The following are fac-similes of a few of the letters received by the author during the serial publication of “Friday, the Thirteenth.”
RESIDENCE OF
THE PAULIST FATHERS
2158 PINE STREET
San Francisco, CA 21 October 1906
My Dear Mr. Lawson
Kindly allow one of your countless admirers to express his extreme gratification with the announcement that you will add fiction to your distinguished literary achievements. Your gifts as a writer are so wonderful and fascinating that I look forward eagerly to your work in this new field—and I pray God to prosper you in all good.
Sincerely,
John Marus Haudly
70 Kirkland St., Cambridge
Dec. 26, 1906.
Mr. T. W. Lawson,
Boston, Mass.