Top-Notch Magazine
It always seems to me so futile to talk to people who do not know how to write stories about the way they should be written. I feel that when I attempt it, I speak a language they do not understand. I never have a feeling that I am being understood when I talk on the subject to amateurs. And experience tells me that I am not understood. I must ask you, therefore, to excuse me from holding forth on this very illusive topic.
Thanking you for the compliment you pay me in asking me to write something, I am
Yours very truly,
Henry W. Thomas,
Editor.
Top-Notch Magazine.
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New York City.