The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-12
THE ,1ErGGlING ror>a ArrHon
singular Misunderstandinr, Growing out
OF the Meimrn of His Mnnmsnrint.

Il am having just nov. said the Struggling
young author AN unpleasant aud n most un
looked Tor experience: one that believe nobody
would ever nav" dreamed "f anticipating II
spring lncld' ntally cut IT tn return e! my manu-
SCRIPTS from the various publishers To- whom |
sind them Their return DOES not. of itself dis
turb me but II does II seems disturb the post
man on Uur hrcE Who doesn't know what To-
make If It, the coming &" me Il 50 many letters.
all in one Handwriting. when imnginn he more
tnau suspects ~ my own
"Wh,n FIST moved into this ncighburhoh
| used t" get the ordinary run Of mail such rs
anybody with moe ~ less I'm nds and acquainr
ances might got and the postmnn and | came
90 know each other and he used To call me when
~ met in the street. hN my name How he came
FIRST {" associate me with my name don't know.
but he knew IT, and had It right, and did not for
get a. and Whenever We met IN the street he
would always say Good morning, Mr.
Struggling
And tina, was always very pleasant Then
I b"gan t." get those envelopes all addressed In
tn sane Handwriting. every week, aud some
Tunes every day and sometimes two ~ three IN
y day Md these strange thick envelopes came
not Tor week, ~ month ~ year bus for year,
Vow II never u,,ufr,d e. me that any body could
be- interested IN TN, but me, hut uu" morning
when I met the Eastman. he was blowing his
whistle for house that he was Just turning IN
ht and he didn't $50 me didn't think anything
about tins, hut u" u"Nt time | met him n
lII~t the same. and pretty soon u WAS clear enough
that he d,iUt want Ia 81" me. and II was all un
account 81 these thick peculiar letters III the sam"
handWri'ins from SCI many different places and
IN such numbers, and that year after year lie
didn't know what {" make ~ H. and the fact was
that h" WIS suspicious ~ my letters aud IL me-
Maybe was n green goods man aud these
letters from cunl' Uns. ~ something ui that sort
Now that VAS pretty tough. II was bad
enough tu have the suiI come back, but good
deal worse h. have u thus made the cause II
gruuudless suspicion ON the part II n man with
whom my relations had been friendly But
what could de- ahuut IT. Nothing | couldn't
~ ont IL him and say
" Sc" her" old man tins Is NIL right am an.
rs yet untcc"Cullrd author. and all these On
vclupes simply ruutHin my rejected manuscripts
sent out Ia various publishers ana returned io
M" IN the STAMPED and addressed envelopes that
! send for that purpose That's all. they re- all
right
4 couldn't You know | couldn't go out and
say anything like that L. him Al ! could do
was To- take 1t philu~uphIcally. and make the
understandings that HTC all the time happening
among people and that are best left alone: Ia work
themselves ont 10 their own explanation, ur per
hapS 10 he explained when some really oppur-
tune occasion offers ur mayb" never
But the things that M" worth setting right
get set right somehow, Sometime. Nnd mats
what will happen here; and it's nnlS question ~
time some day those thick envelopes all III
on" handwriting will stop coming; and IN the
place pf them will begin To- come thin ones. adj.
dressed not all IN one hand but in various hands:
printed upon them. IN the left hand corner the
names ni publishers, Hnd then will contain not
r"lcrtrd manuscripts but ch'"kS II won't take
long for the pustman To- tell this new current
means Some dry when meet him shall hear
HIM saying, with even more than his a"cus,
toned ChrcTincSs. r
Good morning MIR, Struggling, good morn.
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