The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-12
THE ,1ErGGlIxG ror>a ArrHon
A singular MisunderstRndinr, Growing out
OF the MeLMrn of His Mnnmscrini.

II am having just nov. said the Siruggl ling
young author IAN unpleasant aud n most un
looked for experience: one that believe nobody
would ever nav" dreamed 81 anticipating II
spring lncld' nially cut 81 tn return e! my manu-
scripts from the various publishers Ia whom |
-, nd them Their return DOES not Of itself dis
turb me but It does II seems disturb the post
man on our hrcE who doesn't know what to-
make IT 1t, tn" coming io mo Il 81 many letters.
all in one handwriting, when imagine, he more
than suspects ~ my own
"Wh,n | FIST moved into this ucighburho"d
| used t. get the ordinary run 81 mail such rs
anybody with moe ~ less IN nds and aCQuaint
nnces might get and the poStmnu and | came
go know each other and he used 10 call me. when
We met In the street. bN my name How hc came
first I" associate me with my name don't know
but he knew IT. and had It right and did not for
get H. and whenever We met IN the street he
would always say Good morning, Mr.
Struggling
And that was always very pleasant Then
| began 10 e"t those envelopes, all addressed in
,h' same handwriting, every week. aud som"
times every day and sometimes two ~ three IN
y day Md ihrs" strange thick envelopes came.
not Tor u week. ~ month ~ NrHT. hu, tur years
\uW 1t never o,,ufr,d t. me that any body could
hc interested ~ tn, but me. hut one morning
when I met the Eastman. he was blowing his
whistle for q house that he Was JlSt turning IN
ahout tins. hu, "" u"Nt time met him II was
Just the same and pretty soon ~ WAS clear enough
that hr didn't want Ia So" me. and II WAS all IN
Sc,oun, 81 thu~" thick peculiar letters III the sam"
Handwriting from Sc many different places and
IN such numbers, aud that year after year lie
didn't know what L. make ~ II. and the fact was
that he WIS suspicious ~ MY letters aud 81 me
Maybe WAS u green goods man aud these were
letters from com" "nS. ~ something Of that sort
Now that was pretty tough. II WAS bad
enough Ia have the stuiI come back, but a good
deal worse h. have u thus made the cnuS" IT
gruundeSs suspicion on the part II n man with
whom my relations had been friendly but
what could de- ahpat IT. Nothing Cuuldu't
- ont a. HIM and SAY
So" here Old man this is nll right am an,
rs vet untccugUllcd author. and all these On.
vrlnpes simply runtain my rejected manuscripts
sent out Ia various publishers aud returned tu
me- IN III" s'amp" and addressed envelopes that
send for that purpose. That's all; they re all
right
Il couldn't You know, | couldn't go out and
say anything like that Ia him. Al could do
was TO tax" II phllu~uphlcay and make ia"
understandings that arc all the time happening
among people and that are best left alone 10 work
themselves ont IL their own explanation. nr per
har@ To b" explained when some really oppor'
tune occasion offers ur maybe never
hut the things that M" worth setting right
get set right, somehow, sometime" And that's
what will happen here and It's only question ~
time Some day those thick envelopes all in
on" handwriting will stop coming. and IN the
place pi them will begin to come thin ones, adj
dressed not all IN one hand, but in various hands
and th"sr envelopes one and another Will have
printed upon them. IN the left hand corner the
names oi publishers and then Will contain not
rejected manuscripts but cllr,kS II won't TAX"
lang for the poSman 10 tell this new current
II Will take him less time Vet 10 realize what II
means Some dry when meet him shall hear
him saying, with even more than his arcus,
toned chrcrincss, 3
Good morning MIR, Struggling, good morn.