If none of these hit you right, let me know and I'll get busy again. But
I think "Man About Town" is about the right thing. It gives the city
idea without using the old hackneyed words.
I am going to write you a letter in a day or so "touchin' on and
appertainin' to" other matters and topics. I am still improving and
feeling pretty good. Colonel Bingham has put in a new ash-sifter and
expects you to come down and see that it works all right.
All send regards to you. You seem to have made quite a hit down here for
a Yankee.
Salutations and good wishes.
Yours,
S. P.
[This letter was found unfinished, among his papers after
his death. His publishers had discussed many times his writing
of a novel, but the following letter constitutes the only
record of his own opinions in the matter. The date is surely
1909 or 1910.]
My Dear Mr. Steger: My idea is to write the story of a man--an
individual, not a type--but a man who, at the same time, I want to
represent a "human nature type," if such a person could exist.
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