Letter from Frances to Louise- August 12, 1901

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Title

Letter from Frances to Louise- August 12, 1901

Description

Letter from Frances Parkinson Keyes to Louise Fuller Johnson

Creator

Frances Wheeler

Source

From the collection of Frances Parkinson Keyes Papers, Special Collections, University of Vermont Library.

Date

1901-08-12

Contributor

Caitlin Blake

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Text

July 22, 1918

Dear Mrs. Keyes:

Please forgive my long delay in writing to you in regard to the publication of "The Shield of Faith."
It had been read by four of us here and the four have trembled on the verge. In the end, however, we have been compelled to decide against it. I would say for the four that it has not quite enough substance to make sound war time literary merchandise, notwithstanding its very decided appeal.
I wish you could fin it possible to put all of these shorter things into a drawer, look it up and hive the key to some one ( to me, for instance), with instructions not to return it to you until a Treaty of Peace is signed. In the meantime, you could get on with a book of say not less than 70,000 or 80,000 words, which would, I believe, be something that we should undoubtedly want, if it contains the

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Date Added
April 16, 2014
Collection
Frances Parkinson Keyes Collection
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Citation
Frances Wheeler, “Letter from Frances to Louise- August 12, 1901,” Omeka@CTL, accessed December 5, 2024, http://libraryexhibits.uvm.edu/omeka/items/show/1554.
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