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I send you by this mail copy of paper entitled "Family Fiction", containing story "How Dasdy Came Through. It is a poor sketchy sort of affair, and it is quite possiblydisguiseit in the abstract, and still more when it is from a contemporary writer, and that writer myself.
Kindly pursue the course you suggested, and tell me what you think. If you conclude it is a plagiarism, consider it your own discovery and do as you like about it. If you think it merely a coincidence, and perhaps hardly that, my lips are sealed on the subject. To say anything would be much ado about nothing, perhaps, in any event, for I don't think much of the story in either form.
Has the Open Letter Club published another pamphlet? I must ask a little longer indulgence for my article on Southern schools; the subject is not likely to become untimely for some years to come.
P.S. Absence from the city has prevented my sending you this paper sooner—