The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-13
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Three Years Experience Of Literary Life
Described with Amazing CnndOr.

the revised Kipling story was Of great inter-
est to me. Three years ago / enga ged In lit
erature and ] must say I have had some very
remarkable experiences since that time. My
maiden manuscript was a slang lexicon and
o dissertation on the yegs species OF v~sgrant.
TIT dictionary compores favorably with
Barrere and Leland's Dictionary Of Slang.
Jargon and Cant" and I have reasons for
believing the treatise is the best ever written
on that subject. IL must be the best. az IL Is
the only work OF it's kind in existence. l
sent this product sround to more than twenty
magazines and newspapers and. OF course. 1t
wasn't accepted. Here is what EUerybody's
Magazine said REGARDING 1t: You have in this
manuscript a solid. serious and interesting
story about tramps. but we have decided
after consultation that we do not care to enter
on that subject now. IL seems to us you
ought TO make something more elaborate
than a single article. You ought to write at
least three. or possibly six. and then try to
place them. We would advise you. however.
not to go to work at writing them until you
had strong encouragement that when they
were finished some magazine would be inter-
ested In them"
Discouraged at my failure to sell this
unique and valuable work. I finally offered 1t
TO a big newspaper In st. Louis and they
contrived to lose" It. My next stop was
Chicago. where | submitted II to The World
To-doy magazine. Or. Smaller Mathews Is
the editor. In all OF my stormy career" /
never saw an editor wax so enthusiastic over
a piece OF literary property--before he knew
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literally rip the manuscript into ribbons be-
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when ne emerEes rom tue Tray ne Is certain
to be hoTs lie combat After this calamity
came the close Of my career with that ma ga
-ina Uhon 7 bad 70 ,hraa,en one ~ tho two
Hme. Nnen ! uHu !" VI w
IN order 10 coliect so" Whlcn ms owed me.
Through another introduction about that
period was commissioned 10 writsa an article
on Grants for the ladies' Home Journal
on vaxIa"'1 - wy. -.
] did so. Ihey Kept the manuscript q year
and then returned it.
In all Of this tima. however. Intellectual
.nd hnarr -,,rro,;o, 80 nnr.ninr,
munger aho pouhS n'a'NatUVn Nere purSuHlg
me neck and neck. ' vas living from hand
20 mouth with the latter playing an under
st,Idy's part. or. az Charles Dickens would
- -h.tuonr rothIng 20 40, ard inst hoIS
say between nothIns 70 eao anu lusI nail
enough. l had learned the art OF living
on nothing" long before ! became one Of
-Apollo,s sons = and was thArafors well
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EQUIPPED LOT q long iHeIaTy struggle' ouo l
learned also A number OF new facts never
dreamed OF before which I believe are very
vaI,abIa 70 SCIENCE Anvwav Iu give ona -,
,bsrn fo, vh,t Il "a wortb For $780,
thSln lor what " U "oIVH' TOT instance l
know that IL Is not always advisable to follow
the Gladstonian theory Of thoro ugh masti-
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