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Show Love Letters as Inspiration. Dr. Arthur Holmes, who advocates the exchange of love letters between students as a means of acquiring the art of composition, might point to Samuel Richardson as a proof of the efficacy of his method. Richardson began by acting as scribe for a number num-ber of young women, for whose correspondence corre-spondence with their sweethearts he frequently supplied not only the words, but the sentiments. His reputation for this kind of composition led a firm of printers to propose that he should prepare a "complete letter writer" for the use of "those country readers who cannot Indite for themselves." them-selves." Two or three of the epistles written for this purpose suggested a separate story, "and thence." in Richardson's Rich-ardson's own phrase, "sprang 'Pamela.' 'Pa-mela.' " |