(I’m awaiting your next installment)
Dear sir:
I have only had the pleasure of meeting you once—in your private car, with Thayer, when you were returning from your western trip—but I hope you will not consider me presuming if I take a moment of your valuable time to thank you for your masterpiece just begun in Everybody’s.
Such magic has not flowed from a pen for many a year.
Yours Truly
John O Powers
206 North 34th Street
Philadelphia
Des Moines, Iowa, 11/20, 1906
Mr. Thos. Lawson
Boston.
Dear Sir,
I like your story “Friday the Thirteenth.” For the information and added knowledge your previous writing has given me I thank you.
—“for the crow that is in him and the spurs that are on him to back up the crow with.” You certainly are a game and competant old fighter.
Sincerely, with best wishes
[Illegible signature: A. S. Goodman]