The New York herald., 1922-08-13

pieces OF cheese / have ever heard
OF you are the biggest piece. 1
don't know why l waste this paper
on you, but will" Mr.. Irving
Bachelor, writing from the Adiron-
dacks, promises further contribu-
tion later. In the meantime he re-
calls the great number of persons
who have written him Offering 4
partnership in some great plan for
novel, and one man who noti-
fled him that he was the original
of a certain character in one of
Mr.. Bachelors novels and suggest
ing that the author should pay him
a part of the royalties.
MR.. BACHELLER further ex-
AsA plains: Il have had a trunk
full of letters, some of them very
curious. Unfortunately most of
them were burned in the fire that
destroyed my house. But there
are some at Winter Park, and
among them a delightful one from
Mark Twain never published.
When get back there. :" Mr..
Bachelors books have produced
some strange reactions. He recalls
that there was a poor Swedish
stable boy Of frail intellect living
in his neighborhood when "Eben
Holden" was published. Having
learned of the unusual success of
that book he threw up his job and
began to write the story of his life.
His notion was that IL Irving
Bachelor could make all that
money by putting a lot of words
together it was time that he got
busy. He did. He sat all summer
under a hot stable roof writing.
When rescued from the grip of the
muse he was a wreck. He had
achieved the belief that every one
was trying to poison him and pres
emily would pack up and leave his
place. Says Mr.. Bacheller: Il
have known others authors with a
like delusion."
MOST OF the letters from strang-
AH4 ers received by Fannie Hurst
are ''fearfully and wonderfully
made" She averages an easy fifty
a week. and often twice that num-
Der. Until they grew beyond her
she answered all these letters per-
sonally; now she has them an
swered, taking care Of the more
interesting and intelligent ones
herself. "They classify rather
easily" says Miss Hurst. There
is the letter of appreciation. The
crushing, the helpful, or the merely
unauthentic letter of criticism. The
quibbling letter, which usually
challenges the use of date or a
historical reference. (The sort OF
mind that detects the hero on the
moving picture screen wearing a
two stud shirt and a three stud
shirt in the same scene.) There
is, of course, in great hordes, the
aspiring writer letter. There is the
submitted manuscript, nine times
out of ten sent with insufficient
postage. There is the chronic let
ter from the fiend with a plot from,
real life,' who has not the time to
write it himself, but will submit
the idea on a fifty fifty basis"
THEN, Miss Hurst continues,
J. there is the letter from the
mother whose son always gets "A
in English; the autograph collec-
tors letter; book plate collector,
and the letter from the young man
who has seen your photograph
| (probably taken ten years before)
and would like to correspond OF
course there is the convict's letter
(I have followed many of them up
only to be invariably disappointed) !;
the bitter letter of unfulfilled as
pirations; the doctors letter, usu-
ally commenting upon some patho-
logical reference in a story: the let
ter from the lady in Iowa City, who