| Show MEAKIN PUBLISHING A NEW W. New York S. Salt Lake My Dear I am very sorry you have to be placed in that class of neglectful individuals who do not speak when spoken to I mean who do not answer answerable I thought I would send a few The Independent of January 5 is in front of and it seemed natural to read 3 communication to the Commercial Dear old Utah has a devil of a time of doesn't The old stuff seems to be are all serving the old and the boys who write seem to be well fed and well Our friend P. Freese is now in 1 Scotland making fame and and such is the success of liars and I enjoyed your paper I am not a student to any extent of so birds are not so interesting but I am a student of So I appreciate a good article on war or millions for but not a penny for the betterment of the peo- are starving in a land of but that cuts no We must not have war it doesn't hurt to see them I am aiming to in I have it in the printer's a book of It will be From the Four Quaint and Helpful as Compiled and Recited by Fraternal Poems for Fraternal It will be a fine little I have had very many requests for so many of the poems I I have responded to the Professor Stewart of the University of Utah was one of the first to suggest the idea to I shall have a very fine little I have permission from many authors and publishers to publish many of the finest poems ever published which I shall read to the I intend to go out and give my lectures the t of men if necessary and I guess it I have learned that people will not pay I shall sell my book for my I win send copy when off the friend what I wanted to tell you of particular was a pleasant incident happening I went down to call on Charles Scribner's Som if permission to publish Eugene Field's little Bless I had been refused by hence I called in and I pleased to say the permission was with the best wishes for my success coming with I recited a verse of the poem and won the heart of the gentleman I was talking I bade him good and halted a minute to make a note for foot of and the gentleman and in pleasant words do you know a man by the name of Volney S. Peet in Salt Lake when a man is away from such questions are delightfully I said indeed I V. S. well I guess He had my name kind mixed with and the man's name S. He said his wife's motto was your we had a very delightful and we sent our good wishes to you over the hills and plains to Salt Lake I was pleased to meet and so was he to meet Watson granted me permission to publish the poem with I told him I should write and this letter is evidence that I have kept my Should you write please say what you wish about me and my work Meakin and each of my circle join me in kindest love and best wishes to you and and to all within your We as and your AND JOHN P. |
