Ambrose Bierce, Washington, D.C., to "Dear Neale" [ Walter Neale]

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3 p. on 1 l.

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[returns the proofs of volume seven of The Devil's Dictionary, approves of Neale's announcement of books undertaken in 1910, "A pretty ambitious project. They go a long way toward making my dream come true, namely, that you are to be `the foremost publisher in America,'" and rejoices that he has only three and a half volumes of page proofs yet to read, with a newsclipping about the growth of thin paper used in bookmaking glued on the third page below Bierce's signature], formerly tipped in along with a typed transcript in the front of a copy of In the Midst of Lifeby Ambrose Bierce(1898)

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Names:

Ambrose Bierce
Walter Neale

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