Ananias

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Here's your blasted article; hope it's in time for the April issue of your mag. It is, if you don't ask me another re-write, which I'm damned if I'll give you. I've been handing out this line longer than you have, and I ought to know what that class of readers wants.

Think "Ananias" would be a good title, but you won't, of course. You've changed the title of every article I've sent you. As one editor to another, is that nice?

When are you going to send that article you promised for my Sunday page? I don't want to have to fill the holes with more stories about 2-headed chickens!

Give me a ring next time you get down to New York. So long,

Walt

TRUTH, like a gem, has many faces; you do not know it until you have looked at them all. More and still more books on the late war between the Confederacy and the Alliance roll from the presses; if I presume to add further printed matter to this vast and growing pile, it is in the hope of providing one more facet, unique if small, to the gem of truth.

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