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Please tell Carrie Sherwood3 that my new story4 will begin in the January number of The
Forum5, out about December 20th6, and will run
for about six numbers. It has to be cut about
one-third for the magazine, so if there's anything you don't understand you will
find it accounted for later, in the book.
The book won't be out until next fall,
probably.7
Please send this letter to Roscoe8 and
Meta9, as I want them a to read my new story aloud to their daughters10, and I do hope they
will all like it. I have long wanted to write a story of this kind for my nieces and
nephews. But they must read the book, too, for there will be a lot in that that is
not in the serial. I awfully want Virginia and the twins to like it. It's a little
like Swiss Family Robinson11!