Show her work was published A story 0 a popular brook lyn writer hartford A kew york or rather a gentleman connected with a publishing firm in new york told recently this bory abent a now popular conin butor to tha lie with liis partners were seated in their private office one day about eix years ano w hen a gentleman entered lie ft as in great distress di itress and after some binl in words something like these it is with muli embarrassment ras that I 1 leavo c me to you I 1 leave an bic se however that I 1 hope you will abc acc pt my daughter is a beautiful ad talented talea ted girl bhe 10 my only child and she Is motherless I 1 have spoiled and petted her and 1 her has given me bereit unhappy beeg since it greatly affects her ahe ia now lying ill at my residence an fn brooklyn gitlia feier that we fear will terminate arlly this fever was brought on by excessive age grief aad disappointment because you have rejected her ahe refused to eat when ehe received the news of its failure to please you indulged in lean and crie and finally worked herself into a delirium it is deihle for me or her nurses or her physicians to control her she tays bhe will take foo 1 or medicine and will die if phe cannot see her story in print and as fan has always done what the threatened to do I 1 believe that I 1 shall lose my daug liter if you will not and adept it the poor fallow waa overwhelmed with mortification after this confenti sion but managed to brammar oat that heltai a rich man and would bo willing to pay the editors handsomely ii they would gratify the whim of his child and producing the manuscript begzad them to reread re read it and fee whether it did not have sud i chent merit to enable them to print it without seriously reflecting on their taic I 1 be editors of course re jetted thu bribe ajr being kind beaded men and valuing a life more than their leaders approbation con aber aion ty take the story my frieda having ascertained from the girls physicians that the fabers fa hers account waa absolutely true aie also le aimed the result of the intelligence upon the young woman who at once took a turn tor the better rap adly recovered and as scon i as possible bean to write again sending her next on to the san e publishers who found it eo goad that she is now one of their regular coil tribu ors |