The Army and
Navy Club,
Washington, D. C.,
January 27,
1907.
Dear George,
I suppose I owe you letters and letters—but you don't particularly like to write letters yourself, so you'll understand.
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Hanging before me is a water-color of a bit of Carmel Beach, by Chris Jorgensen, for which I blew in fifty dollars the other day. He had a fine exhibition of his Californian work here. I wanted to buy it all, but compromised with my desire by buying what I could. The picture has a sentimental value to me, apart from its artistic.
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I am to see Neale in a few days and shall try to learn definitely when his magazine is to come out—if he knows. If he does not I'll withdraw your poem. Next month he is to republish "The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter," with a new preface which somebody will not relish. I'll send you a copy. The Howes book is on its travels among the publishers, and so, doubtless, will long continue.
Sincerely yours, Ambrose Bierce.
The Army and
Navy Club,
Washington, D. C.,
February 5,
1907.