — Edith Perdel! We used to go on skating parties. Bitter cold nights.
And have you seen The Tiger's Lust, a long short story published in the old Philadelphia that one, Lucile, you aint seen nuttin' yet." (It bought my mother's false teeth — her first.)
There was an obscure but hopeful little magazine along about 1903-04-05 that published a sketch of mine, called The Hot Wind, a memory of my experience in Kansas when I was
The Wind God's Wooing? This was printed in colors on our Bancroft Blade press. Spenserian stanzas, I remember — wow!!
I enclose the letter from old Rex's nephew! The high prairie
Rex was delighted over his correspondence with you.